Cairo Design Week 2025: Downtown.
A look back at one of the districts that shaped this year’s edition.
Stay tuned for Cairo Design Week 2026
19–28 November 2026.
Cairo Design Week 2025: Zamalek.
A look back at one of the districts that shaped this year’s edition.
Stay tuned for Cairo Design Week 2026
19–28 November 2026.
@SceneHome : From 19 to 28 November 2026, Cairo Design Week will once again transform the capital into an open, walkable programme of exhibitions, installations and ideas where visitors can map out a full day or simply follow curiosity wherever it leads.
Since its launch in 2022, Cairo Design Week has grown from a neighbourhood-scale experiment in Heliopolis into one of the region’s most anticipated cultural events and a recognised member of the World Design Weeks network. Each edition has expanded its reach, from Heliopolis to Downtown’s Belle Époque fabric, the Citadel, Zamalek and beyond.
The week has always aimed to position design as a public conversation, not confined to disciplines or industries but embedded in everyday life. Families wander through heritage homes, students sketch between installations, and passers-by find themselves drawn into conversations about form, function and feeling.
Now entering its fourth edition, Cairo Design Week returns with anticipation building around how this year’s theme will once again reshape the way the city sees, experiences and engages with design.
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A world inside a box.
Shewekar صندوق الدنيا at Cairo Design Week in the Zamalek Design District; where Egyptian tradition and craft meet contemporary design.
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@SceneHome : Multimedia artist Pilar Zeta and Egyptian stone house Marmonil bring their work to Paris as Mirror Gate II stands at the heart of the city on the Place du Louvre. After its inauguration on January 20th, 2026, it will remain on display for one month. The monumental sculpture brings Egypt into direct conversation with the city, positioned opposite the museum housing one of the world’s most significant Egyptian collections.
Following their collaboration at Art D’Egypte, where Mirror Gate I rose in front of the Pyramids of Giza, the Paris installation extends Zeta and Marmonil’s ongoing exploration of placing contemporary form within historically charged landscapes.
Carved from Egyptian heritage stones sourced from Marmonil’s quarries, the sculpture draws on yellow Alabaster, imperial red Aswan granite, and Breccia Fawakhir, materials that have shaped Egyptian architecture and sculpture for millennia. At its centre, a linear checkerboard path introduces a sense of order and duality, recalling geometric motifs embedded in Egyptian design. The path leads inward toward a mirrored form that reflects both the viewer and the surrounding space, folding individual perception into the historical setting of the Louvre.
Installed in Paris 190 years after Egypt gifted France the Luxor Obelisk, Mirror Gate II resonates with a long history of cultural exchange. The obelisk, originally from Luxor Temple, still stands at Place de la Concorde while its twin remains in Egypt. The sculpture revisits this gesture through contemporary stone and form, situating Egyptian material presence once again within the urban fabric of Paris.
The project was realised in partnership with Ora and Cairo Design Week, curated by Stéphane Ruffier Meray, and under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture of Egypt and Paris Centre City Hall.
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