MAISON&OBJET goes on show and spread its wing worldwide and whilst design planet touch base at the Parisian pivotal meeting point, the fair expands into both Asia and the Americas with editions in Singapore (10-13 March 2014)  and Miami (12-15 May 2015). That’s why this January the main theme is ELSEWHERE.

Throughout the year, the MAISON&OBJET Observatory seeks and scouts new trends and changing influences in order to support visitors and  in their study of the season’s secrets. Elizabeth Leriche, François Bernard and Vincent Grégoire pour Nelly rodi, three respected designers identified three sub-trend that will be on show as as exhibition focused on three keywords: LANDSCAPE, HELIOTROPIC, BEYOND. http://www.maison-objet-press.com

Landscape, Elizabeth Leriche

Elsewhere in Nature – The soothing contemplation of landscapes feeds our gaze and our mind. A quest for getaways, for higher ground is opening the doors of creativity. We are transcribing the reverie of a poetic, sensitive nature. Between the force of material things and evanescent lightness, between immenseness and microcosms, a physical and spiritual escape is teleporting our imaginations toward new horizons. Travel logs in lands of feeling.

Heliotropic, François Bernard

Elsewhere under the Sun – A solar art of living is wandering through enclaves that are festive or quiet, transgressive or meditative, in an often somber time. Hotly blazing suns are like the metal of a blade taken from the embers. Midnight suns, white nights, cold suns gleaming like mercury. The heavenly body that is the sun is irradiating creation. It is divine, artsy, sexy, sometimes kitschy and eccentric, luxurious and joyful. Irresistibly hot.

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Beyond, Vincent Grégoire pour Nelly rodi

Elsewhere in abysses and space – Immediate boarding for the most final distant lands. At the edges of space or in oceanic depths, we are diving into the unknown. A contemporary cabinet of curiosities is bringing together sea-punks and mermaids in mid- water, robots and astronauts searching for new frontiers. The infinitely far is opening up new vistas for creation. A bizarre beauty, strange and mysterious, stellar and astonishing.

Design by NAO TAMURA – Photo by Oscar Vecchiati

Design by LIAM REEVES – Photo by SYLVAIN DELEY