Every September, Paris becomes a temporary landscape for design.

Across galleries, interiors, institutions and independent spaces, objects leave their usual context and enter into dialogue with architecture, light, materials and bodies. For a few days, the city becomes less a backdrop than a field of encounters between the permanent and the ephemeral, the domestic and the monumental, the designed and the lived.

Paris Design Week has gradually grown beyond the presentation of new collections. Its most interesting moments often happen in the spaces between them: a material catching the light, an object finding its place within a room, a fragment of architecture becoming part of the composition. The exhibition becomes as much about atmosphere as it is about the objects themselves.

Looking back at previous editions, this observation follows those quieter elements. Lines, surfaces, textures, structures and gestures become the subject. Rather than documenting design as a catalogue of pieces, the photographs consider how design occupies space and how space, in return, transforms what we see.

These images were made during previous editions of Paris Design Week, photographed on film.

As the 2026 edition approaches, Paris will once again become a temporary laboratory for contemporary design, bringing together established houses, emerging studios, galleries, designers and creative practices across the city.

This is an observation of what remains between the objects: the space, the light, the material and the atmosphere surrounding them.

Next Edition, PDW 2026
September 10–19, 2026