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Paris Design week 2018

6-15 September 2018

The world’s most beautiful city is gearing up for Paris Design Week, held on 6-15 September 2018 – a ten-day celebration of design and creativity, bringing the essence of MAISON&OBJET into the heart of the City of Light. Every year in September, Paris becomes the world capital of design, interior decoration and lifestyle.

The city is a living, breathing entity - places close down and vanish into oblivion, but others pop up in their place. Paris is a city constantly reinvented and rediscovered. So lace up your shoes, pick one of Paris Design Week’s itineraries and start walking! More than 200 venues are joining the event: showrooms, boutiques, galleries, ateliers, restaurants, cultural institutions, each housing an exclusive event.

For its eighth edition, the exhibition dedicated to young talents Le Off is leaving Les Docks – Cité de la Mode et du Design and moving to Ground Control Paris, in Rue du Charolais, in a temporary art venue owned by the French national railway company SNCF. What better location to spark the imagination of young designers than Paris’s foremost alternative scene? Pending rehabilitation, the former mail sorting centre, located just a stone’s throw from the Gare de Lyon train station, has been turned into a friendly cross-disciplinary venue where people can meet, share ideas, exhibit their art, make new discoveries and experiment. During Paris Design Week, the venue will become a stage for a selection of more than 40 up-andcoming designers from all over the world.

Committed to offering a springboard for emerging designers, Paris Design Week and MAISON&OBJET have set up a specific stage for them at the heart of MAISON&OBJET (Hall 6), part of a dedicated exhibition showing the works of former Rising Talents Award and Rado Star Prize winners. Named Born and Raised, this year the exhibition will be showcasing 21 French and international designers, who have come to present their new projects and collaborative designs. In the same spirit, Paris Design Week will include an exhibition for fourth-year students at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), curated by José Lévy, as well as an installation by watchmaker Rado, also invested in shedding light on young designers through its international Rado Star Prizes.

Organised for the sixth consecutive year, the Rado Star Prize offers a stage for the new generation of design professionals. This year, the theme of the contest is “Design Inspired by Nature”: a chance to research materials and textures, explore concepts like resilience, transmission, durability, raise awareness of new consumption behaviours, and end foreseen obsolescence. Ten finalists and one winner have been chosen by a jury of professionals: design studio Big Game, Rossana Orlandi, founder of the namesake Milan-based gallery, Hakim El Kadiri, Vice-President of Product Development at Rado, Yann Fabès, Director of ENSCI-Les Ateliers and Philippe Brocart, Managing Director of MAISON&OBJET. The winner will receive a €5,000 prize and a Rado True Thinline Nature watch. The finalists will show their designs at Le Off, on 6-9 September 2018, as part of the Rado exhibition at Ground Control. Visitors will also have a chance to take part in the contest by voting for their favourite contestant. The winner of the vote will receive the Public Award and a Rado watch.

Four of the city’s most vibrant districts celebrate the creative industry: Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Les Halles-Marais-Bastille, Opéra-Concorde-Étoile and Barbès-Stalingrad-Saint Ouen. And for each of them, a special evening filled with exciting private views and events, bringing together the entire design community. Thursday 6 September in Saint-Germain-des-Prés; Saturday 8 September in Les Halles-Marais-Bastille; Monday 10 September in Opéra-Concorde-Étoile; Tuesday 11 September in Barbès-Stalingrad-Saint Ouen.

The programme will also include an opening night for Le Off, to celebrate the young generation of design talents, ahead of the start of the event, on Tuesday 4 September, with a fun evening planned at Ground Control Paris, in Rue du Charolais. Important: Le Off will no longer be based at Les Docks – Cité de la Mode et du Design, the exhibition is moving to Ground Control, at 81 Rue du Charolais, Paris 12th. Spanning four districts of the city, Paris Design Week offers a rich programme of events exploring all fundamental aspects of design: materials of all sorts, light, colour everywhere, masters whose influence continues to inspire and the young generation, ready to rise to the challenge.

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