Copenhagen design week opens June 10 with 13th-year lineup

June 10. 3 Days of Design opens in Copenhagen for the 13th year running. Three days, as titled. The festival runs through June 12.

Dezeen Events Guide published a digital festival guide this week. The guide lists exhibitions, installations, talks, product launches, and after-parties scheduled across the three days. The format is a scrollable web page, not a downloadable PDF or printed program. The shift to digital-only happened two editions ago; the festival stopped printing booklets in 2024.

The festival operates as a city-wide open house. Showrooms, studios, and galleries coordinate their schedules to overlap during the same 72 hours. Most venues are open to the public without tickets. A handful of talks and dinners require advance registration. The heaviest concentration of programming sits in the Nordhavn and Nørrebro districts, where most of the furniture showrooms and design offices are based.

Dezeen's guide groups events by district and by type. The type filter separates product launches from panel discussions from openings. The district filter lets a reader map a single walking route instead of crossing the city six times. The guide updates in real time if a venue adds a last-minute event or cancels one.

The festival has grown incrementally every year since 2014. The first edition had 40 participating venues. This year's guide lists 180. Most are furniture and lighting brands. A smaller number are architecture studios showing models or hosting open critiques. The festival does not include fashion, though a few accessory designers occasionally appear in showroom collaborations.

Copenhagen still leans harder into design week than Milan or London. The city's tourism board co-sponsors the event, and most hotels offer festival packages with late checkouts and showroom maps at the desk. The timing overlaps with the end of the academic year at the Royal Danish Academy, so student exhibitions are common.