Simon Dupety’s installation at Design Parade 2026 – All photos are by Luc Bertrand.
Design, Interiors. Design Parade 2026 turns twenty this year, and the Côte d’Azur is marking the occasion in style. Running until 30 August, the festival fills the modernist Villa Noailles in Hyères and venues across Toulon with product design and interior architecture exhibitions, competitions and installations. Here’s what caught our eye.
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20 + 10 exhibition in Toulon.
At Villa Noailles [47 Mnt de Noailles, Map], Swedish studio Front Design — founded by Sofia Lagerkvist and Anna Lindgren — stages an installation of recent work, including Geometriæ, a furniture collection for Moroso that looks like a 3D perspective drawing brought to life.
Front Design’s installation.
Malo Gagliardini builds an entomologist’s cabinet of curiosities, its tiny inhabitants tucked out of sight. The display centres on a modernist armchair in laminated bright red wood and a Bauhaus-inspired shelving unit built around primary colours — both produced with the Mobilier National.
Malo Gagliardini at Design Parade 2026 – Photo by Luc Bertrand.
The Pijama Party installation by Blanche Mijonnet is soft, glowing and immersive, built from memories of childhood summers in Provence. Woven baskets, flowers, warm light, Provençal textiles, canopy beds and oversized furniture combine to recreate a child’s-eye view of the world.
Blanche Mijonnet’s installation.
Simon Dupety contributes hybrid lamps conceived as living organisms, blending craft, nature and technology. By reworking ornament, the Bulb collection nods to both artisanal tradition and industrial standardisation, exploring what its creator calls “the metamorphosis of the living in the age of the Capitalocene.”
Simon Dupety’s installation.
Clément Pasquier‘s Temps Perdu (Lost Time) recreates Marcel Proust’s bedroom, coating floor, walls, ceiling, furniture and accessories in a monochrome spray of cork and plaster until architecture, décor and object become indistinguishable — a mental image of a space frozen, absorbed by time, like a fragment of memory made solid.
Clément Pasquier’s installation.
Korean designer Jaemo Lee takes his cue from Magritte and Surrealism for The Birds Room, where inside and outside blur into one another. A chandelier of stylised wooden birds and a ghostly feathered presence hover somewhere between sky and earth.
Jaemo Lee at Design Parade 2026 – Photo by Luc Bertrand.
Ecuadorian designer Tin Ayala blurs the line between past and future, high and low culture. His Pokémon Precolombinos — stirrup-spout vessels drawing on pre-Columbian ceramics — bring archaeology face to face with pop culture, and the ritualistic with the consumable.
Tin Ayala’s showcase.
Matisse Vrignaud and Lundja Medjoub reinterpret medieval timekeeping with Candle Clocks, contemporary instruments for contemplation. As the candles burn down, gravity-triggered mechanisms set off movement, rhythm and sound.
Matisse Vrignaud & Lundja Medjoub’s showcase.
Gaspard Fleury-Dugy presents Toron, a knitted collection spanning a cabinet, two lamps and a coffee table, treating yarn and line as shared threads (quite literally) of a textile-led design language.
Gaspard Fleury Duguy’s showcase.
Over at the Médiathèque Chalucet in Toulon [69 Cours Lafayette, Map], the 20+10 exhibition marks two anniversaries at once: twenty years of Design Parade 2026 and ten years of its interior architecture competition, built around the question “how to live in the Mediterranean?” Expect work from Nacho Carbonell, Constance Guisset, Mathieu Lehanneur, Jean-Baptiste Fastrez and others.
20 + 10 exhibition in Toulon.
Two decades on, Design Parade 2026 hasn’t settled into nostalgia. It still treats design as a live, curious conversation between craft, memory and the Mediterranean itself.
- All photos are by Luc Bertrand, courtesy of Design Parade 2026.
Tin Ayala’s Pre-Columbian creatures.
Clément Pasquier’s installation at Villa Noailles.
