Mystery Monday

Keeping an eye on Paris Design Week.

October newsletter: 

A peek into some of Montmartre's hidden interiors

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Sunday spark

 It's Paris Design Week / Maison&Object 2026

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Paris is pulsing with creativity today as Maison&Objet Pulse* fills the halls at Villepinte and Paris Design Week spills across the city’s most inspiring neighborhoods - from Marais galleries and Bastille installations to Saint-Germain showrooms and the Grand Palais’s floral spectacle. It features what’s new and next in design, emerging talents and young brands, bold, sensitive, and sustainable creativity, a dynamic, forward-looking energy focusing on seven immersive sectors: Decor & Design, Cook & Share, Fine Craft, Fashion & Accessories, Gift & Play, Fragrance & Ambiance, Wellness & Beauty.

On this sunny September Sunday, the capital feels like one big open studio, where emerging talents, craft traditions, and bold new interiors invite wandering, discovery, and feeling the energy of design in motion.  - BPJ

 Official Website 

 

* Maison&Objet Pulse is the official name of the September edition of the famous Maison&Objet trade fair in Paris that takes place 10 - 14 September 2026 at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre and is themed, “Pulse in Motion” 

 

Sitting pretty

 

 

Innovative interiors, cutting edge furniture, decorative arts.... Meet the designers.

 

Paris Is My Living Room Dept.

 

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Paris Design Week 2026 

Ends Monday January 19, 2026 

 

IN THE CITY / MAISON&OBJET 

Maison&Objet Monday

Last chance to catch the creativity and beauty that is Paris Design Week.

 Full program 2025:

MAISON&OBJET

 

Ends Monday January 20

  

 

Floral Friday

 

 

A bouquet explodes with spring flowers inside a shop in the Latin Quarter.

 

Paris Design Week

 

Once again cutting edge international designers have descended on Paris for an exciting week of graphic design, furniture, decorative arts, innovative interiors.

 Paris Is My Living Room Dept.

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Paris Design Week 2023

Ends Monday January 23  

Wednesday whimsy

 

Love this small deco shop on a Montmartre side street.

Creative design, custom interior paints, papier peints, more. By Penelope.

Farrow & Ball

7 rue Francoeur 75018

 

Throwback Thursday

Well, not all that far back.

(photo from April 2019 post)

 Le Brébant

Apéro evenings

  Small private at-home gatherings have become the default setting for many a Paris apéritif.

 

Above: apéro set out on upstairs deck; on ground floor, living room of beautiful home opens onto a spacious garden

Hamlet

 

 

Easy-to-miss sign on Avenue Junot, "Hameau des artistes" - artists' hamlet.

 

Below: from a balcony overlooking a private courtyard

 

La petite

Photograph in a children's fabric shop in the Marais district.

Le Brébant

Once a mecca for intellectuals, artists and writers, this striking café-restaurant has been a fixture on the Grands Boulevards since 1865.

Below: Petrossian tarama with lemon wedge, poilâne toast and a glass of chardonnay

Le Brébant

32 Boulevard Poissonnière 75009


April newsletter
Nouveautés

Horse sense

A life-sized sculpture of a horse as a lamp base.

Over head

An atrium ceiling of dizzying design.

Painter's view

An artist's studio drenched in natural light on a gray day.

In upcoming April newsletter:  
an atelier d'artiste

Paris Design Week

Evenings of galas and receptions as lamp shades decorate streets.

Ends tomorrow

Elegant Italian

Upscale Italian and elegant decor (with help from Philippe Starck) graces one of the oldest covered passages in Europe.

Caffè Stern

47 Passage des Panoramas

11 Boulevard Montmartre 75002 

High-end antiques

Rare and distinctive antiques are a hallmark of the rue des Saints-Pères.

Interior refresh

Creative furnishings fill the upstairs loft at this Marais concept store.

MERCI

111 Boulevard Beaumarchais 75003

Tableware

Exquisite contemporary tableware set off by a minimalist interior in a Left Bank gallery-shop.

Muriel Grateau

37 rue de Beaune 75007