From March 6–9, 2026, during Paris Fashion Week, MATTER and SHAPE offers a more expansive idea of style, one that moves from the body to the room, from the garment to the object. Set in the Jardin des Tuileries, the Paris salon has quickly become one of the most intelligent stages for collectible design, architecture, decorative arts, and fashion to meet in one sharply curated world.
From March 6–9, 2026, during Paris Fashion Week, MATTER and SHAPE offers a more expansive idea of style, one that moves from the body to the room, from the garment to the object. Set in the Jardin des Tuileries, the Paris salon has quickly become one of the most intelligent stages for collectible design, architecture, decorative arts, and fashion to meet in one sharply curated world.
March 9, 2026
Paris knows how to stage desire. During Fashion Week, the city becomes a charged circuit of images, appointments, and ideas, with every address trying to define what feels current, collectible, and culturally urgent. MATTER and SHAPE enters that atmosphere with unusual clarity. By bringing fashion, design, and interiors into one shared language, it feels entirely of the moment and deserves its place among the most compelling art and design events in Paris in 2026.
Timed to Fashion Week and based in Paris, MATTER and SHAPE is a high-concept salon spanning collectible design, architecture, and fashion. Its strength lies in its salon identity: a format centered on dialogue, curation, and aesthetic exchange rather than the speed of a conventional trade fair. The result feels closer to an exhibition than a marketplace, even while operating commercially.
Created by Matthieu Pinet and Dan Thawley, the event reflects a sharp intersection of luxury, fashion, and culture. Pinet brings experience in high-end events, while Thawley, former editor-in-chief of A Magazine Curated By, contributes an editorial sensibility shaped by the global fashion world. Backed by WSN, the vision gains the infrastructure to scale without losing its sense of authorship.
Its setting in a temporary pavilion in the Jardin des Tuileries, between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, gives the salon immediate grandeur and visibility. For 2026, scenography is led by JA Projects under the theme of Scale, inspired by Rem Koolhaas’s S, M, L, XL. The idea suits MATTER and SHAPE perfectly, where scale becomes a way of thinking about intimacy and monumentality, object and environment.
That breadth continues in the exhibitor list. Rick Owens, Jil Sander, Saridis of Athens, Marimekko, Byredo, Georg Jensen, Mutina, and Lindsey Adelman appear alongside names such as Verre d’Onge, Abid Javed, and Faina. The result feels edited rather than crowded: A vivid snapshot of how cultural taste is being shaped now.
Japanese designer Daisuke Yamamoto presented Flow Painting, part of his ongoing Flow series exploring a more fluid lifecycle for materials. Using salvaged lightweight steel from demolition sites, he reconstructs discarded elements into raw, expressive furniture through a “scrap and build” process. The collection, themed Blossom, reflects his continued fascination with restoration, material memory, and the quiet beauty of reuse. French-American artist and designer Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert unveiled Marie Antoinette, a striking chandelier made entirely of glass. Referencing the queen’s pearls, the piece reimagines a symbol of nobility through a freer, more poetic lens by lowering it close to the ground. Created through his signature freehand glassblowing practice, the work explores matter, space, and the cultural stories objects carry.
SolidNature teamed up with Dutch artist and designer Marte Mei on a sustainable collection that transforms reclaimed natural stone into contemporary design pieces. Using scanned and reworked broken fragments, the collaboration includes a bench, coffee table, and lamp, all balancing natural softness with vivid visual energy. The result is a refined study in waste reduction, material reinvention, and sculptural calm. Milan-based studio NM3 presented a series of coffee tables, sofas, and screens shaped by its industrial design language. Founders Francesco Zorzi, Nicolò Ornaghi, and Delfino Sisto Legnani are known for combining steel, aluminum, marble, and glass with modernist rigor and functional clarity. Their work turns geometric precision and minimalist discipline into a distinct, quietly powerful elegance. Willo Perron’s first collaboration with Swedish design house NO GA introduced a modular furniture collection designed for more flexible, fluid interiors. Featuring tables and mirrors with ultra-glossy fiberglass finishes, the retro-futuristic pieces connect Perron’s image-driven aesthetic with NO GA’s long design heritage. Available in five colors, the collection brings a polished, playful vision of contemporary living.
Even hospitality becomes part of the salon’s authorship. The WE ARE ONA culinary pop-up turns dining into an extension of the exhibition experience, proving that MATTER and SHAPE understands design as something lived, not merely viewed.
That is what makes the event so persuasive. MATTER and SHAPE reflects a contemporary luxury imagination in which fashion continues past the body and into the room, the object, the ritual, and the architecture of everyday life. In that sense, it stands as one of the best art exhibitions Paris 2026 offers, not because it imitates the museum model, but because it expands what an exhibition can be.
