This week, Paris is dominated by an array of artwork moments as Artwork Basel Paris and Design Miami Paris return for his or her third instalment after the 2023 debut within the metropolis. Throughout the French capital’s historic venues, from lodges particuliers to landmark flats, collectible design finds a spot to point out its most experimental aspect, with multidisciplinary cross-pollination alternatives that vary from textile-like remedy of strong surfaces to music merging with design.
Right here, we spherical up the perfect design exhibitions to see in Paris as Artwork Basel and Design Miami each land within the metropolis.
Paris design exhibitions to find this week
A triple invoice by India Mahdavi
Parenchyma, a solo exhibition by studio Kauani at India Mahdavi’s Venture Room #20, that includes knitted lights created Madrid-based product designer Inés Llasera and Mexican textile designer Inés Quezada
(Picture credit score: Ines Llasera)
This week, India Mahdavi phases three collaborative exhibitions: with AGO Initiatives, a show of Kauani’s Parenchyma cactus-shaped sculptural lights in her Venture Room, ‘an intimate research of xerophytic vegetation endemic to the American continen’, and an exhibition of chairs by Serban Ionescu in her Tiny Room gallery area. Ionescu’s anthropomorphic chairs mirror his Balkan origins: drawing from historical vernacular, ‘I deal with wooden like drawing or clay, improvised and direct, embracing all accidents,’ says the designer.
Serban Ionescu’s Folks Metropolis
(Picture credit score: Thierry Depagne)
Rose C’est La Vie by India Mahdavi and We Are Ona
(Picture credit score: Courtesy India Mahdavi and We Are Ona)
With culinary collective We Are Ona, she additionally presents Rose C’est La Vie, a flower-clad restaurant pop-up with Mexican chef Jesús Durón, whose title is a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s feminine alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, and whose interiors reference the Mahdavi-designed iconic APT membership in New York.
Venture Room #20, 29 rue de Bellechasse, 75007
Tiny Room #7, 3 rue las Circumstances, 75007
Charles Zana’s In Situ furnishings assortment
(Picture credit score: Gaspard Hermach)
Charles Zana presents his new In Situ furnishings assortment in a 500-square-metre Directoire residence that previously housed the Swedish Circle (and the place Alfred Nobel established the awards that bear his title). Positioned on the Rue de Rivoli, overlooking the Tuileries gardens, the residence has impressively excessive ceilings and enormous reception rooms. ‘You’re feeling such as you’ve stepped into one other period,’ Zana says.
As an alternative of making rooms for eating, entertaining, sleeping, and so forth., Zana has combined up his works in what he calls a ‘fantasy’ inside, creating ‘an emotion moderately than merely an aesthetic.’ The exhibition features a espresso bar run by pastry star Yann Couvreur the place you possibly can sip an espresso at a ‘Cocteau’ mushroom-shaped aspect desk whereas listening to the chilliness techno sounds of Sébastien Tellier and Ray Mang. Textual content by Amy Serafin
‘In Situ’ runs 21-26 October 2025, 242 Rue de Rivoli, Paris
Contributions
(Picture credit score: courtesy of Metals Design Milano.)
Curated by design business veterans Anna Caradeuc and Élise Daunay, the Contributions design pageant returns to Paris for its second version. With a arrange that encourages dialogues between design and different inventive disciplines, the pageant’s 2025 version weaves collectively design and music, with 5 installations pairing artists, designers and musicians.
The initiatives on show embrace Nifemi Marcus-Bello’s first Paris presentation, a brand new iteration of his M2 Shelf with an built-in speaker created in collaboration with La Boîte Idea – a design harking back to the lounge in his household dwelling rising up, scaled up right into a listening room with a soundtrack by Brazilian musician Rodrigo Amarante.
Elsewhere, Italian musician Andrea Laszlo De Simone presents the premiere of his audiovisual piece Una Lunghissima Ombra, accompanied by pure wine bar and micro-cinema Out of the blue byFrench design advisor and supplier Harold Mollet recreating the convivial spirit of an Italian bar with items by design collective Metals.
On view till 24 October throughout totally different areas:
Union de la Jeunesse Internationale, 2-4 blvd Rocheouart, 75018
Atelier Alterio, 57bis blvd Rocheouart, 75009
Out of the blue, 9 rue Saint Maur, 75011
La Pièce, 24 rue Camille Desmoulins, 75011
Lucid Interval, 94 rue Quincampoix, 75003
Salon des Nouveaux Ensembliers
(Picture credit score: Antoine Huot)
The Galerie des Gobelins hosts the inaugural Salon des Nouveaux Ensembliers, beneath the patronage of France’s manufactures nationales – Sèvres and Mobilier nationwide. Within the lineage of artwork deco’s pioneers, the salon gathers a brand new technology of inside architects invited to rethink the dialogue between type, perform and which means in up to date residing.
Below the theme ‘L’Ambassade de demain’ (the embassy of tomorrow), ten architect-decorators (9 French and one Brazilian) reinterpret the symbolic areas of diplomacy: places of work, vestibules, salons and reception rooms.
Their temporary is as pertinent as it’s bold: how can design at the moment embody illustration, openness and trade, whereas embracing ecological and social accountability? Every designer has imagined an experimental embassy area, choosing one particular space inside the constructing because the framework for his or her imaginative and prescient. These embassies perform as each interiors and laboratories of concepts, exploring diplomacy as a recent artwork of encounter. Textual content: Fabienne Dupuis
Le Salon des Nouveaux Ensembliers is on view at Galerie des Gobelins till 2 November 2025. 42 Av. des Gobelins, 75013 Paris
Salon 94 Design presents Massimiliano Locatelli & Fabio Zambernardi’s Nullus Locus
(Picture credit score: Giovanni Galanello)
Put in inside Locatelli’s non-public Paris residence, this assortment of objects created by the studio and Fabio Zambernardi with Graziano Ricami options embroidery on timber. Changing into surprising tapestries, picket vessels and furnishings items turns into a canvas for floral embroidery, delivered to life by the expert methods and equipment developed by Graziano Giordani.
By appointment solely
‘Un Souffle De Vent’ by Yves Salomon Editions X Dimorestudio
(Picture credit score: Matteo Verzini)
Dimorestudio and Yves Salomon Editions current a brand new immersive set up impressed by Georges Perec’s debut novel Les Choses, a textual content wealthy with descriptions of opulent interiors. Equally, the objects and furnishings on show are supposed to be contemplated, moderately than used, with Dimorestudio’s narrative method to design developed by means of tactile surfaces, a wealthy materials palette and a temper that exudes an ornamental richness whereas embodying a minimalism of type.
On view till 26 October 2025, 5, rue Castiglione, 75001
‘In The Temper for Contact’ by Nilufar at Métaphores
(Picture credit score: Courtesy Nilufar)
Nilufar Version and high-end textile firm Métaphores current an immersive set up that displays the tactile and emotional potential of interiors. Works by Nilufar Version are paired with examples of Métaphores’ textile excellence, crafting ‘a sensual, atmospheric world the place each floor speaks a language of materiality and craft.’
On view from 23 October 2025 to January 2026, 5 Rue de Furstemberg, 75006
Supply: Wallpaper
