Design discovery: exhibitors revealed!
The trade fair has announced their 2018 participants exhibiting during Dubai Design Week.
A key event of the festival, Downtown Design will present its most diverse and ambitious showcase to date, featuring over 175 exhibiting brands including 40 regional designers. New fair features will include bespoke café concepts, a pop-up retail destination, indoor landscapes and large-scale installations on the fair’s waterfront terrace.
With a spotlight on the region’s design talent, Downtown Design’s new fair section ‘Downtown Editions’ will present bespoke and limited-edition design works from across the world, for professional as well as public visitors to discover, purchase and commission.
Click here to register and discover all of the fair’s exhibitors:
www.downtowndesign.com / www.dubaidesignweek.ae
Bene Thomas Feichtner
Budell Wing chair by NAKKASH
Eleda by Nahoor
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