Reasons for exhibiting
- A rigorous and highly specialized selection
- A large and well-informed public
- Widespread advertising
- A major economic event
- Refined scenography
- A highly specialized programme
- A skilled organiser
- Strasbourg, an attractive city
- Satisfied exhibitors
- Services designed to meet your needs
- An eco-labelled fair
résonances is the ideal place to assert the excellence of your know-how, and benefit from an incredible economic lever to secure sales and orders. Seize this opportunity to showcase your latest creations for the benefit of the public attending the fair, the notoriety of which makes it an essential event in the fine crafts sector.
The aim of the jury is to ensure that the fair has:
- an outstanding level of quality and originality
- a carefully balanced representation of the different professions within this sector
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a satisfactory rate of exhibitor renewal.
To do so, the jury adopts a clearly defined editorial line: the fairs must be resolutely contemporary and exclusively reserved for professionals in the field of fine crafts. Exhibitors are carefully chosen, and the jury ensures that selected creators display a high level of know-how, and a remarkable artistic approach that is sure to thrill the public.
Selection prerequisites:
- You must practise a craft included in the official Fine Crafts nomenclature
- Be conducting your activity in a professional capacity and as main activity
- Present a project with a refined and elegant scenography
- You must exhibit the following:
- Objects that are unique or produced in small series
- Works entirely designed and created in your own workshop
- Recent works
- Exclusively contemporary works
- Refonde, bold, elegant and original works
The 2026 selections will be made by the following panel of experts:
In 2025, 98 % of exhibitors were “satisfied” with the frequentation and 98 % with the quality of the visitor profile.
© Yves Trotzier
résonances boasts a unique atmosphere based on simplicity and generosity, and creates the ideal conditions for dialogue and exchanges between exhibitors and the public.
Many visitors come to the fair every year, mostly private individuals, collectors and art and design enthusiasts with discerning, upscale tastes, but also an increasing amount of professionals (architects, galleries, museums and museum shops, furniture stores, specialised gift shops, hoteliers, interior decorators, marketing departments of large companies, fashion designers, etc.).
With 20,000 visitors in 2025, résonances stands out as THE major appointment for all lovers of unique and beautiful hand-made objects as well as for professionnals includind decorators, interior designers, hotel owners, all those insearch of outstanding contemporary fine crafts.
It offers fine crafts workers the opportunity to meet an interested, well-informed and highly potential clientele.
A few visitors testimonials :
« A magnificent show, as always! I’ve been a regular visitor for years and was delighted to see so much diversity. Such a wealth of expertise, inventiveness, finesse and creativity. Well done to the artists and organisers, and we look forward to next year ! »
« Thank you résonances for helping us discover all these talented craftspeople every year! Year after year, this show dazzles me. Well done ! »
In 2025, 100 % of exhibitors praised the fair’s advertising methods.
© Yves Trotzier
Make the most of tailor-made communication tools and a targeted advertising plan to increase your visibility and reputation:
- important outdoor campaign with nearly 400 posters and 20 digital screens displayed
- distribution of over 85,000 printed communication media
- a website dedicated to the fair, which recorded nearly 25,000 visits during the month of the event
- regular publications on social networks (on résonance[s] and frémaa accounts)
- sending out press documents and monitoring press relations, follow-up of press contacts
- advertising inserts in the specialized professional regional and national press
- sending email campaigns to our visitor database and to the press
- direct Marketing on file to AB+ targets
- numerous in advance promotional actions (teaser shown in cinemas, etc.)
In 2025, 97.2 % made direct sales during the fair, and 81.7 % of the exhibitors made interesting contacts likely to result in subsequent orders.
88.1 % of exhibitors say they are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their sales during the fair.
Every year, résonances is increasingly being seen as a real business trigger, an essential factor in the sector’s economy, as shown by the commercial impact with an average turnover per exhibitor in 2025, which peaked at €7,620.
Manning a stand at the fair gives you the opportunity to engage in direct dialogue with a quality audience with high purchasing power, and to develop a new clientele and new markets in optimal conditions.
Beyond the general public, résonances allows you to meet major stakeholders in your market (collectors, architects, designers, decorators, galleries, boutiques, museums…) and thus extend your business and partner network.
The scenography was approved by 98 % of exhibitors in 2025.
Over an area of 6,100 m², résonances maintains top rate aesthetics through appealing scenography to provide exhibitors with a tailor-made and contemporary setting.
To encourage people to reflect on the fine crafts, their inherent challenges and their evolution, résonances organizes a yearly series of conferences, all of which are great opportunities for the public to exchange and discover. Films are also screened, and live demonstrations give viewers an insight into the secret world of artistic gestures and fine crafts workshops. Finally, educational workshops for children are organized to allow them to handle the various materials in a concrete and fun way. This programme is accompanied by other highlights, and culminates with the welcoming of a guest of honor and a thematic group exhibition.
In 2025, 100 % of exhibitors said they were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the welcome and the organisation.
A frémaa-certified organisation
Created and supported by frémaa since its inception in 2012, the résonances fair benefits from the skills and professionalism of an acknowledged professional organisation that puts its expertise at the service of this leading fair in the fine crafts sector. Created in 1996, frémaa now boasts more than 165 professionals in the fine crafts world admitted on the basis of the quality of their applications. Its purpose is to promote, represent, defend and enhance the economic development of its members. Thanks to its economic, cultural and training-related successes, it helps to extend the influence and development of the fine crafts sector.
résonances’ strength undeniably lies in the fact that the fair is organized by and for professionals in the fine crafts sector.
Every year, frémaa actively works behind the scenes to develop a new high-flying edition that confirms the fair’s privileged position in the world of creation.
A passionate team by your side
With more than 30 years experience in the events and arts and crafts sector, frémaa will be delighted to help you prepare for the fair with complete peace of mind. A team that is human, qualified and ready to listen, that will commit itself fully to your side and put its skills at the service of your success at résonances.
“I’m always delighted to take part in the fair; the exchanges and interactions with fellow exhibitors and with the public are truly enriching, and the kindness of the frémaa team is greatly appreciated. Thank you!”
Benjamin SALIER, cabinetmaker
“A truly well-designed and well-organised fair, thoughtful and supportive towards both exhibitors and the targeted audience.”
Paul JOUAN, leather craftsman
© Bartosch Salmanski
- Thanks to its border location, Strasbourg enjoys an exceptional geographical position at the crossroads of European economy.
- Strasbourg lies at the heart of one of the wealthiest and most dynamic departments in France. Bas-Rhin is at the top of the list of departments that spend the most money on interior design.
- As a European capital and a city that has been granted a “Ville et Métiers d’Art” quality label, Strasbourg is a privileged destination that enjoys undeniable economic and tourist appeal thanks to its strong cultural heritage.
- Since 2022, Strasbourg has had a magnificent Exhibition Centre designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, with a glass and wood façade and a long interior nave.
98 % of exhibitors attending the 2025 edition said they were “satisfied” with the fair, and 87.3 % of them intended to apply to attend the 2026 edition.
© Yves Trotzier
What some exhibitors had to say:
“The on-site organisation was perfect. I truly enjoyed the experience alongside my fellow exhibitors, both long-standing and new. The atmosphere of the fair is fantastic, the organisation highly professional yet friendly. The venue is very pleasant, and the Strasbourg audience is lovely. Everything runs smoothly.”
Julie DECUBBER, jewellery designer
“The fair is of outstanding quality, and the post-event benefits are real and extremely valuable.”
Atelier DOUARN – Sandrine RAMONA, ceramic artist
- Free entry for your customers (both daily and permanent, electronic and paper)
- Fair posters and flyers
- Your contact details on the website and the fair brochure
- Free breakfast provided every morning
- A private and convivial evening for exhibitors
- A list of accommodation at negotiated rates
- Free exhibitor parking
- White laminated panels: 2.80 m high and 1 m wide
- 30W LED floodlights (number defined according to the size of the stand)
- Stock storage space common to several stands
- Electrical supply
- Adhesive sign
- Grey carpet
Arts and crafts convey strong values and invite us to live and consume differently. For this reason, résonances wanted to become more involved in an eco-responsible approach to sustainable development through the certification of the fair as an eco-event, by Éco-Manifestations Alsace (EMA).
The fair is proud to have already been awarded Label 2 since 2024 (Label 1 obtained in 2023), but the aim is to reach the criteria for the higher labels as quickly as possible, and thus limit the impact of the fair as much as possible. Both the organisers and all those involved in the fair are fully committed to achieving this.
