Maison & Objet September 2007

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• Pyrolave brings Volvic lava stone up to speed with design
  Decorators and kitchen specialists are aware of the technical and aesthetic qualities of Volvic lava stone. For twenty years, Pyrolave has been producing kitchen counters made from enameled lava stone, and even decorative panels like the ones created for the Dubai airport. But the small...
  
  
• French Decor
  Savon de Marseille’s ambitions Household linens? Hervé Delorme is an expert on the matter: “I was raised surrounded by weaving looms.” And for good reason. He is the son of Yves Delorme, the founder of the famous household linen brand
  
  
• Decor Echoes
  The swimming pool market is becoming more democratic With 90,000 more pools last year, or a 7% growth, the private swimming pool market in France is thriving. “Manufacturers’ innovations have contributed to the democratization of swimming pool purchases,” states a study by the...
  
  
• La Fiancée du Mékong marries fashion and decoration
  Pascale Delafosse, creator of the brand La Fiancée du Mékong wants to “keep a cool head.” The tunics, available in twenty different brightly-colored flower prints, are as big a hit as the kimonos.
  
  
• Airdiem reinvents the art of the smoking lounge
  Eric Gormand and his wife Emmanuelle, co-founders of Airdiem, are revisiting the art of travel. During a trip to the United Arab Emirates, this military school graduate and former military helicopter pilot discovered “the elegant, succulent and convivial gesture of the hookah”. Alas!
  
  
• Maison Objet 2007
  Claude Montana creates a “Passion Victim” You can take a bite out of Claude Montana’s latest creation. The fashion designer has drawn his inspiration from the bottle of his “Parfum d’Elle” perfume, released in 1984, to create the Passion Victim cake, a sweet treat with clean layers...
  
  
• Casino gets in on design
  When people talk about the democratization of design, the word can now be taken literally. The Géant Casino chain of hypermarkets is creating a new brand, “Inspirations DESIGN”, with an exclusive collection of limited-edition contemporary objects that combine aesthetics and functionality
  
  
• Chateaushop.com wants to make the home more amusing and more stylish www.chateaushop.com
  Elizabeth Perraud cannot help herself from having ideas. A doctor at the head of a private research laboratory, she applies for patents every two years. The alumnus of the Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) has also just launched a new decoration website devoted to "stylish and casual...
  
  
• Maison Objet 2007
  A return to Arzu Firuz’s origins In Arzu Firuz’s family, French is the common language. A mother born in Panama, a Turkish father, schooling at the French Secondary school of Istanbul, a diploma from the Duperré school in Paris. For the textile and product designer, cultural mixing...
  
  
• World Decor: Decor Echoes. Maison Objet 2007
  The Galeries Lafayette are settling down in Dubaï It is in the Dubaï Mall shopping centre that the Galeries Lafayette will inaugurate in 2008, a three-level 16,000 m² store, dedicated to fashion and to the French art of living.
  
  
• Nespresso at Maison Objet 2007
  Nespresso encourages luxury design www.nespresso.com/design The second edition of the Nespresso international design competition invites the design students from the best international schools "to investigate the new forms of luxury".
  
  
• Maison Objet 2007
  Leather and Decor are dressing up the home. Collective des Tanneurs at Maison Objet 2007, in Paris
  
  
• Alnoor invents the objects of everyone’s desires
  Alnoor can’t live without his drawing pad.
  
  
• The Meubles Louis XXI reinterpret the classics
  Within the context of an advertisement, Xavier Homo and Béatrice Chipault, at the head of a public relations agency, repaint in white and in pink, a Napoleon III armchair that they further elaborate with embroidery.
  
  
• Maison Objet 2007
  Christofle sells off its historic site in Saint-Denis
  
  
• Le Craft
  Le Craft produces the espresso cup by David Lynch www.craft-limoges.org
  
  
• Kids by ER targets spoiled children
  Noticing that the world of children’s furniture did not provide them with satisfactory solutions, Edouard Rambaud, his son François and Gaëlle Chet, exports manager of the Edouard Rambaud brand, decided to tackle the problem themselves.
  
  
• Hilton McConnico on all fronts
  In his Bagnolet studio in the Parisian region, Hilton McConnico isn’t lying idle.
  
  
• ENO’s lesson in simplicity
  Within Hall 7 that houses now! design à vivre, a new production company caused quite a stir during the last January session. Buyers were lining up to obtain exclusivity contracts and the purchasing orders were being placed at top speed.
  
  
• The Taporo studio sublimates concrete
  Philippe Tissot never grows tired of praising the virtues of concrete.
  
  
• Home a Dress reinterprets men’s wardrobes
  For Marie Louis-Dreyfus, the world of home linens seems to be too feminine.
  
  
• Mirrors by BLZ
  One recognizes the graphic designer’s touch in the stylized aspect of the neo-baroque mirrors that are laser-chiselled, by Blaise Dovifat.
  
  
• Perrine Rousseau favours the natural
  A textile design graduate from the Arts Décoratifs school, Perrine Rousseau has always had a soft spot for weaving techniques.
  
  
• Design is polishing up Christofle’s silverware
  Spurred on by the artistic director Brigitte Fitoussi, the French silversmith brand of Christofle pursues its creative approach through design.
  
  
• Tralalart is painting on porcelain
  Marie Levêque acknowledges the fact of having allowed herself to be carried away by the events.
  
  
• The Do-Ma furniture store chain is expanding its network
  Furniture, a sector that is undergoing difficulties?
  
  
• Manga Rosa allows birds to fly
  There’s nothing surprising about a dancer and an actress being fascinated by both movement and balance.
  
  
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 Fairs of the sector

• Casa Idea 2007 Italy / Rome
• Casa Pasarela 2007 Spain / Madrid


• Export Home 2007 Portugal / Porto
• Feria Internacional Mueble Madrid 2004 Spain / Madrid


• Fidexpo Moscow 2007 Russia / Moscow
• FIMMA Maderalia 2007 Spain / Valencia


• Innowa 2006 Germany / Dortmund
• Interdecoraçao 2007 Portugal / Porto


• Maison & Objet 2006 France / Paris
• Ofitec 2008 Spain / Madrid


• Planete Meuble 2007 France / Paris
• Salon du Meuble de Paris 2007 France / Paris


• Technomebel 2007 Bulgaria / Sofia