idd cologne spreads interior design across the city: Design Post, WallStudio, machwerkhaus, showrooms and retail partners instead of an exhibition hall. For brands that means daylight, tight spaces and evening events — for us it means working in available light and moving between venues, so your presentation looks like the room it stands in.
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| Dates | Tuesday 27 to Saturday 31 October 2026, alongside ORGATEC |
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| Venue | Spread across the city, with no exhibition halls: Design Post Köln (Deutz-Mülheimer Straße 22a, 50679 Cologne, Deutz), WallStudio Cologne (Vorgebirgstraße 65, Südstadt, new in 2026), machwerkhaus köln (Dillenburger Straße 71–97, Kalk), plus showrooms and retail partners |
| Frequency | Annual, five days, at the same time as ORGATEC — second edition after the 2025 premiere |
| Profile | Interior design event for residential, contract and design culture in an urban format: brand presentations in showrooms and venues instead of classic stands — 106 brands at 16 locations in 2025 |
| Audience | Free entry on every day, no ticket needed, for trade and private visitors alike; around 10,000 registered visitors in 2025 — architects, interior designers, retailers and a design-minded public, with talks, openings and evening events |
| Our travel time | About 60 minutes from Essen — travel included in the package price |
A presentation at idd cologne stands in a room that already has a language: window fronts with daylight, concrete floors, period plasterwork or the industrial hall of the Design Post. That is an advantage for the pictures — real rooms look more credible than any stand — and a task for the photographer. Daylight from the side, spots from above and evening light from 5 pm change how fabrics, timber and lacquer read several times within a single day.
So we work with available light, little equipment and time for white balance. The result is interior photography in which sofa, luminaire or shelving appear as part of a lived-in room — plus detail shots of surfaces and workmanship that retailers need for website and catalogue. Tight showrooms are photographed with a moderate wide angle and straight lines, so rooms do not look distorted.
idd cologne lives on its programme: openings in showrooms, conversations with designers, evening receptions. We photograph these moments without flash so the mood in the room stays intact, and film short vertical clips that are on Instagram and LinkedIn the same evening. An interview with your designer or brand director in your own showroom is the most natural video format there is — no hall noise, no foreign branding in the background.
If you use several venues — a showroom in town and a space at the Design Post, say — both are covered within one time window. Design Post is in Deutz, WallStudio Cologne in the Südstadt and machwerkhaus in Kalk; we build the travel time between districts into the schedule.
idd cologne runs from Tuesday 27 to Saturday 31 October, at the same time as ORGATEC. Every venue is free and ticketless for trade and private visitors on all days; there is no trade-only or public-only day, so expect a mixed crowd throughout. Venues open at 10 am and Design Post closes at 7 pm daily, while WallStudio stays open until 9 pm on Thursday and machwerkhaus until 9 pm on Friday.
Our recommendation: a two- or four-hour package on a day of your choice, with room and product shots in the morning, extended by two hours for an opening or a late evening. Exhibitors who also stand at ORGATEC are covered in the same week under one quote.
The second idd cologne lasts five days, spreads over three main venues in three districts and is closely tied to ORGATEC. That changes how you plan a shoot.
idd cologne runs from Tuesday 27 to Saturday 31 October, at the same time as ORGATEC. You can pick your shoot day freely, for instance scheduling conversations with specifiers while the trade fair is in town.
Venues open at 10 am and Design Post closes at 7 pm daily. WallStudio stays open until 9 pm on Thursday, machwerkhaus until 9 pm on Friday. Mornings suit calm interior shots, evenings suit artificial light and events.
Design Post is in Deutz, the new WallStudio Cologne in the Südstadt and machwerkhaus in Kalk. If you show at several venues, build the travel time between districts into your shoot plan.
In 2026 Design Post is also an official ORGATEC venue. Alongside idd brands such as Arper, DEDON and Lodes, Flokk and Klöber show there, so visitors from both events meet in one place.
Every venue is free and ticketless for trade and private visitors on all days. Expect a mixed crowd throughout and arrange consent if visitors are to be recognisable in your images.
Information as published by the organiser (idd-cologne.com), September 2026.
Furniture, lighting and textiles as part of a real room — in daylight, without distortion.
White balance and exposure matched to window light, spots and evening mood, no flash.
Vernissages and receptions in showrooms, atmosphere instead of flash.
Your space or showroom before opening, tidy and with no visitors in frame.
Vertical clips from the opening and a 30-second highlight, delivered the same evening.
Conversations with designers and brand directors in your own showroom, delivered with subtitles.
A sample from our production: the event recap for your website and LinkedIn — below it, native 9:16 footage for Reels, Shorts and Stories, shot in parallel with the main coverage.
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Trade fair clip · Vapes Bars
Fixed prices, defined deliverables, predictable turnaround. All prices exclude VAT and include travel within North Rhine-Westphalia.
Add-on: On-stand interview + extended highlight video (approx. 90 sec.) €190
Payment: by invoice or online by credit card, details in the quote. No German VAT for non-EU companies; reverse charge for EU companies with VAT ID.
Tell us the date, your stand and what the images are for. You normally get a fixed-price quote within 24 hours, with no hidden line items.
We bring our own equipment, follow an agreed shot list and work discreetly, without interrupting conversations or demos. A first selection is ready while the show day is still running.
Finished photos and video for LinkedIn, PR, your website and social media via a private download link, at the latest 24 hours after the event ends. Two revision rounds included.
From €990 plus VAT for two hours of photo and video on site with at least 30 edited images and a 30-second highlight video. Four hours from €1,490, a full show day from €1,990. Travel to Cologne is included.
Yes, that is the norm at idd cologne. We work with available light and little equipment, so the room appears the way your visitors experience it.
Yes. idd cologne runs Tuesday to Saturday, at the same time as ORGATEC, which runs Tuesday to Friday. We plan both shoots in one quote, on one or two days depending on scope.
Any of the five days: every venue is free and ticketless for trade and private visitors on all days, with no trade-only or public-only day. Mornings after the 10 am opening suit room and product shots, evenings suit the programme. For an evening opening simply book two additional hours.
Yes. Interviews, briefing and the entire engagement run in English — a large share of our trade fair clients come from outside Germany. Invoices with VAT ID for EU companies, no German VAT for companies outside the EU.
Send us your venue, the time of your opening and the products you want to feature. We will propose a time window and a fixed-price quote.
We normally reply within 24 hours. For short-notice bookings during a show week, please call.
