Paris Design Week 2026: sensory experiences still to try out before September 19

The senses stay alert a little longer during Paris Design Week, as several immersive and experiential installations continue their run through September 19, 2026.

Paris Design Week does more than showcase design: it brings it to life. From September 10 to 19, 2026, a number of events play with the senses—motion, light, sound, and materials—to offer something beyond a mere tour. You walk in, move around, sometimes touch, feel, sit, and observe differently. In short, design shifts from contemplation to experience, with formats that invite the public to become more than just spectators.

Paris Design Week 2026: the events, installations and exhibitions to discover before it ends
The Paris Design Week is coming to a close, with only a few days left to wander through installations, exhibitions and events scattered across the capital. [Read more]

For those who love an exhibition that truly comes to life, immersive, experiential, and sensory experiences are well worth checking out. Some lean into scent, others into light, reflections, or textures, while still others completely transform the way you inhabit a space or move through an installation. The appeal lies precisely in this diversity. Immersion can come from a fragrance, a change in scale, a texture, the way you circulate, or a different relationship to the space. Design isn’t something you merely look at: it’s something you feel, engage with, and move through.

Immersive, experiential, and sensory experiences to discover at Paris Design Week 2026:

This Odéon townhouse is still open for a few more days during Paris Design Week 2026.
In Odéon, a townhouse is once again opening its doors to the public for a few days, hosting Hôtel des Possibles—an immersive installation on view until 14 September 2026 for Paris Design Week. [Read more]

Only a few days left to see this contemporary sundial at the Palais-Royal.
The sun keeps turning, and the Pavilion of Time is also approaching its final turn at the Jardin du Palais-Royal: Wu Bin's installation is on view until September 20, 2026. [Read more]