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IDS Vancouver 2026: The Design World Descends on the West Coast

Each year, Vancouver hands its convention floor over to the world’s design imagination, and 2026 promises the most ambitious edition yet. Interior Design Show (IDS) Vancouver returns to the Vancouver Convention Centre West from September 24 to 27, 2026, with an expanded roster of installations, keynote speakers, and curated marketplaces that transform the city into a temporary capital of furniture, architecture, and product design. For anyone who follows the industry, or simply loves a beautifully designed room, this is the week to clear the calendar.

IDS VANCOUVER 2025

A Grand Entrance and a Central Gathering Place

The show’s arrival sets the tone before a single booth is browsed. Award-winning Vancouver firm Stark Architecture, celebrated for the acclaimed Perpetua Bar at IDS 2024, returns to design this year’s entrance feature, titled Reflection, an installation exploring perception and surface through light, material, and proportion. As the firm describes it, “Reflection refuses a single definition. Is it the light returning, the moment of stillness before a thought takes shape, or what a surface quietly reveals about the one standing before it? This installation lives in all three at once, and asks you to find where they meet.” Rather than a backdrop, the piece becomes a point of orientation, shaping how visitors enter and move into the broader show floor.

REFLECTION BY STARK ARCHITECTURE

From there, all roads lead to the Central Bar by Synthesis Design Architecture, the show’s gathering point and its most photographed structure. Built entirely from British Columbia wood, the installation rises in soaring twelve-foot interlocking arches, a striking tribute to the province’s forestry heritage and the craftsmanship shaping its design future. The project is developed in partnership with naturallywood and Western Forest Projects, underscoring the ingenuity driving construction and fabrication across Western Canada’s design and manufacturing landscape.

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Voices Shaping the Industry

CW: JAMES | MANDY FARMER | MICHAEL SORENSEN | MAY GLOBUS

IDS Vancouver’s keynote stage has always been a draw, and this year’s lineup delivers on every front. Attendees can hear from Michael Sørensen, Global Market Director at Henning Larsen; Mandy Farmer, Chair of Hotels Canada and Chief Executive Officer of Accent Inns Inc.; and Nancy Bendtsen of Inform Interiors. Tommy Smythe joins Kelly Deck for a live conversation, May Globus records episodes of The Craft in front of a live audience, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh artist and designer James Harry offers a perspective rooted in place and heritage. Few design events on the continent assemble a roster this varied in a single weekend.

Discover the Next Generation of Design

For collectors and design lovers alike, Studio North remains an unmissable stop. The gallery-style showcase brings together custom work and limited-edition pieces from Canada’s leading independent designers and international talent, spanning furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and surface design.

CW: MIMIKO CERAMICS | THOMAS BODGA | GREY SAGE STUDIO | BOTHY.STUDIO

Just beyond it, Prototype offers a rare early look at what has not yet reached the market: experimental furniture, lighting, and home products curated specifically for IDS Vancouver. It is the exhibition where tomorrow’s bestsellers make their very first public appearance.

Rethinking Work and Landscape

Now in its second year, How We Work invites leading design firms to reimagine the future office through immersive, hands-on installations exploring collaboration, technology, and workplace wellness. This year’s participants include Kasian and 126 Design Studio, the latter partnering with Loop Phone Booths on a fresh take on workplace privacy.

Outdoors, British Columbia-based landscape architect Andrew van Egmond debuts a new installation examining circularity, climate adaptability, and the evolving relationship between architecture and the natural world. Working alongside collaborators Broadwell Metal and Solstice Landscape, van Egmond frames the piece with elements built from circular and upcycled materials, creating a sequence of environments that invite wandering, gathering, and close observation. Layers of planting mingle and weave together, and the effect broadens the show’s conversation well beyond four walls.

Shop the Show at The District

No visit to IDS Vancouver is complete without a stop at The District, the show’s curated marketplace of design-forward brands and independent makers. Furniture, lighting, home accessories, textiles, and décor fill the space, offering a rare chance to meet the people behind the products and shop pieces defined by craftsmanship, innovation, and sustainability.

With architecture, product design, and landscape all under one roof, IDS Vancouver 2026 confirms what regular attendees already know: this is where the industry comes to look forward. The show runs from Thursday, September 24, through Sunday, September 27, at the Vancouver Convention Centre West.

Author Profile

Helen Siwak, Luxury Lifestyle Observer: Helen Siwak is the founder of EcoLuxLuv Communications & Marketing Inc and publisher of Folio.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine and PORTFOLIOY.YVR Business & Entrepreneurs Magazine. She is a prolific content creator, consultant, and marketing and media strategist within the ecoluxury and luxury lifestyle niches. Helen is the west coast correspondent to Canada’s top-read business magazine Retail-Insider, holds a vast freelance portfolio, and is an EIC for Hire. Connect with her here: [email protected].