today’s inspiration_PAD Paris_27th edition_Paris_France
Every spring, the biggest names in collectible furniture gather at the Jardin des Tuileries for PAD Paris.
Created back in 1998, PAD was the 1st created design fair in the world, and remains the leading event for international design collectors. Here the best international and french galleries of historical and contemporary design come together and each edition is an evolution bringing forward new dialogues between historical and contemporary design.
Among the more than 70 participating galleries, some perceived as the most conscientious dealers of this generation, some who have been shaking up the codes of the art market by representing established and emerging artists around abstraction, some engaged in a formal, functional and political reflection on the radical design of the 1980s and even some interested in material experimentation as a form of critical practice, using it to explore wider narratives about culture, materiality, identity and authenticity. All of them aim to inspire new aesthetic trends and celebrate historical and contemporary design.
Over the years, the PAD has asserted its unique personality and point of view on the Art of Living and Collecting, this 27th edition’s star-studded jury even awarded three prizes : the stand prize, the contemporary design prize, and the historical design prize.
Witnessing all this, I feel that these art galleries exceed by far their primary purpose and role, they not only showcase, inform, preserve, transmit, discuss design. They become a celebration of culture and to a certain extend a tribute to civilisations. Each in their unique, entomological, epic, dreamlike, hypnotic, initiatory, artistical and/or historical way.
Thank you for having me !
@galeriekreo representing Marco Campardo and its Jello Table
@jousse-entreprise representing Victoria Wilmotte and her powder-coated steel Mirror
@galleriarossellacolombari representing Afra&Tobia Scarpa and their Eight wall lamps
@meubleetlumieres representing Colette Gueden and her Grand lit
@galeriejeanfrancoiscazeau representing Picasso and his Grande tête de femme au chapeau orné
@massmoderndesign representing Carlo Hauner and its low Armchairs by Forma Brazil
@amelieduchalard representing established and emerging artists working in abstraction
@willyrizzo presenting its Love lamp
@alexandreguillemain representing Parvine Curie and her Composition géométrique
Merci @padesignart and @agencemelchior … PAD Paris is more vibrant than ever !
JLS 