10 Best Finds at Maison&Objet and Paris Design Week, September 2026
The heat wave had (largely) passed by the time tens of thousands of international buyers, designers, and journalists descended upon Maison&Objet and Paris Design Week this September. (Paris’ disdain for A/C, however, kept things a bit sticky nonetheless.) The fair, known to many as Maison et Objet and newly named Maison&Objet Pulse for its fall edition, ran September 10–14 at Paris Nord Villepinte, while Paris Design Week filled showrooms, galleries, and courtyards across the city through September 19. (For our picks from the winter show, see 11 of the Best Finds at Maison&Objet 2026.)
The Design Trends That Stood Out in Paris
Blurring the line between design and craft was a dominant theme—as it often is here—with unusual and appealing ceramics in many forms making a strong showing. (Even techie items had an air of the organic.) Colors, as always, ran the gamut, although variations on the rainbow and purples gained traction—in metal, glass, and wood. Here are 10 designers and pieces worth knowing.
Ceramics Take Center Stage
Clay showed up at an ambitious scale this year, from amphora-inspired vases to stools and sculptural stoneware.
Unda Vases by Onofrio Acone
I love a large-scale vase or jar, and this series has particularly appealing scale and proportions. The pieces interpret Roman amphorae and bottles in dense chromatic tones. Each is hand built from clay coils (colombino in Italian) and finished in a Mediterranean palette.
Amended (M) Stools by Studio Manon Stoeltie
There were many examples of large-scale ceramics during the show, and these had a genuinely striking presence. The artist explores discarded materials, in this case computer monitor packaging, to highlight the complexities of consumer culture.
Stoneware by Karlien van Rooyen, Rising Talent Awards South Africa
Van Rooyen has a background in neuroscience and is a free diver, so it’s logical that her pivot to ceramics yielded stoneware pieces inspired by human anatomy and the organic forms she sees underwater. The pieces are hand built in sections that are later joined. She was one of seven designers and studios honored in this year’s Rising Talent Awards, which spotlighted South Africa.
Color in Motion: Glass, Powder Coating, and Purple
Fervere by Jonathan Ausseresse
Monolithic glass pieces filled with color and potential. The name, Fervere, comes from the Latin for “to boil,” which is the root of the English word, fervent. The term captures the turbulence happening between the layers of glass and enamel: movement, the diffusion of color, a mixing of densities.
Hermochroma by SVZ Studio
Industrial powder coating, says designer Inés Sviezeny, is uniform, opaque, and mute. Here she explores its potential as a new visual language, layering multiple powders before firing them so that the pigments meet, diffuse, and blend in entirely new ways.
Décision Armchair by Franck Genser
Purple and near-purples had a strong presence at Paris Design Week this year. This armchair by Genser, inspired by the French Art Deco designer Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, takes aubergine, and a blue with aubergine undertones, and applies them to a pared-down form in stained ash.
Where Craft Meets Design
Festin Fantôme by Buro Mesnildot
Splendid tableware based on a historic service from the Louvre but given a makeover. The collection has the vibe of a surreal film set, playing with scale and embellishment to achieve something macabre yet oddly stylish.
Fringe Friends by Maori Kimura
Blurring the line between art and craft, this chair celebrates the beauty of fabric selvage. The project began with the “aim of discovering new value in the precious waste material produced by the last remaining name tag factory in the Netherlands.” (For another artist rethinking textiles, see Richard Saja on Coloring Outside the Lines.)
Tech With an Organic Touch
3D-Printed Lighting by LightMass
You see a lot of 3D-printed lighting these days, but rarely does it have the impact of these pieces, which are large but nearly weightless. (Each fixture is named for the weight of the thermoplastic it’s made from.)
Anatomy of Sound by Studio Matthijs Koerts
Remove the casing from a loudspeaker and a stripped-down, beautifully simple form emerges: a paper membrane, a copper voice coil, magnets, and a metal frame. The speakers come in varying sizes, each tuned to different frequencies.
More Design Coverage From TABLE
- 11 of the Best Finds at Maison&Objet 2026: our picks from the January edition of the fair.
- Browse all Artists and Makers and Home stories.
About the Author
Stephen Treffinger is a Contributing Editor at TABLE Magazine. He also covers interiors, design, travel, and technology for New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Domino, Financial Times, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Better Homes and Gardens, Interior Design, Elle Decor, Travel + Leisure, Vogue Living (Australia), Departures, and many others.
Featured Photo From Franck Genser
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