Core77 - Blog • Jan. 22, 2026, 4:20 p.m.

If IDD Cologne 2025 was the trade fair's new move to bring an urban flavor to the more industrial international furniture fair in Cologne, Passagen has always been approaching its audience from the urban side by design. Established by Sabine Voggenreiter in 1990 as a decentralized off-program to contrast the IMM in the trade fair area, Passagen is the less corporate (but not less premium), often more hidden, and potentially more diverse grassroots counterpart.

This is where design students, smaller brands, designer-makers, movers and shakers show their stuff, fresh out of the workshop.

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