Apply now!CITY DESIGNQUARTIER (english application)
12 to 14 March 2027
DESIGN & CULINARY EVENT IN THE HEART OF VIENNA:
CITY DESIGNQUARTIER AT THE PALAIS NIEDERÖSTERREICH
The CITY DESIGNQUARTIER returns in 2027. From 12 to 14 March, the design market will bring together around 100 selected designers, manufacturers and gourmet brands at the historic Palais Niederösterreich.
Setting a high-quality tone for the design year, it creates an elegant design weekend that brings together independent fashion, authentic jewellery, lifestyle design, craftsmanship, and culinary delights.
The atmosphere blends historical elegance with city centre flair to provide an ideal setting for labels that prioritise quality, authenticity, aesthetics, and a distinctive design identity.
What you can expect:
- An exclusive location: the prestigious Palais Niederösterreich
- A curated design market: carefully selected by a jury of experts
- A design-savvy audience of visitors who appreciate high quality, sophistication and authenticity.
- Professional promotion: comprehensive marketing and press relations
- A lounge area offering high-quality additional services in a stylish setting
- Optimal sales and presentation conditions: visibility in a high-quality, design-conscious environment.
Following its successful debut in 2026, we invite you to be part of this exclusive event.
THE LOCATION
The PALAIS NIEDERÖSTERREICH is one of the most beautiful and elegant event venues in the heart of Vienna and provides an exclusive setting for a weekend celebrating design, fine craftsmanship and quality.
The CITY DESIGNQUARTIER presents its exhibitors in a charming historical atmosphere combined with modern urban elegance.
It offers over 1,000 m² of event space, including four state rooms housing the largest contiguous ceiling fresco in Austria.
The Palais Niederösterreich is easily accessible by public transport, with the “Herrengasse” underground station and bus lines located nearby.
The “Freyung” and “Am Hof” public car parks are also located nearby.
Fotos: Robert Fritz
YOUR COLLECTION. YOUR PRESENCE. YOUR STAGE.
Transform the Palais Niederösterreich into a catwalk for your label!
As part of the CITY DESIGNQUARTIER, you can present your latest collection in your very own fashion walk, combining creativity and effectiveness. Whether you specialise in fashion, accessories or jewellery, take advantage of the Palais’s exclusive atmosphere to create an unforgettable showcase.
Wow your regular customers, inspire new target audiences, and present your label in your own unique way.
You can design your presentation however you like and bring your own models and stylists. The result will be a live fashion walk that bears your signature and showcases your collection authentically.
Fotos: Robert Fritz
STAND DESIGN
In order to offer visitors an attractive design market and provide a fitting setting for your products, high-quality stand architecture and innovative product presentation are particularly important to us.
HOW WE ADVERTISE
- Target group-specific advertising activities, e.g. Falter.morgen newsletter, 1000things, Die StadtSpionin, Guided Vienna, FashionTouri
- Media partnership
- Direct address of the target group in the francis Market (concept store) & Plaza by distribution of the CITY DESIGNQUARTIER flyers with each purchase and posters
- Integration in various online event calendars
- Side event
- Poster advertising
- Hand out hand2hand leaflets
- Intensive promotion on social media (Facebook & Instagram) through new content and targeted advertising measures (customer audiences, lookalike audiences, retargeting) to increase reach and interaction (using additional advertising budget)
- Using the synergies of MODEPALAST’s social media channels
- Social Media | FB 3.500 | Instagram
- Social Media on the part of MODEPALAST – FB 11.000 | Instagram
- Press information & personal contact with editors in targeted media
- Press invitation & on-site press support
- Exhibitor guide on the website www.citydesignquartier.at and on the social media channels Instagram & Facebook: designquartiere
YOUR APPLICATION
Apply for the CITY DESIGNQUARTIER and join us in creating a unique weekend full of design, inspiration, and stylish atmosphere in the magnificent Palais Niederösterreich.
We look forward to receiving your application by 15 January on our online portal, and to a successful design market.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Andrea Stricker-Pokorn
Project Manager

May-Britt Alróe-Fischer
Managing Director
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Design mit Haltung.
Plattform mit Zukunft.
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