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Organic forms, chromatic experiments and theatrical coups on the stage of the Paris Design Week.
Maison & Objet, the fair dedicated to interior decoration and furnishings that also involves the city, with a series of events in showrooms and other special places, will be held in Paris until January 20. The protagonist is beauty, domestic elegance in its most creative version, inspired this year by the theme Sur/Reality which could be translated as “above reality”.
This edition puts everything back into play, breaking down the canons of elegance and shaking up the sector. The doors are opened to innovation and experimentation with irony and design depth, surprise effect and concreteness. The emblem of this edition is Faye Toogood, named “Designer of the year 2005” for her ability to “unite art and everyday life to make the scenario of our lives less ordinary”.
The chromatic experiments of the new French style
Free chromatic palettes, organic shapes and unprejudiced experiments are accompanied by the usual elegance in the new collections of French companies, the great protagonists of the event. Pierre Frey, in his installation hosted at the Hôtel de Guise, dresses his iconic furniture collections with new fabrics such as Thalassa and Chroma, a series of solid colors in collaboration with India Mahdavi. In the background, the new wallpapers Parallèle and Deserts and the new collection of Fantasy carpets whose colors and graphic patterns are a declaration of love towards the ’50-’70 style.
Moustache, a brand in perfect harmony with the theme of the surreal, presents a preview of the Bold modular sofa by the Big Game studio: as in the armchair from the same collection, the padded tube element returns, repeated several times and in different colors, to form a sofa that recalls the sinuous movement of a caterpillar.
Color is also a determining factor in the new PYL lamp collection by Marie Cornil and Alexandre Willaume for Petite Friture, a company that researches and enhances uniqueness. Presented in floor, suspended and wall versions, this steel lamp is developed through bold and consistent blocks of color, between industrial and playful style.
Speaking of industrial style, Tolix also presents a novelty: the re-edition of the UD chair designed in 1958 by Jean Pauchard, today presented in a more minimal version and combined with the table.
The formal innovations of Italian companies
Italian companies also present themselves in Paris with an interesting innovative baggage, in which organic forms dominate, and technology is at the service of beauty. Designed by Shigeaki Asahara, Torino is the table lamp by Stilnovo. Inspired in its shapes by the orthogonal layout of the streets of the center of Turin, it brings with it the functional minimalism of Japan, the designer’s homeland.
Light is the absolute protagonist in the collections of Natevo, from the spectacular CCLight bookcase by Carlo Colombo to the Chiaro di Luna table by Ilenia Viscardi who also signs, for the outdoors, the Atollo table and coffee table.
Remaining in the outdoor category, Ethimo brings to Paris the collection of Innesti concrete vases by Studiopepe, in which this industrial root material wears the elegant dress of the designer’s style. The Boldini tables, by the same company, are instead in marble and characterized by organic shapes and generous consistencies.
Paola Paronetto also presents her new products at Maison&Objet, introducing the Bruco collection, characterized by different diameters and heights, combined, and the Girasoli collection, in collaboration with the designer Giovanni Botticelli combining ceramics and mirrors.
