Terra Cosmos Design Trends at Maison&Objet Paris 

MAISON&OBJET PARIS is celebrating its 30th anniversary for the second time in 2024, following the January edition. This September, in conjunction with Paris Design Week, it is pointing to a new motto that envelops all the presentations, exhibitions and designers present: TERRA COSMOS. 

The emotion generated by the hot air balloon designed by Mathieu Lehanneur (M&O designer of the year) to contain the Olympic flame of the games, represented the fantasy of the human being that propels the creativity of design.  

A symbol and an aspirational dream of the human being that design brings down to earth, with the codes of innovation, craftsmanship, sustainability, creativity, all connected with high technology, which never stops advancing. 

The telluric materials wield unprecedented formal perspectives, with an eye on the stars, the proposals themselves have their feet on the ground, and the material takes on an essential role in each design. 

     

The RADICAL ANTHOPOCENE space, designed by Lionel Jadot, brings together 30 pieces of new talents in radical sustainable design. 

For Lionel Jadot, product designer, interior designer and artist of Belgian origin, M&O Designer of the Year Award winner, ‘TERRA COSMOS embodies a time of profound ecological change, my RADICAL ANTHOPOCENE proposal summaries a way of seeing the world at its roots. I have brought together 30 designers who work with the same philosophy, remake, recycle, reuse. Working means playing, assembling and integrating other cultures, the local context and the past. This is the future. Explains Lionel Jadot for the Silestone Institute.  

Maison&Objet Paris closed the doors of an autumn edition that attracted nearly 54,000 professionals to Paris, who were also able to immerse themselves in the festive atmosphere of Paris Design Week. An event dedicated to creativity that puts Paris at the center of world design events. 

THREE PROGRESSIVE TRENDS 

Terra – Cosmos Trend 

The dream and fantasy of the human being to know the cosmos, to integrate into it, to search for other forms of life, has been represented in different creative formats, starting with the always surprising space of Elisabeth Leriche.   

On the other hand, the curved and sinuous dimension of the forms, the soft and comfortable colors and the touch of imperfection of the artisanal sense, the human hand playing at forming intersections with technology, continue. And, above all, the unusual mix of materials, especially organic ones. 

 

The vision and fantasy TERRA COSMOS interpreted by designers Draga  & Aurel, curator Elisabeth Leriche, Atelier Jadot at M&O. And in the center of Paris, Paris Design WEEK, Paul Cocksedge’s mirrors at the Hotel de Sully, and Romero & Vallejo’s recycled paper armchair at the Galerie Ellia. 

Asia Creates Trend 

The immensity of Asia was represented at M&O by exhibitions, spaces, designers and brands from Korea, China and Japan. And they were astounding, no doubt. Sensitivity for craftsmanship meets a growing creativity. The signs of Western design are fading away and innovative identities are appearing and blazing new trails.   

 

China, Japan, Korea, has left a mark of creativity both at Maison & Object and Paris Design Week and Paris Design Week. The MUJI by Studio 5-5 project in a palace in Le Marais, the exhibitions at trade fairs and in the center of Paris Marais, the exhibitions at trade fairs and in the centre of Paris, where the designers ZHANG ZHOUJ designers ZHANG ZHOUJIE, ZHENGGUANG HOU, RECASA, 0 YI WANG. 

TREND New talents 

There is no age for the development of talent, the classic premise of youth is overwhelmed by exceptionally talented proposals that are not defined by the years of life of the designers, but by their energy and drive for innovation.   

One example is Laetitia Perrin, who, after 22 years at Louis Vuitton, turned to designing furniture and ceramic objects.   

In the FUTURE STAGE exhibition, M&O’s section representing the future vision of design, designer Paul de Livron made an impact with his Apollo wheelchair. 

   

New talents Laetitia Perrin, Paul de Livron, Gaspard Fleury, Jeanne Goutelle, INDALO, POLIMAIR, Precious Peels, Mali Ida Eriksson, Gary et Sam Bencheghib, KONQRIT, among others, dazzled with their creativity. 

Researcher, text and images: Marisa Santamaría