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A 300 sqm room on the fourth floor of a 1914 warehouse in Glasgow's Merchant City. Part showroom, part events space, part living room, and the room where the people who specify actually go. The permanent home of #DesignPopUp, hosted by the person who started it.

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Where Scotland's architecture and design community comes together.

Three reasons people come up four floors

1

One brand per category. Ten places.

A seat at the tables that matter, and your products in front of the practices that specify them.

2

Small rooms, good conversation.

CPDs, panel talks, dinners and the odd party. Most of it is free.

3

Twelve round a table, or a hundred.

Natural light, furniture that moves, a proper kitchen, and one person to deal with.

Who's actually in the room

120+

organisations came through our own programme last year.

2/3

of them are architecture and design practices.

25

have been back more than once.

RIAS, the Glasgow Institute of Architects, Women in Property, Young Professionals in Construction and The Herald have all chosen to run their own events here.

Ten people. One table. A chef.

A CENA

The big events are fun, and we still throw one every year. But the best conversations happen at dinner — ten people, each asked personally, a menu by Darren of Blas Dining, or a home cooked meal by Sara, and a brand at the head of the table because they earned the seat. We call it A Cena. It's what we're best at.

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“In ten years of hosting #DesignPopUp, I've learned that my best ideas come out of conversations. Relationships are the whole business. Il Salotto is a room where Scottish architects, designers and specifiers gather, share ideas and inspire one another — and where I get to be the host.”

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