Art News: PAD London 2026 in Berkeley Square, Dates and Tickets

PAD London is back in Berkeley Square for its 18th edition, from 13 to 18 October. It is the only fair in the UK given over entirely to design, historical and contemporary, and this year it brings 66 galleries from 15 countries, seven of them new to the fair. The first two days are previews; the public can visit from Thursday 15 October, and tickets cost £30.

PAD London 2026 dates, opening hours and tickets

• Tuesday 13 October: Collectors' Preview, 11am to 8pm (£100)
• Wednesday 14 October: VIP Opening, 11am to 7pm (£75)
• Thursday 15 to Saturday 17 October: open to the public, 11am to 7pm
• Sunday 18 October: open to the public, 11am to 6pm

Public tickets cost £30, or £15 for students, and can be booked through the fair's website, padesignart.com. The fair fills a pavilion in the middle of Berkeley Square in Mayfair, W1J 6EN, a short walk from Green Park station. The cloakroom charges £2 for coats and small bags and £5 for suitcases and large backpacks.

Berkeley Square, with Alexander Munro's marble fountain nymph beneath the plane trees. Photo: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

What to see

PAD mixes the historical with the newly made. Among the contemporary pieces getting attention this year are a new Tall Armadillo Cabinet by Lukas Wegwerth and Corinna Dehn at Gallery FUMI, silver by Junko Mori at Adrian Sassoon, and a sofa by Seungjin Yang suspended on elongated resin balloons at Gallery LVS & Craft. Friedman Benda shows Samuel Ross's Amnesia or Platelet Apparition?, in marble and powder-coated steel.

The newcomers are worth seeking out. Boketto, from Paris, shows Through and Through, a group exhibition about density and transparency. Initio Arts & Design, from Saint-Ouen, brings art and collectible design from Eastern Europe, including Rebeka Rácz's The Watcher coffee table. Lloyd Choi Gallery comes from Incheon with South Korean artists working with material and heritage, and Galerie May – Maylis et Charles Tassin brings bold, craft-led furniture from Paris.

Jewellery at PAD

Jewellery has become one of the fair's strengths. Buccellati's stand is designed by Chahan Minassian, after the house's Milan flagship, and shows new pieces alongside sculptural silver. Fernando Jorge returns with his Armour and High Armour series in ebony and white opal, Hemmerle sets coloured stones with found and unexpected materials, and Elie Top shows ancient diamonds from the Greek island of Kythira. The Greek jeweller Nikos Koulis makes his PAD London debut, and at Second Petale the Lebanese designer Nada Ghazal launches Echoes, her first full high jewellery collection.

Paintings at a design fair

PAD is not only furniture and objects. Opera Gallery, on stand B17, lists works by Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, Fernando Botero, Manolo Valdés and George Condo, with Alex Katz's Yvonne in Green of 1995. Among the newcomers, Durazzo and the jeweller Georges Lenfant share a stand built around the circle, pairing high jewellery with post-war paintings by Marina Apollonio, Yaacov Agam and Titina Maselli. Apollonio and Agam belong to the op and kinetic art of the 1960s, the movement of Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley.

A square built for collectors

PAD was founded in Paris in 1998 by Patrick Perrin, a fourth-generation Parisian antique dealer, and came to London in 2007. Berkeley Square suits it. The square's plane trees were planted in 1789 and are among the oldest in central London, and the great house on its south side, Lansdowne House, had rooms designed by Robert Adam. When the house was cut back in the 1930s, two of them were taken out and shipped to America: the dining room is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the drawing room in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, engraved by John Shury in 1815. Yale Center for British Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same week

PAD overlaps with the rest of London's busiest art week. Frieze London and Frieze Masters run in The Regent's Park from 14 to 18 October, the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is at Somerset House, and the Affordable Art Fair is in Battersea Park, while the autumn auctions bring Banksy's Keep Ou T and the first Hockney dog painting ever offered at auction.

Owning modern art

A fair like PAD shows what the best examples look like, but most of the modern art in private hands is on paper: a Picasso lithograph or linocut, a Dubuffet print, a Katz screenprint, a Vasarely multiple. What one is worth depends on exactly what it is, from the edition and the signature to the paper and its condition.

If you own a painting, print or edition by one of these artists and are thinking of selling, send us photographs for a free valuation. There is no obligation to sell, and we act for you rather than for the saleroom.

Cover: the PAD London pavilion in Berkeley Square.