Clerkenwell Design Week

Clerkenwell Design Week runs on 25-27 May 2027 at Clerkenwell exhibition venues and showrooms, London. It is for architects, interior designers, specifiers and decision-makers in commercial interiors.

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Visitors (2026)

45,319

Exhibitors (2026)

Over 500

How often

Every year

Dates

25–27 May 2027

Official show website (opens in a new tab) clerkenwelldesignweek.com

At Clerkenwell Design Week you can see commercial interiors products across curated exhibition venues, local brand showrooms, installations and a talks series, held across the EC1 district of central London. This annual three-day design festival is presented by the organiser as a trade event for commercial interiors, bringing architects, interior designers and specifiers together with manufacturers and newer brands. It sits in our design and interiors trade show listings and among trade shows in London.

Clerkenwell Design Week 2027

You can visit free from Tuesday 25 May to Thursday 27 May 2027, though every visitor needs a registered badge to get into the exhibition venues and showroom events. Exhibition venues open 10:00 to 18:00 on Tuesday, 10:00 to 21:00 on Wednesday and 10:00 to 17:00 on Thursday, while each showroom sets its own hours. You collect your badge and a showroom map at Farringdon station, and the CDW app, introduced in 2026, carries an interactive map of the festival route.

Product areas and venues

You can head straight to the products you specify, as each exhibition venue has its own focus. Exhibitors make products for commercial interiors, grouped by the organiser into surfaces, bathrooms, lighting, finishes, acoustic products, contract furniture, workplace, and architectural hardware. Recent editions have included:

• Light, international lighting brands in the underground House of Detention, a former Victorian prison
• Commercial Design in the Park and Commercial Interiors on the Green, an outdoor showcase under canopy, both bringing together contract furniture and surface brands
• Interior Hardware, a pavilion on St John’s Square for architectural hardware brands
• Detail & Finishes, luxury products at The Order of St John
• British Collection in St James’s Church, plus German, Austrian, Italian, Spanish and Norwegian collections
• Ceramics of Italy, tile and porcelain brands shown by the Italian Trade Agency with the Ceramics Association
• Workplace at Goldsmiths’ and Workplace on the Square, for office and commercial interiors
• The Luxury Edit at Haberdashers’ Hall, Future Talent at The Charterhouse, and Material Source Studio on Saffron Hill

For step-free access, note that the St James’s Church venue has no disabled access, and the Crypt at The Order of St John has limited access because parts of it date from the 12th century.

Talks, showroom events and fringe

You get talks, launches and studio visits beyond the venues. Conversations at Clerkenwell, the official talks series curated by PR and brand consultant Katie Richardson, is held at the Church of Design in St Bartholomew the Great, with tickets at £9 per person per session booked through the app. More than 180 local showrooms host their own programme of product launches, breakfasts, workshops and parties, and a fringe programme sees local practices open their studios. Restaurants and bars around EC1 offer deals to festival visitors.

Who visits

If you exhibit, you reach an audience the organiser says was 76% architects and designers in 2026, out of 45,319 visitors, with average visitor spending power put at £1.72m. Practices it names among attendees include Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Gensler, Heatherwick Studio and AHMM, alongside hospitality and retail clients such as IHG Hotels & Resorts, Virgin Voyages, Selfridges and John Lewis.

Show history

You can see the festival grow from 7 exhibition venues in 2019 to 20 in 2026. It marked its 15th anniversary in 2026, having held its tenth edition in 2019. Figures for past editions from the official site:

Exhibiting

You can choose how to take part, through an exhibition venue, a showroom or a sponsorship, and you apply through the exhibitor enquiry form on the official site. The organiser lists more than 500 exhibiting companies, over 42 international media partners and design bodies including BIID, SBID and the Design Council among its partners. It also runs the CDW Awards. Our guides to choosing your first UK trade show and building an exhibition budget cover the planning side.

Other interiors shows

You can plan other sector visits too. Design Festival North Leeds and Furniture Component Expo in Telford both open on 10 March 2027, and HIX Europe is at Excel London from 25 November 2026. More events appear in our UK show listings.

Visitor services

You do not have to carry your bags around, as Stasher stores them for £6 per bag including insurance, booked online. Hotel Planner acts as the official hotel partner.

Source: clerkenwelldesignweek.com/visiting-information, clerkenwelldesignweek.com/exhibiting-information, clerkenwelldesignweek.com/photo-gallery, clerkenwelldesignweek.com