Round Table
For the D’DAYS round table, chaired by Chantal Hamaide – director and editor-in-chief of the magazine Intramuros – several figures from the world of industry, design and cultural institutions are invited to debate the theme "And tomorrow". Several problems will be raised: the role of designers in the company faced with changes in markets and the recognition of their status, new technologies ...
Audi talents awards
From six years, Audi launches a cultural patronage programme, to support young creation.
This contest is open to all, and aims to reward young talents is 4 :
Design
Short films
The music in the image
Contemporary art
This contest is officialy open to all and we invite every students to submit their candidacy before april the 15th.
The prize-winner will be accompanied ...
Exploring the medium of wood
The Skills Academy
Call for applications: 1 May to 15 July 2013. The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès is launching its first Skills Academy in 2014, with designer Patrick Jouin as guest director. The first academy will explore the medium of wood. Applications are open to artisans, designers and engineers committed to transmitting core skills in a context of ground-breaking experiment and ...
Edito
René-Jacques Mayer, President of the Association D'DAYS
Designer’s Days is a wonderful enterprise, in all senses of the word, because it federates values, cultural and economic stakeholders, men and women for whom design is not a question.For each one, whether a member or partner of Designer’s Days, design is a profession, a discipline, an economic and creative added-value, a strategic ...
Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Fondation d'entreprise Hermès
Since its creation in 2008, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès has worked to promote new outlets and applications for skills, expertise and innovation. Projects supported by the Foundation fall into two categories: ‘expertise and creativity’, and ‘expertise and the transmission of artisan skills’. From the outset, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès ...
Members of the Association
The Designer's Days Association was founded in 2000 by a small group of professionals with a view to disseminating design and making it more accessible. Over the course of its 13 years, this cultural event has been completed and today brings together public (cultural institutions, training bodies, museums, etc.) and private stakeholders (editors, distributors, manufacturers, galleries, etc.) ...
L’Officiel Conciergerie
L'officiel Conciergerie is partner with D'DAYS 2013
The private and avant-gardist L’Officiel Conciergerie is the first and unique concierge service offer that combines the expertise of lifestyle journalists to the professionalism of a great concierge service. Thus, this “new generation” luxury concierge service opens its address book to D’DAYS 2013 privileged visitors, exhibitors and ...
And tomorrow…
“And tomorrow…”, two words and an ellipsis on which the participants of the D’DAYS circuit have been reflecting over the past few months. Choosing a theme for the year raises thousands of questions… How to formulate what is likely to be appropriate in nine months time? How, at the dawn of 2013, is it possible to imagine where companies and individuals will be once we have turned the ...
Call for projects
for young designersDesigner’s Days
Designer’s Days is a non-profit organisation (French law of 1901).
The Designer's Days Association was founded in 2000 by a small group of professionals with the aim of making contemporary creative work better known and promoting modern design among the general public.
For 12 years now, the Association has been offering a 5-day Parisian design circuit, ...
Identity (ies)
The theme for 2012
The theme of the Designer's Days circuit is a surprising choice. And yet to talk about Identity (ies) in the plural is to admit the complexity, the paradoxes and the richness of an individual, an object, or a brand.
Considered thus, with its “ies” in brackets, the theme of the Paris Design circuit in 2012 opens up some interesting perspectives. Over and above the images ...
Ambassade d’Italie
The seven obsessions of Italian Design by Silvana Annicchiarico
The magnificent rooms of the Residence of the Italian Embassy will host the exhibition The Seven Obsessions of Italian Design ", designed by the Triennial Design Museum of Milan. In Rococco style combined with the XVIIIth century spirit of the Hôtel de la RochefoucauldDoudeauville, visitors can travel through history and a ...
Appel à projets
by Imaginers & THIERRYKAUFFMANN
The members of the jury: Alain Lardet, President of the Designer's Days Association;
Jérôme Aumont, Editor of Maison Française; Audrey Bres, Director of Yookô.fr
The Designer's Days Association, in partnership with Maison Française and Yookô.fr, have launched, for the first time this year, a tender process for young designers and recently formed ...
ARTUCE
The adventure continues…
by Benjamin Graindorge
After their premiere last June at Designer's Days, Artuce, the new French specialist in lighting is continuing its path ... the dialogue which was established between the designers and their vision of a luminuous object began this process, which has produced a personal and individual collection of lights. A new range of lighting bearing the ...
AXURBAIN
The furnishing of public spaces, is all about responding to specific purposes and functions : regulation and co-existence of traffic, health, safety, etc. It is also responding to less obvious, but equally essential social needs. Usability is also important, the appropriation of public spaces by their users, and comfort are the tangible notion that the producer of street hardware must take into ...
Atelier Cahen et Gregori
9ch
by l’Atelier Cahen et Grégori
What impact can colour have on our environment and on ourselves, how does each one position themself in the colour spectrum? Through the use of several experimental devices, 9ch proposes to sweep through the colour spectrum, with each colour having a special vibration. This enables the discovery of an intimate resonance that these waves can sometimes ...
Under development
Catberro
Garouste et Bonetti. Martin Szekely : Imprints by Catberro
Although Martin Szekely has just exhibited at the Pompidou Centre, while Elizabeth garouste and Mattia Bonetti continue their circuit through France and abroad, it seems sensible to us to show their creations, from the mid-80s to the end of the 90s.
Linking furniture and objects from this prolific period will allow visitors to this ...
Cocotte Power
«My name is Power. Cocotte Power. »
by Cocotte Power
From blogging to design by way of fashion, the Cocottes are fully engaged. Ariane and Stéphanie, the founders of Cocotte Power, channel their positive energy into new challenges. Fed by the synergy of encounters, their creative talent brings a new angle and a plus to products which interest them.
The Cocotte Power label is an ...
Confidence & light
Confidence by CONFIDENCE AND LIGHT
This is the first participation at Designer's Days 2012 for Confidence and Light and will provide the Paris launch for their Confidence range. They are a French manufacturer of architectural lighting products (for commercial, hotel and restaurant use). The 2012 collection has been created by Arik Levy (Miss Light, Magnet), Octave & guss (Fred), Jean-Yves ...
Copperina Box C/o Musée des arts et Métiers
Copper in a Box C/o Musée des Arts et Métiers
by Riccardo Giovanetti
A material for industry as well as art : it is from this dual identity that copper derives its originality. The first metal worked by man, the metal known as "the red metal", marked the history of technical progress, from electricity to communications, passing by construction. In recent years, it has taken its place on ...
École Bleue
Mix
Mix
Let us avoid related objects
Advocating a mixed design
between
East and West
the sophisticated and the primitive
wood and iron
soft and hard
reality and fiction
tradition and innovation
DÉFI INNOVER ENSEMBLE
The Défi Innover Ensemble is a workshop teaching project designed and implemented by the Compagnons du Devoir with the support of the JM Weston Foundation. It combines businesses and the savoirfaire in the sector of flexible materials (shoe making, leather goods, saddlery and upholstery), design and management in the development of global products – from market analysis to distribution ...
École Boulle
Portraits
by DSAA Product design and interior design
The thirty-two graduates of interior design and design products at École Boulle are exhibiting. For this second edition, we will focus once more on highlighting our evolution and the culmination of a year's work. Portraits will reveal the processes required to
develop thirty-two projects. From a first sketch to a prototype, from project ...
École Duperré & Ofr
Rubies
by the DSAA team
In partnership with Ratti*, students taking the higher diploma of applied art have undertaken a variety of forecasting research, questioning the use of silk as a concept and a material : the identities of the material, but also the emotional identities and social and cultural representations. Indeed, silk reveals unexpected qualities. Raw and luscious, it has almost ...
École Parsons à Paris
(a division of paris college of art )
1 June 2012 | Design Research Symposium
"Identities and competences of designers with regard to societal change : change the scale of the design process", by Brigitte Borja de Mozota, Bernard Darras.
8h30-13h00 | Round table :
Design professionals (Fendi-Nekoé) question economists and economic researchers on the values of their businesses, in the ...
Eliumstudio
Design à 360°
by Eliumstudio
Renowned for the elegance of its French industrial design and the many objects that they have designed over the past 10 years for a wide variety of international sponsors, Eliumstudio present a panorama of their work for the Designer's Days event. They will be exhibiting at the Rotonde de La Villette, designed by Ledoux, with a circular unit displaying their ...
EnsaD
École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
"For tomorrow"
Hommage to Roger Tallon
Treasure Hunts and Metamorphosis
Sounds of Glass
City Sets
In 2012, EnsAD is joining forces with Designer's Days.
Its students, with its teaching staff propose five creative encounters.
"For tomorrow” Exhibition from 31 May to 4 June at the Théâtre au Fil de l’Eau.
| 20, rue Delizy - ...
EnsaD C/o Espace modem
École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Treasure hunts and metamorphoses
« Only traces make you dream » René Char.
Involved in the art of collecting, first-year design students at EnsAD, (l’Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) are invited to Bilum’s workshops. They have gathered together a selection of materials there for reuse : advertising banners, paper or ...
Ensci
« FabLab : Matières XXL »
The meeting of craftsmen’s savoir-faire and digital design conception
Ensci-Les Ateliers presents the exhibition "FabLab:Materials XXL", demonstrating its role as a promoter in the domain of digital design, services, the immaterial, and thus illustrating the various identities of design. This exhibition is an opportunity to expand the perception of an ever ...
Eurosic & Ecole Camondo
Code 2012
Eurosic announces a partnership with the Ecole Camondo entitled Code 2012 (Eurosic Office Design Concept), sponsored by Patrick Jouin. Engaged in the development of ecological offices, Eurosic places the comfort and wellbeing of its users at the heart of its projects by providing stressfree workspaces. Eurosic anticipates the office of the future and encourages the search for a new ...
Esadse & Weiss
Cité du design & Ecole superieure d’art and design de St Etienne, in partnership with Paul Bocuse and Weiss
L’école supérieure d’art et design de Saint-Etienne is participating in Designer's Days for the first time.
Over and above an interest to set out a stall as a higher education establishment within this prestigious design event, it is for us a question of sharing a special ...
Fondation Cartier
True histories by Alessandro Mendini
Show and Tell
May 15 › Sept. 30, 2012
From 15 May to 30 September 2012, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain will present a selection works from around the world, whose creators are, for the most part, from a self-taught culture or from endangered and minority cultural communities. In a scenography by Alessandro Mendini, the exhibition ...
Gallery S.Bensimon
Identity - History by Tino Seubert
Our identities are the sum of many influences : status, group affiliation, the period and society. We are the fruit of a civilisation marked by its non-linear evolution where "accidents" of history, positive or negative, have acted significantly for every individual. Are we aware of this?
Through this collection "Forming History", Tino Seubert works on the ...
Gambs
Your papers!!!
by Céline Wright
In an island of nature on a grand Parisian boulevard, hundreds of strips of Japanese paper float under "Sakura" cherry blossom trees and and wait for everyone’s life testimonies. In the manner of suspended prayers in Japanese temples, each one tells its own story : who he is, where he comes from, his hopes, his convictions for today’s and tomorrow’s ...
GT Design
HomeLand
by Deanna Comellini
For Deanna Comellini - Italian designer and founder of gT DESIgN – exploring places of identity at the heart of space open to globalisation signifies the evolution in a field where consciousness guides the interaction with the environment, objects (manufactured goods), and the individual and collective memory. To take a step, touch, watch, approach or move ...
Humanitarian Design Bureau
The third way
by Humanitarian Design Bureau
Humanitarian Design Bureau is the first design agency to be dedicated to humanitarianism. Its purpose is the adaptation and creation of specific solutions in this sector which take into account human beings and their beliefs, traditions and their environment on one hand, and the optimisation of performance and reduction of the costs of ...
Ifm
Round table
A round table will take place at the IFM on Saturday 2 June 2 2012, from 10h30-12h30, on the following Theme : «Production and globalisation: has design become global?».
Institut Finlandais
1-2-3-Helsinki ! Design en Seine
by Esa Vesmanem
Do you know today’s Finnish design? How to make daily life more beautiful? Can design be invited into our diet to spice up our culinary culture? Can design be allowed to provide a better environment for all?
The 1-2-3-Helsinki ! Design en Seine, provides some answers to these questions by illustrating contemporary Finnish design in all its ...
InterfaceFlor
Creative Nesting
"Creative Nesting" concerns the consideration that InterfaceFlor has given to the integration of creative flooring as part of the refurbishment in our continually evolving living spaces. For Designer's Days, InterfaceFLOR creates harmony between collective well-being and individual development and expresses the identity of a space through its modular carpet tiles.
Jean Nouvel Design
Essences
"Essences" is a range of solid wood furniture designed by Jean Nouvel, which will be pre-launched at Designer's Days. This range was created from the deep attachment of the architect to the town of Sarlat where he grew up, his quest for authentic production, contemporary and localised, so that the area’s uniqueness and history could be maintained while, at the same time, ...
La boutique du Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou-Paris shop has 200m2 of space in which to present items from its museum and a selection of creations by Pierre Charpin. The Centre Pompidou Label is granted by the museum to a selection of objects and furniture which are have transcended fashion over the course of time. They are recognisable in stores by a special branding and accompanied by a certificate, featuring the ...
Le lieu du Design
“Under your feet, there’s design” Public places and designers, by 5.5 Designers
Thanks to emblematic and exemplary projects in France and abroad, "Under your feet, there’s design" reflects the strategic role of designers in public spaces of the future. What role do they play in the the design process and the actual implementation of public places? What is their contribution to ...
Legrand
Art revisited
by Inga Sempé
The design and the identity of products of the Legrand group have been completely controlled for the past ten years by a strong internal design ethic. Its points of view have been influenced by a regular confrontation with different cultural elements in many countries and cultures in which we are present. In the context of Designer's Days, we have sought to give ...
Les ateliers de Paris
Masks
by the Résidents des Ateliers de Paris
The identity of the Ateliers de Paris will be many fold. The 19 resident artists for this 2012 promotion will base their attention on the mask, a metaphor of identity which will become a unifying element on this occasion. Invited guests will be encouraged to adopt a mask themselves and therefore understand the universe and approach of each of ...
Les agents associés
Biennale des créateurs d’images
Images & Maison®
édition 2012
by Sarah Langinieux | Pakenko
The Agents Associés Association has gathered together photographers’ agents, illustrators and multimedia artists since 2004. They represent more than 800 well known professionals. The agents work daily with communications’ agencies, the media and a broad diversity of advertisers ...
Les Arts Décoratifs
A touch of earth on the skin Contemporary ceramic jewellery
by Daniel Gnaedig & Monika Brugger
Continuing its introductory programme in the domain of contemporary ceramics, after « Petits bouleversements au centre de la table " in 2008 and " Circuit céramique “ in 2010, Les Arts Décoratifs, in partnership with the Bernardaud business foundation, have wished to explore the ...
Made in Design C/o Moving Room
Nomadic identities…
Scattered throughout Paris, but as close as possible for visitors to Designer's Days, accessible and open to the world of design, the caravans of Moving Rooms, created by Made in Design, evoque with some humour and a slightly “out of sync” manner, the DNA of the site: the democratisation of design. Thanks to the collaboration of the designers invited by Made in ...
Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs
The books of Ettore Sottsass
To mark the publication of the book by giorgio Maffei and Bruno Tonini by Corraini Editions, I libri di Ettore Sottsass, the Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs present a selection of books and magazines that Ettore Sottsass has written, illustrated or edited over the course of sixty years, between1947 and 2006. The exhibition, co-ordinated by giorgio Maffei and ...
Maison du Danemark
Peter Callesen
"Paper and the way that it is cut are the means of expression for the contemporary Danish artist, Peter Callesen. Thanks to his fabulous sculptures, he opens up the possibilities of the surface of a sheet of paper to a three dimension world and thereby recounts its stories - without words. It becomes a part of existence – created from artistry with paper”.
Photography © ...
Maison Revel
PeriFabrique
by Pôle Pantin Métiers d’art
A resource centre, the Maison Revel adds its weight to the creatives of the Pôle Pantin to add value to the perception of the art professions. For the first extra mural edition of Designer's Days, the Maison Revel invites designers and artisans from the collective to illustrate their common and complementary identities for this creative ...