The Off-Site Exhibitions Redefining Contemporary Design
September 5, 2025- Paris Design Week 2025 Key Events
This September, as the city shakes off the summer haze, Paris reaffirms its status as the global nucleus of design. From September 4-13, the 2025 edition of Paris Design Week, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary under the theme “Régénération” (Regeneration), transforms the capital into a sprawling open-air museum of contemporary creativity. Syncing with the trade behemoth Maison&Objet at the Parc des Expositions Paris Nord Villepinte, the week serves as a call for renewal and sustainable transformation.
Following a record-breaking year that drew a quarter-million international visitors, this year’s program is a curated journey into the most compelling dialogues between heritage and audacity, materiality and metaphor. From established design houses to off-the-beaten-path destinations like the artist residency Poush in Aubervilliers, these are the unmissable exhibitions defining the week.
Vert Nuit, Noir Jade
📅 September 1–9, 2025 📍 Galerie Wilde, 4 rue François Miron, 75004
This collective exhibition unites the talents of La Villa du Lavoir under an evocative chromatic theme. Exploring the spectrum from deep night green to jade black, the presentation unfolds as a sensitive dialogue between singular practices, bound by a shared mastery of material, light, and form.
Glass in Rebellion at the Swedish Institute
📅 September 3–21, 2025 📍 Swedish Institute, 11 rue Payenne, 75003
The Swedish Institute presents Blazing Grace, an exhibition that challenges a century of Swedish glassmaking traditions. Five rebellious artists: Fredrik Nielsen, Maria Bang Espersen, Hanna Hansdotter, Peter Hermansson, and Kirsten Vikingstad Hermansson, shatter the codes of Swedish Grace with works that drip, explode, and twist. Moving beyond smooth, transparent perfection, their glass cracks, warps, and even incorporates automotive paint. This provocative showcase celebrates material experimentation where nothing is forbidden, transforming poetic glass into pop-art statements. An opening reception will be held on September 3 from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM.
Le Labyrinthe by Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau
📅 September 3–21, 2025 📍 Hôtel de la Marine, 2 place de la Concorde, 75008
A monumental immersive installation weaving contemporary design, artistic craftsmanship, and French heritage into one poetic narrative. This three-chapter journey through the historic Hôtel de la Marine pays vibrant homage to mythic storytelling and timeless savoir-faire. The exhibition’s courtyard chapter is open free to the public.
Paris Design Week Factory: Global Delegations
📅 September 4–13, 2025 📍 Multiple venues in the Marais, 75003 / 75004
The Factory program transforms the Marais into an international design hub across multiple prestigious venues. Galerie Joseph presents cutting-edge contemporary design at its Rue de Turenne and Rue Froissart locations, while Espace Commines offers innovative spatial experiences on Rue Commines. Ellia Art Gallery stages artistic design dialogues across its dual spaces on Rue de Turenne. Alongside resident talents from the Jardin des Métiers d’Art et du Design, these venues welcome special delegations from Argentina, Uzbekistan, and Guatemala. The program celebrates folk arts through contemporary interpretation, featuring handcrafted carpets and traditional Central Asian cushions reimagined through modern design perspectives across this vibrant gallery circuit.
BHVP x Paris Design Week
📅 September 4–14, 2025 📍 Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), 75004
The historic library transforms into an unexpected hub for design, hosting three exhibitions centered on the living world, the artisan’s gesture, and material transformation. The annual Bois Français & Design project by Fibois is the highlight, showcasing over twenty emerging talents working with local wood. They are joined by organically inspired pieces from studio Nysædition and the archaic, utopian stoneware sculptures of ceramist Elisa Uberti.
Studio: Marlène Huissoud
📅 September 4–14, 2025 📍 Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, 75008
Experimental designer Marlène Huissoud unveils an immersive installation that transforms the historic Boardroom into her visionary studio. In this space, art and design converge, challenging conventional production methods and questioning our relationship with natural resources. Her work invites deeper ecological awareness, creating a dialogue on design’s role in society. Notably, Huissoud is a 2024 Grands Prix de la Création laureate.
Les Métamorphoses du Parquet
📅 September 4–9, 2025 📍 La Fabrique Pointcarré, 20 bis rue Gabriel Péri, 93200 Saint-Denis
The circular economy finds poetic expression in this thoughtful exhibition organized by Fibois Île-de-France. It presents furniture and objects crafted entirely from salvaged parquet flooring—a powerful statement on sustainability that reimagines historical materials as functional art.
Intérieurs Jour by Jacques Pépion
📅 September 4 – October 12, 2025 📍 Maison de Victor Hugo, 6 place des Vosges, 75004
The celebrated “portraitist of interiors” unveils forty daylight photographs, including color prints, platinum-palladium works, and polaroids. His rigorous, elegant selection captures the soul of exceptional spaces—from international palaces to private residences—rendered through a sensual language of light that elevates the work of interior architects and art collectors. Admission is free.
Accommodating Remnants
📅 September 4–13, 2025 📍 Caserne des Minimes, 75003
The Société Choletaise de Fabrication partners with Made by Bobine and École Duperré for this inspired collaboration. Eleven scenography students transform industrial textile waste—cords, braids, and laces—into poetic installations that question our relationship with production excess. The exhibition unfolds as a thoughtful journey through circular design, featuring objects and interactive devices that celebrate sustainable innovation. A vernissage will be held on September 6 from 6:30–10 PM.
Plastic Glamping
📅 September 4–13, 2025 📍 Hôtel d’Albret, 75004
Marianna Ladreyt presents an XXL camping tent installation in the courtyard of Hôtel d’Albret. Constructed from upcycled INTEX beach floats and reimagined furniture, this immersive environment transforms abandoned industrial materials into unexpected textures and forms. Her innovative approach combines sewing, weaving, and knotting techniques to create a playful habitat that feels at once familiar and transformed. Visitors are invited to enter the tent and experience this whimsical reinterpretation of outdoor living. A vernissage will be held on September 6 from 6–8 PM.
Graphic Design Takes Over Centre Pompidou
📅 September 9, 2025 📍 Centre Pompidou Forecourt, 75004
Graphic creation transforms the Pompidou’s forecourt through an innovative urban writing project. Association Écrire la Ville presents large-scale graphic installations celebrating posters as contemporary artistic mediums. Students from prestigious design schools reinvent public narratives through manual, typographic, and poetic techniques. The event features a 5:40 PM conference exploring how writing guides us through common spaces, followed by live poster creation workshops. Visitors can watch words and images take shape in real time, with final presentations at 7 PM showcasing how graphic design structures and tells urban stories.
NéoPaléo Exhibition
📅 September 4 – October 31, 2025 📍 Galerie des Ateliers de Paris, 75011
Curated by Studio BehaghelFoiny, this exhibition gathers fifteen contemporary designers who bridge past and future. The presentation explores how traditional craftsmanship merges with digital technology, creating objects that honor handmade spontaneity. Designers reinterpret ancient techniques through contemporary sensibilities. The exhibition is free to attend and includes on-site mediation to enhance the visitor experience. A vernissage will be held on September 6 at 6:30 PM.
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