Making Spaces

Following an incredible response and the success of 2024, we’re excited to announce the return of Making Spaces to Decorex 2025! This year’s edition will feature a brand-new lineup of exceptional artisans, ready to showcase their craftsmanship and creativity.

Submit your application today for an opportunity to demonstrate the design and production process of your products and provide hands-on experiences to the luxury design community.

View 2024 Artisans

View Committee Members

The Next Chapter

Making Spaces Workshops

Submit Application

View 2024 Artisans

View Committee Members

Making Spaces

2025 Partners

Jo Davies Ceramics & Gregory Parson

Future Icons

Future Icons represents and showcases a select collection of design and craft led businesses that produce the finest interior accessories, furniture, jewellery, fashion accessories, artwork and objet d’art internationally.

Future Icons client collections can be found in museums, galleries and private residences across the world. Our clients have amassed over 30 awards between them and editorial mentions in significant international publications throughout their careers. Future Icons collections are presented as heirlooms of the future. An opportunity for design conscious individuals to invest and enjoy now.

Each brand has been selected based on their craftsmanship, originality, heritage and commercial appeal of their collections.

Find Out More

Rycotewood Furniture Center

Rycotewood Furniture Centre Oxford - Delivering excellence in design & Craft education since 1938. Set up in 1938 by the late artist and philanthropist Cecil Michaelis to provide craft training for young people. A keen supporter of the Arts and Crafts movement he was concerned that valuable skills were in danger of being lost.

Rycotewood still keeps these values at its core offer a wide variety of courses to the next generation of designers and makers. Students can join us straight from school undertaking level 2 City and Guilds qualifications in Furniture Making by hand with progression onto level 3. Focus of these courses is on traditional furniture making using hand tools. Constructing boxes and drawers using dovetails joints and door frames with mortise and tenon joints. Veneering is a key skill, and this allows our students to work creatively developing marquetry designs. This course also equips older students to develop and build on existing craft skills.

Find Out More

QEST

The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) is a charity that transforms the careers of talented and aspiring makers by funding their training and education, creating pathways to excellence and strengthening the future of the UK’s craft sector.

Since 1990, QEST has awarded £7 million to almost 900 craftspeople working across the UK in 130 different craft disciplines. From guitar making to woodturning, thatching to enamelling, QEST embraces craft in all its many forms and are proud to contribute towards its evolving tradition. The charity also inspires the next generation of makers by offering them opportunities to develop hand skills, meet professional craftspeople, and explore creative careers through their Crafting Tomorrow programme.

Find Out More

Cockpit

Cockpit is a centre for excellence in craft, bridging the gap between talent and opportunity. An award-winning social enterprise, Cockpit is home to 160 independent creative businesses.

Working across 20 craft disciplines, Cockpit makers are selected for excellence in skill, originality of ideas and drive to take their practice to the next level.

A sought-after place at Cockpit includes subsidised or funded studio space as well as in-house business training and support.

Find Out More

Find Design Inspiration At Decorex

Discover brand new products for your upcoming projects and find design inspiration on every corner when you visit our event. Sign up to our newsletter today to stay up to date with the latest trends and movements in interior design.

Newsletter Sign Up