Two free installations at the Paris Historical Library for Paris Design Week 2026

During Paris Design Week, design is on the move. It leaves the showrooms, crosses the cobbled courtyards, and takes over some of Paris’s most beautiful settings, transformed for the occasion into an open-air urban festival. Established designers, rising stars and craft professionals test their ideas directly with the public, with free installations that push furniture, materials and usages out of their comfort zones. In short, for ten days, Paris gives its living-space planning a serious rethink, from September 10 to 19, 2026.

Paris Design Week 2026 returns in September: dates, venues and the lineup of free installations.
Design takes up residence in Paris with Paris Design Week 2026, back from September 10 to 19, 2026. Between free installations, bold new works, and venues redesigned for the occasion, here’s what to expect. [Read more]

In the Marais, the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris is staging a playful setup in the courtyard of the Hôtel de Lamoignon, a 16th- and 17th-century townhouse that already oozes charm. First run with Service compris, conceived by the collectif ppdesigner, founded in 2025 by seven designers: around forty creators reinterpret the Parisian café in a bright, uncoordinated decor where tables, seating, crockery, lamps, and even mock pigeons form a deliberately eclectic whole. Readings and activations will bring the whole installation to life.

Fibois also stakes its claim in the courtyard alongside the 2026 winners of Bois Français & Design and its theme “Espaces en commun.s.” After drawing more than 10,000 visitors in 2025, the exhibition is extending its run with French timber and repurposed materials transformed into meeting spaces, games, seating areas, and even a Ferris wheel.

Two ways of imagining the collective within the same grand townhouse: one orders a coffee, the other knocks on wood.