A sixth edition, and watches for the first time
Le Salon du Design is holding its sixth edition at Pavillon Sicli in Geneva, running all weekend on 7 and 8 November 2026. A queue forms outside from the 10am opening — vintage furniture on the ground floor, and new to this address this year, Jojo la Montre's La Bourse aux Montres, now in its fourth edition, set up upstairs in the small dome. Both halves run the full weekend: Saturday 10:00 to 20:00, Sunday 10:00 to 18:00.
Corine Stübi's eye, since 2017
The fair is Corine Stübi's project. She runs the Kissthedesign gallery in Lausanne and launched the Salon in 2017, after spotting a gap in Switzerland's design calendar: nothing sat between vintage flea markets and Design Miami/Basel. This edition brings around twenty dealers from Switzerland, France and Belgium, showing furniture and lighting from the 1930s to the 1980s — Kissthedesign, Edra, Cargo Culte, Ré-actuel, Artichoke, Les Illuminés Design XXème and Galerie Port Franc among them. Pieces are selling within the first hours.
Upstairs, in the small dome: La Bourse aux Montres, and an Eterna that had never been worn
Upstairs in the small dome, several watch dealers lay out their pieces, and the crowd is so thick all day that moving through is hard going. I found mine at Jojo la Montre's own stand: an original Eterna, quartz, never worn — a small jewellery watch. Jojo la Montre is Joël Laplace, who has hunted vintage watches since he was 18 and turned it into a Geneva business in 2022 — buying, restoring and reselling at prices he keeps deliberately accessible.
Between the two halls, people compare notes, haggle and trade outright — the kind of weekend-long buzz few Geneva events manage to sustain start to finish.