Enjoy! The festivities have begun!

Reasons to celebrate may seem all too rare these days. The pandemic, then war, followed by inflation…Well, that’s just it. Our era has entered into resistance. The world is falling apart, so we’ve decided that we’re going to be alright. This is essentially the message that the Peclers trend, style, and innovation consultancy has offered as analysis, commissioned by Paris Design Week and Maison&Objet to sense what’s happening today. Extravagance, boldness, and humor are some of the remedies to the ambient gloom. Let’s bring the magic back to our interiors! This is what is motivating the world of design and decor. Participants in Paris Design Week have put themselves in sync. At the Bon Marché from September 13-27, this season’s exhibition will be entitled “Olé Olé”! And who’s its muse? Rossy de Palma. Iberian extravagance will be on show within this department store on the evenings of September 13th, 20th, and 27th, with “La Vie en Rossy”. It’s life colored pink, red, all kinds of colors. In its wake, the Bon Marché Rive-Gauche will show off brands that aren’t necessarily from the Iberian peninsula, but who express its spirit of “Movida”: BD Barcelona, Jaime Hayon for &Tradition, and the funny spice mills of 13 Desserts. Also on hand, AMCA OVAL, a design studio whose founders are inspired by the Space Age of the 1960s. Adrien Caillaudaud and Alexis Martial aren’t from Mars, but rather from the world of fashion. They have expanded their purview into the world of objects, whether they are rugs in a colorful palette, or aluminum lighting in organic shapes. In addition to being on hand at the Bon Marché, they have also been selected by Emily Marant to exhibit at Paris Design Factory in the Espace Commines. 

The joyful and carefree 1980s are coming back. In Montmartre, The Woods Gallery pays tribute to the Memphis movement born in Milan at the start of that decade. At the time, Michele de Luchi, Matteo Thun, Martine Bedin, and Ettore Sottsass laid the foundations for Radical design. The shapes of their furnishings were sometimes absurd, and the colors were kitschy, but the results were ultra-cheerful. The Woods Gallery has signed a partnership with Memphis Milano and will be selling a series of pieces that have continued to be issued since the end of the movement in 1988. And lastly, among the more joyful contemporary studios, Uchronia is leading the pack. Julien Sebban’s collective has been invited by Paris Design Week to lay its colors on the Orangerie and gardens of the Hôtel de Sully on Place des Vosges. The 18th-century structure where the Center for National Monuments is headquartered will see the emergence of Pop-inspired flowers, wave-like seating, and psychedelic color gradients. Olé!