Design Miami Paris 2025: Fantastic Beasts in the French Capital

Fairy tale elephants, luminous pigeons, perforated creatures, and a rabbit-bird-fish. Quirky beasts thrive at Design Miami Paris 2025.
Maison & Objet, Paris Design Week and Design Miami Paris. The French Capital is a playground of creativity.

Fairy tale elephants, luminous pigeons, perforated creatures, and a rabbit-bird-fish. Quirky beasts thrive at Design Miami Paris 2025.

Whenever ‘played,’ James de Wulf’s Resonating Ping Pong Table responds with a healing sound bath, turning each match into performative art.

The new home of the Fondation Cartier adapts seamlessly to artists and their ideas. Moving floors create a dynamic space of uninhibited inspiration.

At the stunning Petits-Augustins chapel in Paris, artist and designer Harry Nuriev’s Objets Trouvés transforms forgotten or unneeded objects into a participatory living cycle of art, exchange, and renewal.

In Paris, the Designers of Tomorrow exhibition celebrates imagination, materiality, and the tools shaping the future—proof that tomorrow’s design is already in brilliant hands.

POMPEII-X furniture collection blends ancient Roman aesthetics with a contemporary twist. Inspired by Quantum Physics theories, parallel realities, and how new technologies can alter history and facts, the collection wasn’t purposely AI-generated to highlight today’s new paradox.

These seven German talents offer a glimpse into the future—where heritage and modernity blend into something truly inspiring.

Nine rotating mirrors choreograph a silent ballet under the open sky in the courtyard of the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris.

Get lost in a maze of design at the Hôtel de la Marine. Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau created a whimsical ‘Labyrinthe’ of fabrics, myths, and treasures in the courtyard and halls of an 18th-century palace.

At Paris Design Week, the Folie installation blends design, fragrance, and sound into a haven for mental well-being.”

Maison & Objet Fall 2025 looks ahead, showcasing new talents and bold collaborations—from the next generation of German designers to visionary entrepreneurs and emerging brands. “An open house, open to all,” says new Artistic Director Amelie Pichard.

Paris Design Week 2025 sweeps across the French capital—think blooming textile corals, playful plastic glamping, spinning mirrors, a craft-filled labyrinth, and even a design disco club.

Brutalist melancholia and modernist utopias: Laurent Kronental’s ‘Souvenir d’un Futur’ photo essay delves into the concrete ocean of expansive real estate around Paris and portrays the ‘urban veterans’ residing within it.

Tableware reinterpreting surrealist art vs seats with an essential silhouette. Check out what we liked at Maison & Objet 2025.

Water lilies, Art Deco architecture, Mediterranean homes and psychedelic vibes from the ‘70s inspired our favourite textile collections at Paris Deco Off 2025.

Faye Toogood’s Womanifesto showcase explores the designer’s creative process as a woman in an industry ruled by men.

We inhabit a complex and chaotic world where reality, dreams, and AI converge to create a new hybrid vision for tomorrow’s design. Is this Neo-Surrealism?

At the Parisian fair, seven Korean ‘rising talents’ worked with raw stones, fully threaded bolts, horse hair and recycled newspapers.