Decorex 2025: Your Insider Guide
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Decorex 2025 returns to Olympia, London, 12–15 October, promising four days filled with design, craftsmanship, and conversation. This year, themes of local craft, sustainability, heritage, and personal storytelling run through the programme, making it more than just an exhibition — it’s a place where the future of UK interior design is shaped. Decorex brings together over 280 curated brands, giving attendees the chance to see the latest collections, engage with the designers and makers behind them, and experience firsthand the creativity and innovation shaping interiors today. Among the exhibitors is Crucial Trading, showcasing their newest designs, alongside some of the most exciting names in the industry.
In this post, we share why Decorex is essential for designers, makers, and PR professionals, highlight key sessions to attend, and explain how being there can help amplify clients and brands.
Why Decorex 2025 Is Important – for Interiors & PR
Decorex is one of the UK’s very few events that provides access to the latest in interior design, artisan craftsmanship, and trendsetting discussions under one roof. Established in 1978, it has become a staple for designers, architects, and specifiers looking to see new product launches, discover materials, and engage with the direction in which luxury interiors are moving.
For a PR agency specialising in interiors, Decorex offers powerful opportunities:
Storytelling and content creation: every installation, every bar, every panel discussion is potential media content.
Media access and visibility: press and trade editors attend, new brands get seen, established names reinforce their position.
Trend spotting: being present means you can understand what’s emerging, what photographers and publications will likely cover, and what clients should lean into.
Highlights & Recommendations: What Not to Miss at Decorex 2025
There's certainly a lot to see and experience this year but here are the sessions, talks, workshops and installations we think offer the strongest content, learning, networking and PR value. We’ve selected these based on themes of craft, sustainability, personal story, design identity, and visual interest.
Must-See Features at Decorex
The Bar: Designed this year by Lucy Mayers for Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler. Inspired by a rich autumnal garden, with tented ceilings and marquees to create a space that feels both indoor and outdoor. A perfect Instagram-worthy setting and networking hub…. Plus the perfect spot to sip on your favourite tipple!
VIP Lounge – Palomino by Adẹ̀kọ́ & Co.: an exclusive space with premium finishes and design narrative at its core. A place to rest, recharge, and make connections with peers, press, influencers, clients.
Recommended Sessions & Workshops
Sunday 12th October
11:00–12:00, Making Spaces Workshops
Award-winning textile designer Maria Sigma shows how to weave discarded T-shirts and pillowcases into new textiles.
12:30–13:15, Sustainability Space
Designers and makers share how traditional skills and local resources bring sustainability and individuality to interiors.
Monday 13th October
12:00–12:45, Design Talks - Seminar Theatre
Henriette von Stockhausen (VSP Interiors) and Darren Price (ADAM Architecture) discuss art, antiques, and layered English country style. Moderated by journalist Elspeth Pridham.
13:00–13:45, Design Talks - Seminar Theatre
Pip Rich in conversation with industry leaders exploring how to integrate regional craft into global design, preserving heritage while driving innovation.
14:00–14:45, Design Talks - Seminar Theatre
Interior designers Joanna Wood & daughter Hattie Hansard join Scott Maddux & Jo leGleud, to discuss pros (and cons?!) of working in close partnerships. Moderated by journalist Roddy Clarke.
14:30–15:15, Sustainability Space
Interior Design Declares leaders call on the industry to unite aesthetics with environmental responsibility.
Tuesday 14th October
11:00–12:00, Making Spaces Workshops
Textile specialist Kendall Clarke teaches weaving swatches of classic patterns using mini warps and thread.
12:00–12:45, Design Talks - Seminar Theatre
Designers share how they shape personal, distinctive homes—followed by chair Emilio Pimentel-Reid signing his new book All Things Considered (Quadrille).
15:30–16:30, Making Spaces Workshops
Basketmaker Sarah Simonds introduces coiling techniques using Raffia to create small woven forms.
Wednesday 15th October
12:00–12:45, Design Talks - Seminar Theatre
Editor Ben Spriggs interviews rising star Tolu Adẹ̀kọ́ about narrative-driven interiors and his Decorex VIP lounge design.
13:00–13:45, Brand Perspectives - National Studio
Female founders, editors and business leaders share strategies for building thriving design practices on their own terms.
Design Talks - Seminar Theatre
Panel discussion on aligning design visions across disciplines for seamless interior and exterior spaces.
15:00–15:45, Design Talks - Seminar Theatre
Moderated by journalist Georgina Blaskey (Sheerluxe) with Alicia Meireles (OWN LONDON), Jordan & Russell (2LG), Louise Roe (Sharland), and Paddy O’Donnell (Farrow & Ball) on how social media shapes client expectations and creative practice.
Decorex 2025 is more than just a trade show — it’s a strategic moment for anyone in luxury interior design and design PR. It’s where design identity converges with media interest, craftsmanship meets commerce, and ideas are made visible.
As a PR agency deeply embedded in interiors, this is a key moment on our calendar: guiding our clients to the right conversations, helping them be seen where it counts, and crafting stories that carry beyond the show floor.
If you’re planning to be there and want help shaping your PR strategy - whether for press, photography, or partnerships - please get in touch.
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