Fourteen highlights at Paris Design Week 2026
Our guide to Paris Design Week 2026 features exhibitions and installations reimagining the Arc de Triomphe and La Bastille, while historic courtyards and gardens frame mesmerising showcases.
Elizabeth Leriche’s ‘Archaeology of the Future’ explores decor trends
Conceived as a design journey across eras, the What’s New in Decor exhibition unfolded as an Archaeology of the Future: from neoclassical to Art Deco and neo-futurism.
Symposion by Anthony Guerrée: Conversations Etched in Marble
With the Symposion furniture collection, the French designer crafts a poetic design dialogue between marble and memory.
Paris Deco Off 2026: Six Adventurous Textile Journeys
From lush French gardens to exotic forests and cosmic voyages, Paris Deco Off 2026 interweaves tactile patterns and adventurous storytelling in textile and wallpaper design.
Harry Nuriev’s Transformism exhibition highlights the power of design-[re]thinking
What if we reinvented instead of inventing? At the designer’s ‘Transformism’ showcase in Paris, past and future meet, beginning with ordinary objects dressed in a metallic finish.
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.
Resonating Ping Pong Table: A Design Symphony of Play and Sound
Whenever ‘played,’ James de Wulf’s Resonating Ping Pong Table responds with a healing sound bath, turning each match into performative art.
Jean Nouvel’s Fondation Cartier in Paris is an Artwork in Motion
The new home of the Fondation Cartier adapts seamlessly to artists and their ideas. Moving floors create a dynamic space of uninhibited inspiration.
Objets Trouvés: Harry Nuriev sparks creative exchange, turning unwanted belongings into art
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.
Designers of Tomorrow: Apple and Design Miami Celebrate Emerging Visionaries
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 by Jimmy Delatour is a design glitch merging Ancient echoes with futuristic visions
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.
Maison&Objet Shines a Spotlight on Seven German Talents
These seven German talents offer a glimpse into the future—where heritage and modernity blend into something truly inspiring.
Spinning Around: Sophia Taillet Designs a Hypnotic Dance of Mirrors in the Heart of Paris
Nine rotating mirrors choreograph a silent ballet under the open sky in the courtyard of the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris.
Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau’s ‘Labyrinthe’ in Paris is half fairytale, half design playground
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.
Folie: A Multisensory Pause for the Mind at Hôtel de Sully
At Paris Design Week, the Folie installation blends design, fragrance, and sound into a haven for mental well-being.”
Paris Design Week 2025: Fifteen must-visit exhibitions in the Ville Lumiére
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.
Souvenir d’un Futur: Laurent Kronental Captures Paris’ Brutalist Melancholia
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.
Maison & Objet 2025: neo-surrealism or rational minimalism?
Tableware reinterpreting surrealist art vs seats with an essential silhouette. Check out what we liked at Maison & Objet 2025.
Design trend: Neo-surrealism takes over Maison & Objet 2025
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?
DesignMiami Paris 2024: Twelve Highlights at L’Hôtel de Maison
DesignMiami Paris 2024 features over twenty renowned international design galleries in dialogue with the Parisian mansion’s stunning interiors and gardens.
Uchronia and Pierre Renart present stunning installations at the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris
At Paris Design Week, Hôtel de la Marine hosts a tribute to the grand French-style beds of the past and an enveloping hammock made of sect wooden slats.
The Eau Fraîche installation blends design and perfumery in Paris
Eau Fraîche is a poetic installation with a sustainable message inviting visitors to refresh from a scented water fountain.
Surfaces and volumes intertwine in the ‘Squeeze’ installation by Paul Cocksedge in Place des Vosges
Large compressed balloons create an optical confusion of 2D and 3D in Paul Cocksedge’s Squeeze installation in the heart of Paris.
Paris Design Week 2024: 10 Highlights under the Eiffel Tower
Paris Design Week 2024: Mirror games in Place des Vosges, scented fountains and a monumental and flamboyant master bed in a palace’s courtyard.
Grand Palais Éphémère, a temporary architecture worshipping judo and art under the Eiffel Tower
The Grand Palais Éphémère: Wilmotte & Associés built an ephemeral timber-made urban ecology project in the heart of Paris during the Olympics.
Paris 2024 Olympic Cauldron flies over Paris with a fuel-free flame
A 7-metre-diametre ring of fire topped by a monumental hot-air balloon took to the skies over the French Capital. The Paris 2024 Olympic Cauldron by Mathieu Lehanneur shines with a 100% electric flame made of water and light and highlights the French Capital’s link to the theme of flight.
Paris Olympics architecture: eight brilliant venues hosting the Games
Paris Olympic architecture: from the Eiffel Tower to Versailles, the French capital gears up for the Games with brilliant renovation projects, temporary venues and a sustainable attitude.
Le Grand Palais in Paris reopens after a major renovation by Chatillon Architectes
Chatillon Architectes ushered the Grand Palais into a new era, safeguarding its timeless relevance and ensuring it continues to be a nexus for creativity, innovation, and grandeur.
Paris Olympic Medals feature iron from the Tour Eiffel
LVMH French jeweller Chaumet designed the Paris Olympic Medals like a piece of high jewellery inspired by three themes: hexagon, radiance, and setting.
Paris Olympic Torch ‘ripples’ like the Seine river surface
For the Paris Olympic Torch, French designer Mathieu Lehanneur drew inspiration from Paris 2024’s main themes: Equality, Water, and Peace.