Nesting tables by Julia Bourel -

S.LEBLANC / 20 MINUTES

  • The Paris Design Week, which is presented as a tour through a set of showrooms and galleries in the capital, is maintained in September, unlike the Maison et objet fair.

  • This is the opportunity to take stock of the style at home.

  • As a result of the health crisis, two trends are opposed: one minimalist and introverted, the other more warm and extroverted.

Paris Design Week invites you to come back to take an interest in the house.

Protective matrix during confinement, sealed bubble in the face of danger from the outside ... the house was also seen as the place from which to escape as soon as the sun pointed the tip of its nose.

And that's good because we had to go out to find the latest trends in showrooms and galleries in the capital.

What are consumers looking for and what inspires designers in this hidden re-entry?

After the (new) tastes and (new) colors mentioned at the end of last week, it's time for tops and flops in terms of furniture and objects, with the always wise comments of Vincent Grégoire, style director at Nelly Rodi.

The arts sit down to the table

Is this an effect of video conference aperitifs?

"During confinement, we paid particular attention to the decoration of the table," recognizes Vincent Grégoire.

Aperitifs set up on pretty tablecloths, with subdued lights… “It was a way of re-enchanting these daily meetings” To show that our aperitifs, even virtual, could be distinguished from each other.

The arts of the table are on the rise.

Containers, bowls or salad bowls, such as cutlery and utensils or food processors.

In sometimes implausible materials, such as the carafe that Emmanuelle Roule and Julien Benayoun made with a 3D printer in sandstone sand and beeswax.

One of the unusual objects that the podcaster fan of design Hélène Aguilara spotted and presented at the Commines space (Paris 3rd) under the label “Tomorrow plus beautiful!

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Light knows music

Among the objects presented until September 12 by the 250 exhibitors of Paris Design Week, we have rarely seen so many bedside lamps or waking up lamps with progressive lighting, such as Alto from the start-up Jaune Fabrique, equipped with small tops. - speakers, each prettier than the next.

Alto lamp presented at Paris Design Week - S.LEBLANC / 20 MINUTES

They are often French, produced in partnership with suppliers of playlists such as radio stations, not yet all really connected, but it will come ...

Also in force, objects of industrial or robotic inspiration, of a use more functional than decorative.

Although they may turn out to be aesthetic despite everything.

Dyson vacuums, for example, which men are very fond of because they look like

Ghostbusters'

ghost guns

, set the tone.

And it is rather a good thing when we defend parity in the household as in the DIY or the kitchen.

Coffee tables are multiplying

"The large coffee table in the living room installed in front of the TV, on the other hand, it's over," warns Vincent Grégoire.

Because television, sometimes, with many people, has disappeared in favor of the screens that we consult solo.

Suddenly, "we are witnessing a proliferation of small modular tables", one for each member of the family, where everyone can put their smartphone, tablet, e-reader or laptop.

Nesting tables by Julia Bourel - S.LEBLANC / 20 MINUTES

As for televisions, there again, two tendencies are opposed: "there are those who continue to want to showcase it" because it is big and they are proud of it (or because it was very expensive. ).

And those who want to make it disappear by hiding it in a piece of furniture or by giving it the appearance of a painting on the wall.

This is how the trompe l'oeil decorative effects and everything that gives the impression of being able to enlarge the rooms are on the rise.

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