As every year, Maison & Objet, French salon dedicated to design, is a tribute to the most high-level projects, offering food for thought and an interesting insight on the paths that designers and professionals have chosen to follow. Young people presented their creations, as usual, alongside the biggest names, which together with the iconic collections that distinguish them, often bring to Maison & Objet special creativity issues. Such as what Gufram did, taking to Paris the famous Cactus, object of worship for fans of the company, but dressed in new colors: red, white and blue, in homage to the flag of the country that hosted it. Even more color for Missoni Home, whose chromatic virtuosity have pervaded every aspect of the house, from carpets to beds, to all kinds of fabrics, with rich prints that combine the traditional dimension typical of the brand to a more contemporary one. Seletti has renewed the explosive collaboration with Toilet Paper, which tells an ironic and irreverent approach to design, and life in general. Tighter instead was Normann Copenhagen, which remains faithful to an essential, vaguely nostalgic design but just as mindful of a period devoted to the substance of things rather than to form. The technology is of course fundamental ally of designers abreast with the times, and 3D printing has brought interesting news; now is certainly not a novelty, but .exnovo, pioneer in using this technique for the construction of lighting and furnishing objects, presented a new collection of table lamps, Maggiolina, designed by Alessandro Zambelli, reflecting on the Kafkaesque Metamorphosis from a beetle to a luminous furnishing item. Almost an animated object, which would be perfect in a playful, but exquisitely refined environment, like the one created by Petite Friture, characterized by lightness and delicacy of the colors.A more than wide point of view, that despite the difficult moment lived by our French cousins manages to give a positive look and especially an incentive to free creativity.
