Petit Friture’s new Francis tables come with watercolour-style splashes
Misty transparencies and watercoloured hues create surreal reflections on Constance Guisset’s FRANCIS tables for French design editor Petite Friture.
Élancourt Music School: from place of worship to creative learning architecture
Brick facades and Mashrabiya envelope the natural light filled interiors of the new Élancourt Music School by OPUS 5 Architectes in France.
Asseyez vous – In Paris, galleries, designers and furniture brands celebrate the art of sitting
Lounge on a sofa tailored with a sustainable textile made from apples, lay yourself down like dandy on a pointe-shoe bench or flip the sofa-bed open like a clam for your guests… 8 innovative furnitures and exhibitions rethinking seat design.
Studio POOL’s Series 01 combines metal craft and contemporary design
Curved aluminum, brushed brass pipes and geometrical forms. Studio POOL harnesses the metalwork skills and heritage of Atelier François Pouenat to create Series 01 sculptural furniture collection.
Pinterest – Get pinspired by some of the best images from MaisonObjet2019
The very best of MaisonObjet2019 is on Pinterest. Explore our dedicated board… And do not forget to read our special report!
Paris Design Week 2018: 7 must-see exhibitions in the Ville Lumiere
A Japanese rising sun on the Tour Eiffel, Beirut’s resilience through design, 1.000 vases from around the world and more… 7 must see exhibitions at Paris Design Week 2018.
5 Brutalist buildings screaming for justice at Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
Venice Biennale 2018 – While the Robin Hood Gardens in London are being demolished, 4 other Brutalist buildings screaming for justice show that even concrete giants have ha chance to redeem.
Holy, holistic, resilient, rebellious and on-the-border: 5 recurring keywords at Venice Biennale 2018
5 recurring keywords at Venice Biennale 2018. National pavilions respond to to the FREESPACE main theme with visionary masterplans for Jerusalem Western Wall, a Trump defying US-Mexico border, the millennials’ occupation of Budapest’s Liberty bridge and more…
5 verdant skyscrapers aiming to turn our cities’ skylines into forests
Suspended green oases, energy-consumption extensions and wooden high-rises. Sou Fujimoto, Stefano Boeri, Stephan Malka, Big and Carlo Ratti designed verdant skyscrapers for a greener urban future.
Joia Meìridia neighborhood in Nice features Sou Fujimoto’s verdant towers and French Riviera style architectures
Lambert Lénack architects’ masterplan for the new Joia Meìridia neighbourhood in Nice features a tower with undulating, tree-covered canopies by Sou Fujimoto as well as buildings by Cino Zucchi, Chartier Dalix and more.
Egon furniture collection reflects the informal attitude of millennials at work
Multitasking side tables and pastel coloured poufs: Iratzoki Lizaso design Egon, a furniture collection for millennials’ co-living and co.working lifestyles.
MIRAGE space divider responds to millennials nomadic lifestyle to bring sky hues into the room
Juliette Le Goff and Nicolas Verschaeve design Mirage, a millennials-friendly portable soft-wall for co-living and co-working spaces.
Printemps renovation by UUfie features an Art Deco-inspired vertical dome
UUfie re-designed the interior spaces of Paris iconic department store Printemps inserting a vertical dome which creates a game of reflections spanning across 9 floors.
Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi opened to the public as the first universal museum in the Arab world
Louvre Abu Dhabi by Pritzker-prize winning architect Jean Nouvel mesmerises guests with a huge dome creating a “rain of light” over a floating village of galleries which explores humanity through art.
Papier Machine alternative pop-up book allows to create electronic toys
ENSCI students Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage design Papier Machine playful booklet which allows to create responsive electronic toys from “powered” paper,
The art of welcoming goes on show in Paris: 7 convivial tableware designs at Maison&Objet 2017
Lunar landscapes, Italian pasta rituals and translucent tea time according by Tom Dixon… It’s time for being together with convivial tableware in Paris!
12 must-see exhibitions at Paris Design Week 2017 spreading creativity across the city
Paris Design Week 2017: a massive talent incubator, slow food dinner rituals and up cycling workshops but also a fungi light show, an olfactive installation and design urns. 12 not-to-be-missed events celebrating creativity in the French capital.
SelgasCano creates an undulating and translucent pavilion for Fondation d’enterprise Martell in France
Madrid-based architecture studio SelgasCano designed a forest of hight-tech and transparent waves at the multidisciplinary foundation of Martell cognac brand.
2017 Venice Art Biennale celebrates art with 10 architecture-related pavilions
From Israel “molding” pavilion to US politically charged exhibition but also, floating shrines from Japan and a Bauhaus inspired recording studio. Archipanic picked up 10 architecture-related exhibitions at 2017 Venice Art Biennale.
Modern Music Centre by Hérault Arnod architectes in Northern France
Sculptural metal skin-cladded volumes and linked by a walk-through wooden porch compose the Modern Music Centre by Hérault Arnod architectes in Normandy.
Half bug, half samurai: Long Neck armchair by Färg & Blanche for Bolon shows off in Stockholm
“Innovators at Heart” exhibition at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair showcases Färg & Blanche’s Long Neck armchairs nesting visitors with a textile armour.
Iratzoki Lizaso designs Heldu office furniture combining wood and leather details
Inspired by traditional techniques of joining wood, Iratzoki Lizaso designs Heldu office furniture for Alki.
Bruno Gaudin and Virginie Brégal renovates the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris
Grand vaults and an alchemy of wood, cast iron and light. The historical site of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France has just reopened after ten years of renovation works by Bruno Gaudin and Virginie Brégal.
Maison Objet 2017: 5 comfortable ways to seat in Paris
Archipanic selected 5 comfortable ways to seat at Maison Objet 2017. From Pierre Charpin’s rainbow-ish modular seating to Petite Friture’s Modernist lounge… Please make yourself at home in France.
“Lisbon is an ideal city where to craft and develop human-driven design” says Emmanuel Babled to Archipanic
From Paris to Sicilian volcanos and Lisbon. International designer Emmanuel Babled tells to Archipanic how different cultures, craftsmanship and a human-driven approach shaped his designs… and led him to settle in the Portuguese capital.
The Trophy: provocative human powered 3D-printer by Urbain Studio
Pierre Clément Nivière designed “The Trophy” human powered 3D-printer to make us reflect on the process of design-making by using technologies with more awareness.
Succession Ceramic tableware collection by Färg & Blanche is handcrafted from tied felt
Färg & Blanche experiments with felt to create Succession Ceramic, the new organic-shaped tableware design set of French brand Petite Friture.
Kitchen on the Run project tours Europe to bond refugees an locals around a table
From Italy to France, Germany, Holland and Sweden. The Kitchen on the Run project aims to bring refugees and Europeans together around a table: a nomad container created by design students to make #EuropeABetterPlate.
Les Dandys: secretive fairytale cabinets of curiosity by Ibride
Ibride presents Les Dandys, a design collection of storage furniture hidden by portraits of imaginary and noble valets, confidents and secretaries determined to keep their owner’s secrets with an austere attitude.
Landskating: 9 great stories of concrete ramps from Tokyo to Paris
Landskating: 9 great stories of concrete ramps from Tokyo to Paris… What happens when architects and skaters team up to make cities friendlier?