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Exactly 100 years since the Surrealist Manifesto, this artistic movement continues to inspire, provoke, and electrify creation in all its forms. Starting in January, with the theme Sur/Reality, Maison&Objet will tap into its ever-fertile energy and the lasting resonance it holds for consumers.
Taking place across four districts in the capital city over 10 days, Paris Design Week will comprise exhibitions, installations, talks, open showrooms and networking opportunities.
The latest contemporary-design salon to hit Paris will debut during Fashion Week in a 3000 sq m Tuileries venue, aimed at a savvy, fashionable crowd. Launched last year by journalist Dan Thawley with Milan consultants P:S and trade fair experts WSN, the fair promises to showcase furnishings and materials already in production and available for […]
In 2024, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Maison&Objet, the fair will show its participants a revitalized future that combines technology and nature! This season’s theme, TECH EDEN, will enliven the January edition with reinvented feature spaces oriented toward the retail, residential, or hospitality industries. Places where nature will be very much on hand, not necessarily […]
The Change by Design Conference explore design's role in the climate crisis: reimagining needs, resource scarcity, human resilience, and symbiotic relationships among humans, nature, and organisms. The conference's first day is dedicated to Fintech and Green Tech Design, followed by two days delving into the impact of design on ecosystems and fostering a radical design […]
Sparking business opportunities and creative interaction between the world’s decoration, design and lifestyle community, Maison&Objet is your never-ending source of inspiration, constantly serving up exciting new finds: in the flesh twice a year at our trade fair in Paris; in the streets of Paris during Paris Design Week with our fringe event, ‘Le Off’; and […]
France Design Week is an event aiming to give visibility to the diversity and vitality of French design practices. France Design Week participants are committed through their initiatives to value innovation and know-how through design – a vehicle for economic, social, cultural and environmental development – and to make this approach as universal as possible. […]
COVID, climate change, wars, gender struggles and new technology acceleration: recent events question the societal choices we have made in the past years. As we realize that change is the only constant in our personal and professional lives, we recognize that business as usual cannot be the answer. To change direction, we need a different […]
Le FD100 is the only design prize in France rewarding the international action of its designers - a selection of top 100 objects and interior design projects that make French design stand out in the world. It is celebrated by a digital festival. Website WDO Member: Le FRENCH DESIGN by VIA
France Design Week is an event aiming to give visibility to the diversity and vitality of French design practices. France Design Week participants are committed through their initiatives to value innovation and know-how through design – a vehicle for economic, social, cultural and environmental development – and to make this approach as universal as possible. […]
The industrial design programme at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (DIPUCP) invites the schools of ENSCI Les Ateliers and Pratt Institute to engage in an open and multidirectional exchange of academic thought and practice, motivated by a common interest for revisiting questions over design’s identity, and in doing so, exposing questions over our own […]
The Change By Design Conference is the unmissable event for visionaries and practitioners. This edition offers you a sharing of experiences and testimonies of struggles, victories, but also personal failures, stimulating reflection allowing to learn from oneself and from others. Change By Design, by Johnson, these are three days of unique and disruptive conferences, bringing […]
The Biennale, 1.618 Paris’s flagship event, is a unique experience that combines a marketplace, an innovation space, a contemporary art exhibition, and a think tank. Renowned from 2009 for its bold scenography, the event contributes to changing consumers’ behaviour by offering concrete, inspiring, alternatives and a different approach to sustainable development: raising awareness while fostering the sense of beauty. Website
PARIS DESIGN WEEK is fast becoming the definitive cultural counterpoint that is raising the bar for design weeks across the world. Overlapping the M&O PARIS September show and uniting the French and an increasingly international design community, the PDW city becomes immersed in promenades, cocktails, exhibitions… culminating into the celebration of emerging talents at LE […]
The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture rewards five architects each year who contribute to a more equitable and sustainable development and build an innovative and participatory approach to meet the needs of companies. The originality of the prize is to gather them in a unifying scene, to enrich the global debate. Attentive to emerging scenes, […]
At a time when ecological and social urgency makes more than ever the need for a new thinking and making of the common, we will question design on its ability to contribute to the making of its cultural organ, the community, from which psychosomatically springs, the common affect and the territory.More than thirty scientists, philosophers, […]
