Maison&Objet January 2024: a new beginning

Despite those who declared the end of fairs and meetings with the Covid pandemic, four years after the severe emergency, people are back to traveling and seeing each other live. And the trade fairs are gradually catching their breath, though in some cases certainly scaled back. What had already emerged in the pre-Covid period is that today fairs are losing progressively their commercial function, becoming more and more platforms for exchange, cultural as well as commercial.

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Maison&Objet 2024 – Future On stage. Photo Anne-Emmanuelle Thion, courtesy Maison&Objet

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Formafantasma at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024

Guest of Honour at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024 is Formafantasma, the Italian design duo. In today’s design scene, the Formafantasma studio stands out as one of the most prolific. In fact, the studio has exhibited his works in galleries and museums worldwide. The research-intensive studio uses design as an agent of social and environmental transformation. Its mission is to demonstrate that design is much more than a tool for conceiving objects; it can change entire systems.

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Formafantasma, photo by Gregorio Gonella, courtesy of Stockholm Furniture Fair

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Courmayeur Design Week-end 2024

The fourth edition of Courmayeur Design Week-end returns February 1-4, 2024. Like every edition, the event includes lectures, exhibitions, and convivial moments.
One of these moments, new to 2024, is the “Courma Beach,” a beach on the snow. An idea to use the Courmayeur Sport Center tennis court in the winter months. Courmayeur Beach will host a snow-beach volleyball court, classic Versilia wooden deckchairs and a bar with Oysters&Champagne.

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Elena Salmistraro: Designer of the Year at Ambiente 2024

Elena Salmistraro, a designer from Milan, is the Designer of the Year at Ambiente 2024.
Product designer and artist born and based in Italy, Elena Salmistraro has been permanently on the list of the 100 most important design personalities of AD Italy, Germany, and France, and Marie Claire Maison for years.
In 2022, she won the Frame Design Award as “Best Designer,” and in 2023, Forbes magazine included Elena Salmistraro in its list of 100 successful Italian women.

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Elena Salmistraro (photo from Elena Salmistraro website)

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Maison & Objet 2024: what to expect

Maison&Objet 2024 celebrates 30 years of French inspiration in furniture, design and lifestyle. To celebrate this anniversary, the show will take visitors on a journey into an enchanted future, where technology and nature coexist in harmony. The underlying theme of Maison&Objet 2024 is TECH EDEN: the fair, Maison & Objet in the City, and the virtual platform M.O.M. will develop around this thread.

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Outonomy – installation by Mathieu Lehanneur

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Mathieu Lehanneur: Designer of the Year at Maison & Objet 2024

Mathieu Lehanneur , who designed the Olympic Torch and the Olympic Cauldron for Paris 2024, is “Designer of the Year” at Maison & Objet 2024. This award honors a prominent personality in the international design scene at each January edition. During Maison & Objet, January 18-22, 2024, Mathieu Lehanneur will create a setting dedicated to his work, Outonomy.

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The Mathieu Lehanneur headquarter. Photo Felipe Ribon, courtesy Maison & Objet

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NOMAD Capri 2022

The tenth edition of Nomad, Nomad Capri, took place July 6-10, 2022, at the Certosa di San Giacomo on Capri Island. Nomad is a truly unique exhibition. Launched in 2017 from an idea by Giorgio Pace and Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, Nomad is a traveling exhibition of collectible design. For every edition, it seeks out the most exclusive locations and perfect frames for art design. The first edition took place at Villa La Vigie in Monte Carlo in 2017. After that, Nomad has traveled to Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel in Venice, Palais Bulles in Théoule-sur-Mer, and Chesa Planta in Sankt Moritz.

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