Paris is the new Pinterest for interior designers. Which is to say, there is only one place to go for deco ideas, and it is not scrolling social media on the sofa. Every January the design crowd descends on the City of Light the week before the fashion pack arrives. Serious swatch watchers are drawn to the new launches at Déco Off, in the 150-odd swanky fabric and wallpaper shops around Rue de Seine and Rue du Mail. Novelty seekers with plenty of stamina make for Maison&Objet, the trade fair at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition centre, where, among more than 2,000 exhibitors, this year they discovered designs from dog couture to silver-wrapped seating.

Évidemment this is not where the average DIYer shops, and peut-être you feel you may survive without a £3,000 panoramic mural of a 17th-century tapestry, a Burberry trench dupe for your dachshund or a Bacofoilesque easy chair, but Paris is a unique design week, combining avant-garde thinking, early warning of trends and the best quality classics. So that when the super-chic Parisian shows agree on a colour, a texture or a pretty print, you can bet it will be making its way across the channel and on to a high street near you by spring.

Six trends from Paris 2026 and where to buy themPink

Big colour news this year: pink is back. You may reasonably say it has never been away. Pink peaked in the mid-to-late 2010s in the form of an icy rose and then a pale blush. On the wall, a dusty pink has been a popular warm neutral for a decade, with shades from Farrow & Ball’s Setting Plaster to Edward Bulmer’s Cuisse de Nymphe Emue turning in solid performances for the heritage paint makers. The takeaway from Paris, however, was that pink has been elevated from background artist to main character once again.

A bedroom with a bed with white bedding, a pink rug, and dark wooden floors, seen through an open doorway.

▲ Sakura pink rug is part of the Nordic Knots Grand collection, from £595 for 140 x 200cm, nordicknots.com

A mushroom-shaped lamp with a pink top and a light blue stem sits on an orange pedestal.

▲ A highlight of Maison&Objet, the pink mushroom table lamp by the Copenhagen-based designer Helle Mardahl, £3,975 for a small lamp, hellemardahl.com

Pink swirled glass lamp and cup on a floral and striped patterned side table next to a bed.

▲ From Neotenic, the Original BTC x Buchanan Studio collection, table lamp with blown glass shade, in Strawberry, £849, originalbtc.com

A bedroom with a pink quilted bedspread, a light wood nightstand with a lamp and candle, and a wooden chair with folded blankets.

▲ New in at The White Company, Lois cushion from £50 and quilt, in blush pink, from £195, thewhitecompany.com

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Floral

The pattern we will be pining for post-Paris, if the showrooms and installations of the city are anything to go by, is floral. Granted, it’s hard to name a moment when florals have fallen out of fashion, but every so often there is a shift towards painterly blooms, or ditsy sprigs, hand-drawn plants or exotic species. This spring designers will be favouring flowers found in English country gardens. It’s quite the botanical niche, and — unsurprisingly — British brands are doing sterling work in this field.

The House of Liberty contributed some standout examples of floral papers. Little Greene unveiled a splendid collection inspired by specific National Trust gardens, including a mural of Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst Castle Garden, £272 per roll, and a rose garden based on the walled garden at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire, £132 per roll.

A living room with green and white checkerboard flooring, a teal sofa, and dark green wallpaper patterned with water lilies and otters.

▲ Little Greene’s fifth wallpaper collection with the National Trust, In the Garden, includes this Lily Pads print, inspired by the Stackpole estate in Wales, featuring dragonflies, otters, kingfishers, butterflies and water boatmen, £272 per roll, littlegreene.com

Dining room with green floral wallpaper, a wooden table, and bamboo chairs.

▲ Rose Garden, based on the walled garden at Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire, £132 per roll, littlegreene.com

A blue armchair with a green elephant-patterned pillow next to a yellow dresser, both against a floral wallpaper.

▲ Available to buy in March, the latest addition for the GP & J Baker x Kit Kemp II collection, Forest Flower, is based on an archive design featuring sprigs of wild flowers, £149 per roll, gpjbaker.com

Room with pink floral wallpaper, a painted pink dado rail, a striped bench, and an open door revealing an ivy-covered greenhouse.

▲ The House of Liberty is an archive-inspired collection that launched in Paris, celebrating the company’s 150th anniversary, which included spiffy florals. Betsy Bloom, £56 a metre, libertyfabric.com

A bed with a wicker headboard and bedding in sage, pink, and white floral patterns.

▲ Laura Ashley Pensham duvet set, from £60 for a double, next.co.uk

Fancy headboards

The fancy French fabric houses were in agreement: 2026 will be the year of the snazzy headboard. Showrooms and installations featured upholstered bedheads in all shapes and sizes, from arched to camelback, with curves that act as a canvas to display the prettiest prints from the new collections.

Bedroom with Cloudline striped wallpaper and floral headboard.

▲ Headboard in Forest Flower Blue/Green, £98 per metre, cushions in Cloudline Blue/Green £110 per metre, wallpaper Cloudline Blue/Green, £149 per roll, from the GP & J Baker x Kit Kemp II collection, gpjbaker.com

A neatly made bed with a mustard-yellow headboard and a patterned throw blanket, next to a marble nightstand with a lamp and flowers.

▲ Loaf Cookie upholstered headboard, £505, loaf.com

A bed with a Snoozeliner Double Headboard in Whipped Cream Clever Boucle, a cream blanket, and pillows of various sizes.

▲ Snoozeliner Double in Whipped Cream Clever Boucle, £1,395, loaf.com

Habitat headboard with purple and white stripes.

▲ Habitat’s Onda linen double headboard, £135, habitat.co.uk

A bedroom with a blue patterned headboard, a blue bedspread, and a blue nightstand with a red lamp.

▲ John Lewis Ravine headboard, from £579, johnlewis.com

Cord

The momentous question facing swatch watchers for the last five years — when can we finally say bye-bye to cream bouclé, the upholstery cliché of the 2020s? — remains unanswered. The fabric houses’ rails are still jam-packed with the nubbly stuff. But there is now a contender for its crown, filtering into the spring collections, another fabric that’s equally forgiving and robust, compatible with dogs and children: cord. The beautiful Burt Mohair corduroy was on show at Yarn Collective’s pop-up, in a coffee shop in Rue des Saints-Pères. Best of the bunch was Wyatt, the plain jumbo cord cotton fabric, shown with the new Schumacher Atelier Paris collection, in the former studio of the artist Arman on Rue des Grands Augustins, £85 per metre.

A bedroom featuring a bed with a colorful, patterned bedspread and red pillows, a beige headboard, and a textured silver art piece above it.

▲ In the Schumacher show, the label’s jumbo corduroy, Wyatt, was styled with the new Schumacher Atelier Paris collection. £85 per metre, schumacher.co.uk

A stack of six pieces of folded corduroy fabric in olive green, dark red, brown, yellow, light blue, and beige.

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▲ This heavyweight organic cotton cord, woven in the UK, is available by the metre, £90 per metre, nicolaharding.com or as upholstery on NiX by Nicola Harding

A light gray upholstered armchair with a dark wood frame and an orange corduroy cushion sits on a shaggy gray rug.

▲ Pure cotton washed cord cushion, £23, marksandspencer.com

A Cord Urban Outfitters lamp with a green corduroy shade and base, sunglasses, keys, and a Marshall speaker on a wooden table.

▲ Urban Outfitters corduroy table lamp, £24, urbanoutfitters.com

Modern folk

So far, so classic. Which brings us to the surprise trend of Déco Off 2026: new folk. Fabrics and papers, rugs and lampshades with motifs inspired by illustrations of folk tales, mythical animals, birds and traditional crafts were the unexpected and enjoyable addition to the new collections. Several printed papers channelled traditional needleworking skills, the most charming of which was Kit Kemp’s Roar stitch wallpaper, which launches March 9, as part of the GP & J Baker x Kit Kemp II collection, £149 per roll.

A decorative room divider with yellow and orange patterns, in a living room with a pink sofa.

▲ Kyiv-based Marina Pupchenko, founder of Pupcha Kylym, specialises in folkloric prints and embroideries, £1,811, pupcha.com

A blue and white themed bedroom with plaid bedding and bird-patterned wall hangings.

▲ Shop the trend nearer home, with Ikea’s Bittersota fabric, printed with a flying bird pattern, £15 for 150 cm x 300 cm recycled cotton, ikea.com

Pleated lampshade with floral embroidery.

▲ A collection of lampshades, a collaboration between Beauvamp Studio and Natasha Hulse, are handpainted with folksy motifs, £395, beauvamp.com

Jute flatweave rug in a geometric pattern of red and brown squares on a beige background.

▲ Star of A Rum Fellow’s new rug collection, out in February, features folk-inspired motifs. Handwoven in natural jute and New Zealand wool, folk flatweave jute rug, from £480 per sq m, depending on design and construction. All rugs are made to order, arumfellow.com

Illustration of Roar Stitch pattern wallpaper with a green table, painted box, and teacup.

▲ Roar stitch wallpaper launches March 9, part of the GP J Baker x Kit Kemp II collection, £149 per roll. gpjbaker.com

Dog luxe

Anything else? Let’s not forget the rise of doggy design. Paris is a city of immaculately turned-out pets, with elegant leashes, collars and coats, and owners who clearly have budget set aside for these canine cost centres. Accordingly, Maison&Objet launched Pet Square, a new zone for “accessoires animaux”, welcoming dog-centric design as a vital new category at the fair this year. Hermès, which has been producing luxury dog collars since the 1920s, undoubtedly leads the way in confections for the chic chien, from £790 beds to an equestrian themed tug toy, £165. But my prize for the most Parisian product of the fair must go to Charly & Moi’s doggy trench coat, “representing the timeless elegance and refined soul of the Saint-Germain district,” from £102.

A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel wearing a tan Charleymoi trench coat, looking up.

▲ Charly & Moi’s doggy trench coat, from £102, charlyetmoi.com

A pug lies on a striped blanket, chewing on a red and yellow dog toy.

▲ Tug of war but make it fashion. Reflecting its equestrian roots, Hermès has launched a bit-shaped rubber tug toy, £165, hermes.com

A brown poodle-like dog stands in a striped dog bed holding a rope toy while a Jack Russell terrier sits on another striped dog bed beside it.

▲ Back in Blighty, Lorfords Contemporary supplies the Hyde dog bed, which transforms into an ottoman with storage beneath the lid, £3,000, lorfords.com

A small gray dog sits on a stack of three patterned dog beds in front of a white sofa.

▲ Dog beds from Sofas and Stuff start from £196. Picture shows Small Dog Bed in RHS Collection Gertrude Jekyll Linen Cotton Blend, Navy, £477, Medium Dog bed in Cloth 21, Spring Twig: Quince, £602, and Large Dog bed in RHS Collection Gertrude Jekyll Linen Cotton Blend, Navy, £686, sofasandstuff.com