Since eight years, every October, EDIT Napoli makes a persuasive case for slowing down and looking at design a little more closely. The Naples fair focuses on the authorial object. Core questions that will arise are how the object was conceived, who made it, which materials shaped it. Also, whether a contemporary idea can coexist with knowledge passed down through generations.
From 9 to 11 October 2026, EDIT Napoli returns to La Santissima, inside the historic SS.Complesso della Trinità delle Monache in the Quartieri Spagnoli. The former convent became the fair’s home in 2025 and once again provides a striking setting for three days dedicated to independent and authorial design.
What Is EDIT Napoli?
Born in 2019 from an idea by Emilia Petruccelli and Domitilla Dardi, EDIT Napoli was created around a particular vision of contemporary design: one in which the designer does not necessarily stop at the drawing board.
Instead, the fair focuses on the rise of the designer-maker and on independent producers, craftspeople and manufacturers who remain closely involved with the way their objects are developed and produced.
From its first edition, research, production quality, and a meaningful relationship between design and making have been central to its selection.
That distinction still defines EDIT. It gives the fair a more intimate rhythm than many larger international design events.Here, material and the making process often tell as much of the story as the finished object.
A Design Fair Built Around Making
For 2026, EDIT continues to favor practices rooted in making and reproducibility. Its selection criteria place particular attention on manufacturing processes, the application of materials, authenticity, and objects that can be reproduced rather than remaining one-off exercises.
This creates an interesting territory somewhere between craft and the design world.
Traditional processes can sit beside experimental technologies. Familiar materials can acquire unexpected forms. Most importantly, the maker remains visible behind the object.
For Hue&Eye, this is where EDIT matters most. At a moment when design images travel faster than the objects themselves, knowing how and why something has been made increasingly becomes part of its value.
What to Expect at EDIT Napoli 2026
The main fair will once again occupy La Santissima, overlooking Naples from the Quartieri Spagnoli. Alongside established independent producers, EDIT continues its commitment to younger practices through Seminario, the section curated for designers and artisans under 30 and companies founded within the past three years.
The annual Best Unreleased Product Award also highlights new work presented by exhibitors.The 2026 jury brings together Maria Dolores Uribe, founder and creative director of Studio 84 and UNNO Gallery; designer Francesca Lanzavecchia; AD Italia Head of Editorial Content Asad Syrkett and designer and entrepreneur Aliai Forte.
But, as always, the real interest will lie in moving between very different approaches to material, function and production.
Among the names already on the Hue&Eye radar are ÙTOL, GNSK_K by Gensuke Kishi, Le Forme Atelier by Amauta Ciriaci, DLA Design Lab, Bottega Vazzoler, Madame Bozarjiants Design Bureau, MA_ST_AR by Maja Stamenković, Fornace Brioni and David Valner Studio.
For now, we will leave it there. We would rather meet the objects in Naples before deciding which ones truly deserve a closer look. Stay tuned!
EDIT Cult Brings Design Into Naples
One of EDIT Napoli’s most distinctive qualities is that the experience does not end at the fair.
EDIT Cult takes special design projects into historic and cultural locations around Naples, allowing contemporary objects to enter into conversation with the architecture and memory of the city itself.
The 2026 program already suggests a particularly varied edition. Common Ground, conceived by Margherita Rui, brings together NasonMoretti, Fornace Brioni, Fortuny, Imolarte and Amenta Incisioni around the idea of the table as a shared place. Elsewhere, Light on Spain gathers six Spanish designers, while Margaret and Christine Wertheim’s celebrated Crochet Coral Reef introduces a completely different intersection between making, collective practice and visual culture.
This dialogue between fair and city is important. Naples is not simply the backdrop to EDIT. Its architecture, craftsmanship, layers of history, and occasional contradictions shape how the work is experienced.
Why EDIT Napoli Matters in 2026
The most interesting question this year is not simply what is new, but what kind of newness design needs.
EDIT has consistently proposed an alternative to novelty for novelty’s sake. Many of the practices it champions begin instead with technique, geography, material knowledge or a very specific way of producing.
That does not make the work nostalgic—quite the opposite.
It suggests that contemporary design can move forward without erasing where things come from.
And this October, we will be particularly interested in the designers who manage that balance: between hand and technology, heritage and experimentation, function and personality.
EDIT Napoli 2026: Dates and Location
EDIT Napoli 2026 takes place 9–11 October, from 10 am to 7 pm, at La Santissima, Vico Trinità delle Monache 1, Naples. A press preview takes place on 8 October. Admission to the fair also includes access to the EDIT Cult program.
Hue&Eye will be in Naples to cover the fair, meet its designers, and look beyond the objects that make the quickest first impression.
And before we arrive, we are preparing something new.
Hue&Eye Issue 01 — EDIT Napoli 2026 will be our complimentary editorial guide to the designers, materials, and ideas we believe deserve attention this year.
