designboom's guide to paris design week 2026: highlights in and out of maison&objet

designboom guide to Paris Design Week 2026

Paris Design Week returns from September 10th to 19th, 2026, bringing exhibitions, installations, showrooms, galleries, and events to venues across the French capital. Taking place alongside Maison&Objet Pulse, the 2026 edition once again spreads across four districts, with designers and brands presenting new work in museums, historic buildings, galleries, boutiques, and public spaces.

With hundreds of events spread across the city, knowing where to begin can be a challenge. designboom’s guide to Paris Design Week 2026 highlights the exhibitions, installations, launches, and unexpected encounters worth seeking out, while designboom itself joins the program with paris.designboom, its temporary home at 72 rue des Archives, hosting podcast sessions, workshops, and the paris.designboom apéro, bringing together the wider design community for drinks and conversation.

illustration by Haus of Grace

MAISON&OBJET pulse 2026

Maison&Objet’s September edition returns as Maison&Objet Pulse, running from September 10th to 14th, 2026, at Paris Nord Villepinte. The new identity marks a shift for the fair, which positions its September edition around design in motion, emerging talent, craftsmanship, and new approaches to interior architecture, retail, and hospitality.

The theme for this edition, Pulse in Motion, focuses on movement, collective energy, and the role of design in bringing people together. Across seven sectors, the fair presents immersive spaces, new products, craftsmanship, materials, and emerging designers, alongside programs including Design District, Future On Stage, the Rising Talent Awards South Africa, and (im)Pulse.

For 2026, Valencia-based studio Masquespacio serves as ambassador for both Maison&Objet Pulse and Paris Design Week. The duo has developed installations for the fair and the city, as well as the visual identity for the September edition, bringing their colorful and expressive approach to the theme of movement.

where: Paris Nord Villepinte, ZAC Paris Nord 2, 93420 Villepinte, France

when: September 10th – 14th, 2026

visual by Studio Masquespacio

Paris Design Week Factory 2026

For its 2026 edition, Paris Design Week Factory brings together a new generation of designers across four venues in the Marais. Curated by Jean-Baptiste Durand and Simon Geringer, the program takes an intentionally open approach to emerging design, bringing together practices across design, art, and craftsmanship.

At Espace Commines, around 40 proposals are presented within a scenography conceived like a photographic studio, with each work isolated and framed to give it a sculptural presence. The exhibition continues at 116 rue de Turenne, where the works are arranged as a more experimental environment, allowing different objects and practices to overlap and enter into dialogue.

The Factory also expands beyond emerging French design. At 10 rue de Turenne, the China Creative Pavilion presents BON GOÛT! GOODTASTE!, bringing together designers, artists, and creators working across design, materials, and gastronomy. At 16 rue des Minimes, established designers and publishers present work spanning contemporary design, materials, and craftsmanship.

where: Espace Commines, 17 rue Commines; Galerie Joseph, 116 rue de Turenne and 16 rue des Minimes; China Creative Pavilion, 10 rue de Turenne, Paris

when: September 10th – 14th, 2026

Fringe Friends by Maori Kimura Design Studio (Commines)

paris.DESIGNBOOM apéro

During Paris Design Week, designboom opens the doors of paris.designboom, its temporary home in the French capital, for an informal evening bringing together the wider design community. Friends, partners, creatives, and collaborators are invited for drinks and conversation, with no formal program or agenda.

The gathering takes place within a space that serves as designboom’s base throughout the week. Alongside the evening event, paris.designboom hosts 11 podcast sessions with INDX|Global and a Topology x Clarks workshop, turning the temporary venue into a meeting point for conversations and activities around design. RSVP here

where: 72 Rue des Archives, Paris, France

when: September 10th, 2026, 6pm – 9pm

image © designboom

installations and exhibitions

Joseph Walsh – Arcanum Formae

Irish designer Joseph Walsh presents Arcanum Formae at the Hôtel de Sully. The site-specific installation brings two monumental outdoor sculptures to the historic 17th-century hôtel particulier, placing Walsh’s work between the Orangerie and its surrounding grounds. The exhibition remains on view through Paris Fashion Week and Art Basel Paris, allowing the sculptures to be experienced in relation to the architecture, gardens, changing light, and history of the site.

where: Hôtel de Sully, 5 Place des Vosges, 75004 Paris, France

when: September 10th – October 25th, 2026

scale model of the Magnus Monumental Sculptures in the courtyard and garden of the Hotel de Sully | image courtesy of Joseph Walsh

Hanjimania – Hôtel de la Marine

At the Hôtel de la Marine, Hanjimania brings French and Korean designers together around hanji, the traditional Korean paper made through a centuries-old craft tradition. Curated by Catherine Lurault and An KangEun, the exhibition pairs six French designers, Studio KO, Pierre Yovanovitch, Constance Guisset, Aline Asmar d’Amman, Harry Nuriev, and Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau, with Korean artists and master artisans working with hanji.

A second parcours through the intendants’ apartments brings works by Korean artists into the monument, while perfumer Domitille Michalon has created a fragrance inspired by hanji to extend the material exploration beyond the visual. The exhibition is co-organized with the Province of Gyeongbuk as part of the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea in 2026.

where: Hôtel de la Marine, 2 Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France
when: September 9th – 27th, 2026

image by ChangKi CHUNG

Maison Lacmé — Astre Mobile

Maison Lacmé presents Astre Mobile at the Hôtel de la Marine, a transparent car reimagined as a mobile cabinet of curiosities. Artistically directed by Antoine Tauvel, ten French craftspeople collaborate for this project, reinterpreting familiar automotive components through materials including onyx, porcelain, wood, leather, lacquer, feathers, and shells.

Astre Mobile approaches the car as a collection of individual objects. A speedometer becomes a feather marquetry piece, the gearshift is made of porcelain, the steering wheel uses driftwood, and white onyx hubcaps can be detached and used as lamps. Other details, including the car’s logo, are transformed into jewelry, turning the automobile into a display of craftsmanship as much as a functional object. 

where: Hôtel de la Marine, Cour de l’Intendant, 2 Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France

when: September 9th – 27th, 2026 

Frederik Molenschot — Legenda

Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s Legenda is an exhibition of three new sculptures by Dutch artist Frederik Molenschot. The works, CL Sable, CL Mer, and CL Paradis, are part of his City Light series and draw on the dune landscapes and beaches of the Dutch coast, where Molenschot lives and regularly walks.

Form, volume, and balance are central to the artist’s process, with color introduced afterward and drawn from the landscape. In this series, the palette acts as a kind of key to the coastal environments that inform each sculpture, translating the changing character of sand, sea, and terrain into abstract form.

where: Carpenters Workshop Gallery, 54 rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris, France

when: September 17th – December 19th, 2026

image courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery

WU BIN (W.DESIGN) — THE PAVILION OF TIME

Chinese designer and interior architect Wu Bin of W.DESIGN presents The Pavilion of Time in the Palais-Royal Garden for Paris Design Week. The installation uses mirror-polished stainless steel and a translucent membrane inspired by the texture of traditional Xuan paper to explore the relationship between architecture, light, reflection, and the passing of time.

The pavilion’s reflective surfaces capture the surrounding trees, sky, and visitors, allowing the structure to visually shift with its environment. Its circular plan is divided into three 120-degree sectors, creating a route through the installation rather than a single fixed viewpoint. As sunlight passes through the translucent membrane, changing conditions of light alter the interior throughout the day. The pavilion therefore uses the movement of the sun as part of its spatial experience, turning light and reflection into elements that continuously reshape the architecture.

where: Palais-Royal Garden, Paris, France

when: September 9th – 20th, 2026

image courtesy of W.DESIGN

de gournay x antoine billore

For Paris Design Week, de Gournay invites antiques dealer and scenographer Antoine Billore to take over its Rue des Saints-Pères premises. The presentation brings together de Gournay’s hand-painted wallpapers and porcelain with pieces designed by Billore, alongside newly installed wallpapers and fabrics.

Known for his eclectic selection of historic and unsigned objects, Billore approaches interiors through combinations of pieces with distinct characters and histories. His contribution introduces this sensibility to de Gournay’s artisanal environment, creating a setting where the company’s painted surfaces and porcelain meet antique and upcycled furniture.

where: de Gournay, 15 rue des Saint-Pères, 75006 Paris, France

when: September 10th – 13th, 2026

image courtesy of de Gournay

Pli Office — Tout est Chaos

Following Pour que tu m’aimes encore at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in 2024 and Design Disco Club at Lafayette Anticipations in 2025, Pli Office returns to Paris Design Week with Tout est Chaos, an exhibition at La Gaîté Lyrique. Curated by Christopher Dessus and staged by PAF atelier, the exhibition brings together 10 designers around the theme of wonder.

The project looks at a world increasingly filled with objects that are designed to solve problems, questioning what happens when function, efficiency, and mass production leave little room for surprise. The invited designers are asked to create installations, objects, or specific situations that make space for gesture, storytelling, experience, and doubt.

Alongside the main exhibition, Pli Office is launching an open call for designers with less than five years of experience, inviting a younger generation to present work that finds its capacity to surprise through materials, form, use, history, or production methods.

where: La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France

when: September 10th – 13th, 2026

ROCHER FATALE | image courtesy of Pli Office

Yves de la Tour d’Auvergne — Plier la matière

Pulp Galerie presents Plier la matière, a retrospective of French designer and sculptor Yves de la Tour d’Auvergne (1927–2023), bringing together works from the 1980s and 1990s and focusing on the artist’s exploration of folding, a gesture he translated from paper into furniture and sculpture.

Initially trained as a painter, de la Tour d’Auvergne began experimenting with paper sculptures through an interest in light, using folding, tearing, and cutting to shape the material. He later developed a process combining resin and marble powder, allowing him to reproduce the whiteness and texture of paper while giving the works greater structural and sculptural qualities.

The exhibition includes the Alpha armchair (1982), Demi-Lune stool-table (1984), Olta chairs (1984), Albatros lamps (1988), Marmora chairs (1989), and Ellipse Pise table (1994). Across these pieces, the fold functions less as decoration than as a way of constructing form, organizing space, and catching light.

where: Pulp Galerie, 30 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris, France

when: September 10th – October 31st, 2026

image courtesy of Pulp Galerie

Visteria Foundation — The Matter of Earth

Visteria Foundation’s debut in France, The Matter of Earth: A New Generation of Polish Collectible Design on view at the Institut Polonais de Paris, brings together 11 Polish artists and designers whose work explores the relationship between material, landscape, memory, and place.

Curated by Eleonora Bojanowska and Bartosz Brylewski, the exhibition continues From the Same Earth, a project first presented in Warsaw in 2024, expanding it with new artists and commissions. Across sculpture, craft, and collectible design, the participating makers work with processes including forming, firing, carving, casting, joining, and transforming raw materials. Film and photography shown alongside the objects document these processes and the artists’ relationships with their materials and landscapes.

Presented in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Paris, The Matter of Earth marks and places contemporary Polish design within a broader conversation around craftsmanship, cultural memory, and material experimentation.

where: Institut Polonais de Paris, 31 rue Jean Goujon, 75008 Paris, France

when: September 10th – October 4th, 2026 closed September 26th – 27th, 2026

image by Tomo Yarmush

Anthony Guerrée — Contrepoint at Musée Bourdelle

French designer Anthony Guerrée installs Contrepoint across the permanent collections of Musée Bourdelle, creating a dialogue between contemporary design and the sculptural language of Antoine Bourdelle. Guerrée extracts lines, curves, tensions, and counterforms from the sculptor’s work and translates them into furniture, stained glass, textiles, and terracotta.

The installation unfolds across three areas of the museum. In the plaster hall, four stained-glass and ash-wood screens introduce colored light around Bourdelle’s monumental sculptures. In the sculpture studio and adjoining garden, mixed-clay surfaces, modules, objects, molds, and matrices foreground the processes behind the finished works. The painting studio presents the Orbe chaise longue by La Chance in a specially developed jacquard, alongside small pieces of furniture.

The project also connects with the museum’s existing design history through its collection of furniture and archives associated with Michel Dufet, Bourdelle’s son-in-law and an important figure in French Art Deco.

where: Musée Bourdelle, 18 rue Antoine-Bourdelle, 75015 Paris

when: September 8th – 27th, 2026

image courtesy of Anthony Guerrée

UCHRONIA AT GRAND PALAIS

Paris-based multidisciplinary collective Uchronia takes over the Grand Palais during Paris Design Week with a series of installations and design objects that extend across the historic monument. From September 11th to 20th, 2026, the collective founded by Julien Sebban presents Le Grand Bouquet, a monumental floral installation inside the Rotonde du Palais d’Antin, alongside an outdoor installation and a selection of objects at the museum’s Design & Craft boutique.

At the center of the presentation, Le Grand Bouquet transforms the Rotonde with a monumental flower inspired by the Grand Palais’ own decorative details. Drawing from the floral motif of the building’s mosaic floor and the vegetal mouldings along its arcades, the installation introduces illuminated petals that appear to emerge from the ground and follow the circular movement of the space. Circular seating at its base invites visitors to gather around the work.

The presentation begins outdoors at Square Jean Perrin with Équilibres Éphémères, an installation of colorful inflatable sculptures with rounded forms. Inside the Grand Palais’ Design & Craft boutique, Uchronia’s world continues through a selection of ceramics, lighting, cushions, furniture, and design accessories.

Among them is DAYDREAM, Uchronia’s furniture collaboration with French design studio Tiptoe. The collection reworks selected Tiptoe pieces through Uchronia’s approach to color and form, introducing wavelike solid-wood tabletops and altered silhouettes. Its four colors, Magma Orange, Chocolate Brown, Ice Cream Beige, and Astral Purple, are conceived as distinct emotional states.

where: Grand Palais, Paris, as part of Le Grand Bouquet; also Design & Craft boutique

when: September 11th – 20th, 2026

BAR STOOL

Designers Athime de Crécy and Quentin Frichet invite 27 French and international designers to rethink a familiar object: the bar stool. Presented at Espace Brownstone, BAR STOOL brings together original pieces created specifically for the exhibition. The works are installed within a self-service refreshment stand conceived as a temporary gathering place, allowing visitors to sit on and interact with the designs.

The installation brings together utilitarian and more expressive approaches to furniture, questioning the separation between design exhibitions and everyday use. Lectures and discussions throughout the week further activate the space, turning the exhibition into a setting for both conversation and participation.

where: Galerie Brownstone, 26 rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Paris
when: September 10th – 19th, 2026

image by Cluzel et Pluchon

1000 VASES

Returning to Paris for Paris Design Week, 1000 VASES brings together unique works by hundreds of independent designers from more than 60 countries, all exploring the same deceptively simple object. The exhibition turns the vase into a framework for comparing radically different approaches to form, material, and craft, from minimal and geometric pieces to sculptural, irregular, playful, and highly ornate works.

image courtesy of 1000 VASES

where: 8 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris, France

when: September 10th – 13th, 2026

SCULPTURE / LANDSCAPE New Figures of the French Formal Garden

Artist Johanna de Clisson brings Sculpture / Landscape to the garden of the National Archives, placing around ten white stoneware planter-sculptures along the courtyard’s formal axes. Set against the site’s columns, conical boxwoods, and classical architecture, the installation reworks the geometry and symmetry of the French formal garden through a more contemporary and unconventional language.

The pieces sit between planter, vessel, sculpture, and human-scale form, drawing on both the traditions of the formal garden and modernist precedents including the work of Rita Lawrence and Willy Guhl. Their simple, architectural volumes accommodate plants with Mediterranean hues, turning the landscape into part of the sculptural composition.

where: National Archives, 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75003 Paris, France

when: September 9th – 19th, 2026

image courtesy of Johanna de Clisson

MAISON PARISIENNE — ARABESQUE AT THE HÔTEL DE ROHAN

Maison Parisienne takes over the gardens of the Hôtel de Rohan–Archives nationales with Arabesque, a monumental site-specific installation by Pierre Renart. Set within the recently reopened heritage site, the project translates the ornamental scrollwork of the garden into inhabitable urban furniture.

Working in Moabi wood, Renart draws on cabinetmaking techniques while pushing the material into large-scale, sculptural forms.

where: Hôtel de Rohan – Archives nationales, 87 Rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris, France

when: September 10th – 19th, 2026

Pierre Renart, Arabesque at Hotel de Rohan | image courtesy of Maison Parisienne

GALERIE KOSTIA

An exhibition dedicated to lacquer takes over Galerie Kostia, using the material to explore shifts in color, reflection, and the perception of surface. The presentation focuses on how lacquer can alter the appearance of an object through changing chromatic effects and reflections, placing the treatment of the surface at the center of the exhibition.

where: Galerie Kostia, 4 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

when: September 7th – 20th, 2026

NICOLE WALKER — TOUT EST EN ORDRE

At the Swedish Institute, Nicole Walker presents Tout est en ordre, an exhibition that looks at ideas of order, restraint, and ‘good taste’ within Swedish culture through the language of fashion and art. Silhouettes, sculptures, and installations overlap throughout the presentation, using clothing and its surrounding visual codes as a way to question where fashion ends and art begins. Walker uses fashion as a framework for exploring everyday life, cultural conventions, and the strange that can emerge from the familiar.

where: Swedish Institute, 11 Rue Payenne, 75003 Paris, France

when: September 5th – 24th, 2026

Tout est en ordre | image by Erik Pousette

MAISON DU DANEMARK — DANISH DESIGN

At Maison du Danemark overlooking the Champs-Élysées, seven established and emerging Danish names presents a snapshot of the contemporary creative scene of the country. Among the participants are Kodanska, known for its handcrafted glassware, Tom Rossau with his sculptural paper lamps, and ARCHITECTMADE with Kristian Vedel’s Birds. The presentation also extends beyond Denmark, bringing together creative practices from countries including the Czech Republic, Finland, Mexico, Guatemala, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. 

where: Maison du Danemark, 142 Av. des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris, France

when: September 10th – 14th, 2026

© Smilzz France / Arthur, Maison du Danemark

IMA DESIGN PRIZE AT THE INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE

The Institut du Monde Arabe hosts the fourth edition of the IMA Design Prize, highlighting designers and makers from countries across the Arab League. Presented in partnership with Paris Design Week, the prize focuses on projects that reconsider regional know-how, materials, craftsmanship, and contemporary ways of living.

The competition is divided into four categories: Emerging Talent, Contemporary Craftsmanship, Impact Prize, and Grand Prize. The winners are announced at the Institut du Monde Arabe on September 9th, followed by an exhibition bringing together the finalists.

where: 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, France

when: September 3rd – 13th, 2026; winners announced September 9th

image courtesy of Institut du Monde Arabe

ALULA — THE LIFE OF FORMS AT LAFAYETTE ANTICIPATIONS

Lafayette Anticipations presents The Life of Forms, a collaboration with Arts AlUla, Design Space AlUla, and AFALULA, supported by Villa Hegra. The exhibition brings work developed through AlUla’s design residency programs into dialogue with pieces from the Lafayette Anticipations collection.

The starting point is transformation: forms shift, adapt, and acquire new meanings as materials move between landscapes, processes, and uses. Works developed in AlUla are presented alongside objects from the Paris collection, connecting the geological character of the Saudi landscape with the experimental context of a contemporary art institution.

where: Lafayette Anticipations, 9 rue du Plâtre, 75004 Paris

when: Paris Design Week 2026

image by Altin Studio

HOFF — PARIS THROUGH A DESIGN LENS

For Paris Design Week 2026, footwear brand HOFF stages Paris Through a Design Lens, a cultural activation developed with Jade Matcha Gallery and designboom. The project brings together design, art, and contemporary creativity through an exhibition by Paris-based artist and scenographer Clémence Mars, alongside HOFF’s NAPPA collection.

The presentation also includes Creative Talks with cultural voices, a curated map of creative destinations across Paris, and The Boulevardian Matcha, created exclusively for the occasion. 

where: Jade Matcha Gallery, 36 Rue Saint-Sulpice, 75006 Paris, France

when: September 10th – 19th, 2026

image courtesy of HOFF

CREATIVE MATTERS + RDAI – ZOOMETRY

Creative Matters and Paris-based architecture and design agency RDAI present Zoometry, an exhibition of hand-knotted rugs that translates microscopic structures found in nature into woven form. On view at Mouvement Modernes Gallery during Paris Design Week, the project brings computational design into dialogue with the expertise of master artisans in Nepal.

Inspired by spiders, butterflies, and coral, the collection explores the hidden geometries of the living world through six rugs. Each design begins as a detailed digital composition before being translated knot by knot into Himalayan wool and Chinese silk. Alongside the finished works, photographs and film by Nepalese photojournalist Narendra Shrestha trace the process from digital modeling to the weaving workshops where the rugs are made.

where: Mouvement Modernes Gallery, Jardins du Palais Royal, 11 bis rue de Beaujolais, Paris, France

when: September 8th – 23rd, 2026

image courtesy of Creative Matters and RDAI

ECAL × HELINOX – polaris

ECAL collaborates with Korean outdoor furniture brand Helinox on Polaris, a collection of portable lights designed by students from ECAL’s Bachelor Industrial Design program. Taking its name from the North Star, historically used by travelers for navigation, the project reimagines the camping lamp through Helinox’s existing vocabulary of lightweight structures, aluminum poles, spring clips, connectors, and tensioned textiles. The students use these technical components as a starting point for a series of foldable and portable lighting objects.

The collection includes a clip-on flashlight, a modular lighting structure, a textile diffuser, a sliding floor lamp, a collapsible bedside lamp, and a self-erecting lantern. 

where: Helinox Paris, 79 Rue du Temple, 75003 Paris, France

when: September 10th – 19th, 2026

image courtesy of ECAL

showrooms

veermakers

Swedish design house Veermakers opens its first Paris showroom in Le Marais, conceived as a hybrid between a design gallery and a private residence. The space brings together the brand’s furniture, lighting, and objects with architecture and art. The showroom presents signature pieces alongside new designs including the Yoshino Wall Lamp, Hoovs Side Table, and Set Dining Chair, Veermakers’ first upholstered dining chair. Custom elements developed specifically for the Paris space, including a kitchen and built-in sofa, extend the collection into a complete interior environment.

The opening also introduces a rotating exhibition program curated by creative director Louise Liljencrantz. The first presentation features oil paintings of the Swedish archipelago by Swedish artist LG Lundberg, whose landscapes bring another expression of Scandinavian light and atmosphere into the showroom.

where: 65 Rue de Turenne 75003, Paris

when: September 2026

image courtesy of Veermakers

Yves Salomon Éditions – Tactile Monuments

Yves Salomon Éditions presents Tactile Monuments, its first complete furniture collection, translating the Parisian fashion house’s longstanding expertise in materials and craftsmanship into furniture designed around the body. Developed by Creative Director Marcellin Boyer with Artistic Director Tamara Taichman, the collection comprises an armchair, sofa, ottoman, and daybed, all built around generous, rounded forms inspired by stones, caves, and natural volumes.

Shearling becomes the defining material, selected for its warmth, texture, and changing response to light and touch. Each piece is made through Yves Salomon’s Paris workshops, where individual panels are selected, cut, assembled, and sewn by hand. The resulting forms sit somewhere between upholstered furniture and sculptural volumes, using softness and comfort to offset their substantial proportions.

The collection extends Yves Salomon’s material knowledge beyond clothing and into the domestic environment, shifting its longstanding relationship with the body from something worn to something lived around.

where: 5 rue de Castiglione 75001, Paris

when: September 10th – 15th, 2026

image by Lucas Durand Fontugne

MÉTAPHORES | FRAGMENTS: FROM MATTER TO FORM

Métaphores presents Fragments, a textile collection by Emilie Paralitici, Creative and Image Director of the French textile house. Installed at the Métaphores showroom on Rue de Furstemberg, the collection focuses on the material qualities of wool, cotton, and linen, combining natural and engineered fibers into textured surfaces inspired by organic forms. The fabrics explore texture, volume, color, and light through bouclé, oversized yarns, sheers, plains, and upholstery textiles. 

where: Métaphores showroom, Place de Furstemberg, 75006 Paris

when: September 7th – 19th, 2026

image courtesy of Christophe Coenon

Stene Alexopoulos — Paris–Athens / Athens–Paris

For Paris Design Week 2026, Paris- and Athens-based architecture studio Stene Alexopoulos presents its debut furniture collection, Paris–Athens / Athens–Paris, at 34 rue de Seine. Founded by Jonathan Stene and Elena Alexopoulos, the studio draws on the two capitals and their shared relationship with classical architecture, translating this into furniture shaped by proportion, material, and craftsmanship.

The collection uses Greek Cipollino marble, red travertine, American walnut, stainless steel, and hand-cast pewter. Rather than applying color as a finish, the designers allow the natural tones and textures of the materials to define each piece, from the blue-green veining of Cipollino marble to the warm reds of travertine and the grain of walnut.

The furniture extends an approach developed through the studio’s interior architecture projects, where bespoke pieces are designed as part of the spaces they inhabit. Here, tables, seating, lighting, and cabinetry are presented as architectural fragments in their own right, bringing the studio’s focus on proportion and materiality down to the scale of the object.

where: 34 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris, France

when: September 10th – 15th, 2026

FAUTEUIL GKOURA by Stene Alexopoulos

Maison Philippe Hurel

At its Paris showroom, Maison Philippe Hurel presents a new scenography built around recent furniture and a series of newly developed material finishes. The exhibition brings together pieces including the Yumi armchair and Louisa table by Laclaux, alongside new lacquer treatments, wood species, textures, and material effects shown for the first time. 

where: 4 ter, rue du Bouloi, 75001 Paris

when: September 10th – 19th, 2026

image by Alexandra de Cossette

Scumacher

Schumacher’s new collection, unveiled during Paris Design Week 2026, is developed with Parisian artist Caroline Rennequin, translating her hand-painted floral compositions into textiles, wallpapers, and decorative objects. Shown at Schumacher’s showroom on rue Jacob, the collaboration preserves the vivid colors and gestural quality of Rennequin’s paintings while adapting them to the interior.

The collection draws from Rennequin’s recurring flower motif, which she uses to explore resilience, transformation, and the relationship between nature and the human body. Her loose, colorful compositions are reproduced across fabrics and painted papers, alongside pieces such as the Le Jardin tablecloth and Le Cœur de la Fleur cushion.

where: Schumacher showroom, 9 rue Jacob, 75006 Paris
when: September 10th – 19th, 2026

image © Clement Vayssieres & Max Kim-Bee

around the city

Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau — La Tempête

Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau takes over the Arc de Triomphe with La Tempête, a site-specific exhibition that transforms the monument into a journey through sculpture, sound, textiles, glass, ceramics, and scent. The project occupies the monument’s interior spaces up to its terrace, using the architecture as part of the experience.

The installation draws on Pradier-Jeauneau’s interest in absence and the unfinished elements of the Arc de Triomphe. Rather than simply filling the historic monument with new objects, the artist works with its existing spaces and their sense of emptiness, creating a sequence of abstract sculptures and sensory installations that encourage visitors to experience the building differently.

where: Arc de Triomphe, Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France

when: September 9th – October 4th, 2026

image courtesy of Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau

La Re-prise de la Bastille — Studio 5.5

Claire Renard and Jean-Sébastien Blanc of Studio 5.5 transform the Place de la Bastille with La Re-prise de la Bastille, a monumental textile installation created in partnership with Le Festival du Monde and Refashion. Set around the July Column, the project uses discarded clothing collected through Refashion’s recycling system to reconsider the memory of a site associated with freedom and revolution. The installation turns used garments into a collective work, bringing questions of reuse, sorting, and textile waste into a historically charged public space. 

where: Place de la Bastille, Paris

when: September 10th – 19th, 2026

image by Jean-Sébastien Blanc