The best design exhibitions to see in Paris this week

This week, Paris is dominated by an array of art moments as Art Basel Paris and Design Miami Paris return for their third instalment after the 2023 debut in the city. Across the French capital’s historical venues, from hotels particuliers to landmark apartments, collectible design finds a place to show its most experimental side, with multidisciplinary cross-pollination opportunities that range from textile-like treatment of solid surfaces to music merging with design.

Here, we round up the best design exhibitions to see in Paris as Art Basel and Design Miami both land in the city.

This week, India Mahdavi stages three collaborative exhibitions: with AGO Projects, a display of Kauani’s Parenchyma cactus-shaped sculptural lights in her Project Room, ‘an intimate study of xerophytic plants endemic to the American continen’, and an exhibition of chairs by Serban Ionescu in her Tiny Room gallery space. Ionescu’s anthropomorphic chairs reflect his Balkan origins: drawing from ancient vernacular, ‘I treat wood like drawing or clay, improvised and direct, embracing all accidents,’ says the designer.

With culinary collective We Are Ona, she also presents Rose C’est La Vie, a flower-clad restaurant pop-up with Mexican chef Jesús Durón, whose name is a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, and whose interiors reference the Mahdavi-designed iconic APT club in New York.