We’re a staff of design magpies, so all over the place we go, we search far and extensive for probably the most thrilling launches. We’re additionally extremely fond of up to date design’s historical past, so we naturally gravitate in direction of the manufacturers that every 12 months revisit historic creations and iconic items from the previous.
At Paris Design Week final week, a lot of our highlights concerned classic design: from Petite Friture’s momentous presentation of the model’s first ever reissue to the relaunch of historic French Maison Ecart from our buddy Pierre Yovanovitch, we had been spoiled for alternative.
Beneath, we deliver you our favorite furnishings reissues from Paris Design Week 2026.
Finest furnishings reissues from Paris Design Week 2026
Petite Friture
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René Herbst created the Sandows assortment of furnishings in 1927: the French designer, a frontrunner of the Fashionable Motion, was a pioneer of metal furnishings design, favouring the fabric for its mass-production prospects. The gathering is dropped at the long run by Petite Friture, the primary time the French firm works on historic designs, and options the Chair N°212, the Armchair that includes wood armrests, and the Daybed N°114. Herbst’s follow eschewed ornamentation in favour of fresh strains, and this trio of furnishings designs function the clear graphic language of tubular frames with an intuitive use of sandows to create the seats.
Agapecasa
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Agapecasa’s newest reissue is the 1959 ‘Schwob’ desk by Angelo Mangiarotti and Bruno Morassutti. The most recent chapter within the Italian firm’s ongoing exploration of Mangiarotti’s distinctive design universe, the desk is outlined by important kinds, structural precision and materials honesty. Initially designed for Le Corbusier’s Villa Schwob in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the desk is conceived as ‘a modular horizontal panorama,’ and options two aspect handles, built-in into the construction and changing into each a recognisable design gesture in addition to a useful ingredient.
Liberty
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To mark its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, Liberty has unveiled ‘The Home of Liberty’ wallpaper assortment, drawing on greater than 60,000 archival designs. The gathering distills the corporate’s historical past into three chapters – ’Arts Membership’ (1860-1875), ‘City Home’ (1875-1910) and ‘Painter’s Home’ (1960-1980) – reinterpreting historic patterns for up to date interiors. Seventeen hand-painted designs span panoramic murals, wide-width landscapes, floral trails, painterly ditsies, refined geometric and grasscloth finishes, all rooted in Liberty’s distinctive palette and textural richness. Author: Anna Solomon
Ecart
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Two years since buying Andrée Putmanhistorical design maison Ecart, Pierre Yovanovitch has relaunched it with an intimate presentation. The corporate will proceed to fabricate works by a few of the designers from Ecart’s outdated catalogue, that included Jean-Michel Frank, Pierre Chareau and Eileen Grey, and for its launch, Yovanovitch selected a set of items by American-Hungarian émigré Paul László. The newly-reissued items embrace an ‘Avondale’ sideboard, first produced within the Fifties, that includes a ‘woven’ wooden veneer (pictured right here).
Leleu
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In Paris final week, Maison Leleu unveiled ‘Classiques Modernes’, a set that revisits the home’s artwork deco heritage whereas embracing the freer, bolder and extra female path launched by Alexia Leleu. Designs on view included the ‘Ève’, ‘Coco’ and ‘Marilyn’ chaise longues and the ‘Aglaé’ cupboard, now reinterpreted utilizing up to date supplies, notably Dedar materials. The ensuing dialogue between craft, materiality and trendy expression feels genuinely contemporary, underscoring Leleu’s ongoing reinvention of French haute décoration. Author: Anna Solomon
Supply: Wallpaper
