From 9 to 11 October, the eighth edition returns to La Santissima and expands into the Chiaia district, with installations, new formats and international collaborations
From Margaret and Christine Wertheim’s Crochet Coral Reef, a coral reef crocheted by thousands of people, to Massimo Lunardon’s glass works; from the lights of six Spanish designers inside Palazzo Cellamare to an unprecedented exchange between Naples and Cape Town. From 9 to 11 October, EDIT Napoli, the fair dedicated to independent and authorial design curated by Emilia Petruccelli and Domitilla Dardi, returns for its eighth edition. Alongside around 80 Italian and international exhibitors gathered at La Santissima, this year’s programme extends into Chiaia, entering historic palazzi, churches and buildings that are normally inaccessible to the public. Where Design Shapes is the theme chosen for 2026: an invitation to look beyond the finished object and focus instead on the processes, materials, gestures, skills and relationships through which ideas become tangible.
EDIT Napoli 2025 - La Santissima © A. Mustilli
It is above all EDIT CULT, the programme of exhibitions, installations and site-specific interventions spread across the city, that traces this new geography. After taking over cloisters, castles, monasteries and museums in previous years, in 2026 the route moves towards Chiaia and the sea, placing contemporary design within Naples’ historical and architectural heritage. At the Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, Crochet Coral Reef brings art, science and collective participation together in a work by Margaret and Christine Wertheim. Developed in collaboration with the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, it involved more than 4,000 people from different countries, who created over 40,000 crocheted coral forms. These were assembled into six large textile islands, two of which will be presented in Naples.
Chiaia, EDIT Napoli 2026 - © A. Mustilli
At the Church of San Rocco in Chiaia, Archetipi di Pace by Fabrizia Frezza and Felice Limosani brings matter, light and words to the church’s five altars. Frezza’s sculptures, created with artisan and artist Pericle Moretti in terracotta, glaze and cocciopesto, give form to Presence, Listening, Care and Balance, which come together as Peace on the main altar; alongside them, Limosani’s video installation uses light and words to explore language and its etymologies. At Palazzo Ruffo della Scaletta, L’Equilibrista by Lombardini22, together with Mangini and B&B Italia, translates the idea of balance into an immersive environment of suspended elements and visible counterweights, whose configuration shifts as visitors move through the space.
At Fondazione Plart, Controtempo, an exhibition curated by Domitilla Dardi, presents more than 50 works by Massimo Lunardon, exploring the glass master’s practice through three sections: Interpretazioni, devoted to his relationship with artists; Q/A, focusing on his exchanges with designers; and Teatro Lunardon, dedicated to the figures that populate his imagination. Coinciding with the exhibition, Corraini will publish a monograph devoted to his work. Common Ground by Margherita Rui, meanwhile, gathers NasonMoretti, Fornace Brioni, Fortuny, Imolarte and Amenta Incisioni around the table, conceived as a meeting place for different traditions of Italian craftsmanship. At Palazzo Cellamare, Lights on Spain sets the historic interiors against lamps by Tomás Alía, Álvaro Catalán de Ocón, Curro Claret, Mayice Studio, Lucas Muñoz Muñoz and Jorge Penadés, six voices in contemporary Spanish design.
EDIT Napoli 2025 - La Santissima / Foto a destra © Eller Studio; foto a sinistra © A. Mustilli
The fair’s international reach is also reflected in Cultural Currencies: Cape Town Furniture Week x EDIT Napoli, developed with Cape Town Furniture Week and curated by Francesca Lanzavecchia. African Jacquard, Ananta Design Studio, James Mudge Furniture Studio x Mungo, Water Dixon and Wiid Design are the five South African studios selected for an encounter between Cape Town and Naples, two cities connected by their relationship with geology and the sea, and by creative cultures rooted in place. The ongoing collaboration with España Diseño Mediterráneo and the Instituto Cervantes in Naples also continues, while the support of ICE – the Italian Trade Agency – will bring more than 40 professionals from 12 countries to the city. At La Santissima, meanwhile, Camera con Vista makes its debut, a new exhibition format inviting designers, studios and companies to interpret the bedroom as a space for experimentation and staging. Symbolically overlooking Mount Vesuvius, the different rooms offer visions of contemporary living through furniture, objects and materials, allowing the surrounding landscape to become part of the experience.
Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes - Courtesy of Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes
Another first for this edition is a programme of workshops open to the public, foregrounding techniques, materials and processes. With Brick after brick: bread after bread, French collective Studio CoPain invites participants to give stale bread a second life, transforming it into a material with which to build a small house; in Woven 3D Shapes - Original Digital Technology, Alison Grace Martin uses paper to explore hyperbolic geometries and three-dimensional forms inspired by flowers and shells. Two experiences that return Where Design Shapes to its most tangible dimension, revealing not only what design produces, but how it comes into being.
Camera con Vista - La Santissima © A. Mustilli 20
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