Paris Design Week kicked off last week transforming the city into a buzzing hub for the best of design, interior decoration, and lifestyle from across the world. The 10-day celebration of design and creativity, from September 6-15, brings the essence of MAISON&OBJET into the heart of the City of Light. More than 200 venues are joining the event, including showrooms, boutiques, galleries, ateliers, restaurants, and cultural institutions, housing exclusive events.Paris Design Week and MAISON&OBJET offer a springboard for emerging designers. This year’s exhibition “Born and Raised,” features 21 French and international designers with their new projects and collaborative designs. A dedicated exhibition showing the works of former Rising Talents Award and Rado Star Prize winners is on view in the heart of MAISON&OBJET (Hall 6). The event also includes an exhibition for fourth-year students at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs (ENSAD), curated by Jose Levy, as well as an installation by watchmaker Rado.Chantal Hamaide leads “The Talks at Ground Control,” bringing on stage the industry’s most influential figures, including Thomas Le Thierry, Matali Crasset, Pauline Deltour, Philippe Mihelic, Patrick Jouin, Ana Mir and Emili Padros of Emilianastudio, Nicola Delon, Didier Faustino, and Mathieu Lehanneur. The French edition of Rado Star Prize is being organized for the sixth consecutive year around the theme “Design Inspired by Nature.” Ten finalists and one winner presented their designs at Le Off, from September 6-9, as part of the Rado exhibition at Ground Control. This year’s winner, Jean-Baptiste Durand for his “Brume Lamp,” will take home a €5,000 prize and a Rado True Thinline Nature watch.One of the highlights of the event is the Eiffel Tower’s new lighting designed by mother-and-daughter lighting gurus Motoko Ishii and Akari-Lisa Ishii to evoke of the radiance of the rising sun as part of Japonismes 2018. A host of events, exhibitions, and activities in collaboration with Japan are being presented in Japonismes 2018 throughout the city.From innovative lighting to a celebration of material and color, Paris Design Week spotlights iconic design in its exciting line-up of exhibits from top design galleries. The week-long event also features a range of exhibitions from Paris’ domestic waste management agency Syctom as part of MAISON&OBJET’s theme Virtuous, highlighting the impact of quality, beauty, and — more importantly — fairness.Paris Design Week runs through September 15, 2018.For more information, visit: https://www.maison-objet.com/en/paris-design-weekClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the event. http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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