Paris, the capital of elegance and literature, opens its doors wide to the world during Paris Design Week 2025. As with Fashion Week, the city becomes a crossroads, a meeting point for creators, designers, artisans, and institutions from all corners of the globe. Here, future stars are discovered, and the unexpected and surprising are experienced. A grand cosmopolitan melting pot, where creative energy knows no bounds or hierarchies.
Portugal tells its story in the Marais
In the heart of the Marais district, the exhibition Made in Portugal Naturally The exhibition takes over the Galerie Joseph, surrounded by the ancient stones of 16 rue des Minimes. The scenography by Nini Andrade Silva, an internationally renowned interior designer, transforms it into a living, vibrant, sensory organism, where light, matter and memory converge.
This Portuguese journey celebrates the ingenuity of national design—furniture, ceramics, textiles, lighting—working to reconcile tradition, innovation, sustainability, and elegance. More than fifty designers and brands present original pieces, testifying to the cultural richness and vitality of Lusophone design.
China is flourishing in the Marais
A few steps away, China Week (Blooming) explores Chinese creativity in its multiple expressions, in collaboration with Maison & Objet, the China Design Center in Paris and Beijing Design Week, with the support of the Embassy and the Chinese Cultural Center.
Under the theme of BloomingA scenographic journey unfolds through exhibitions, forums, and collaborations, revisiting traditional Chinese arts with a modern twist. The event brings together the New Talents China — promising young designers in a spatial arrangement designed to create a dialogue between East and West.
Amidst this flurry of activity, the exhibition “Wei Way, Oui Designs!”The exhibition, presented at the Galerie Joseph – rue Froissart, particularly highlights the work of contemporary Chinese designers. More than forty artists and studios showcase their creativity around the dialogue between East and West. Inspired by the double meaning of "Wei" in Chinese and "Oui" in French, the exhibition explores the role of design as a universal language, poised between heritage and innovation. Sculptures, installations, furniture, lacquerware, and jewelry reflect this creative energy, where age-old tradition and cutting-edge technologies intertwine. A true showcase of Chinese artistic vitality, Wei Way, Oui Designs! establishes itself as one of the unmissable events of Paris Designweek 2025.
Stopover in Guatemala: Living Crafts
Further along in the Marais, on Rue de Turenne, Guatemala is the special guest this year. The exhibition “Guatemala, Created with her hands” celebrates artisanal skills recontextualized in a contemporary language: embroidery, ceramics, wood and stone sculpture, signed by Guatemalan designers rooted in a strong culture.
This exhibition, rich in lessons, illustrates the alchemy between vernacular traditions and modern vision, a living dialogue between distant lands and artistic capital.
A global map of design
These international delegations, based in Paris, create a sensitive map of global design. They make the capital a powerful living observatory, where every street, every shop window in the Marais, every heritage institution becomes a laboratory in motion.
The fast-paced and dynamic Galerie Joseph supports these presences by multiplying exhibitions, transforming its heritage spaces into contemporary showcases for design from around the world.
A breath turned towards the future
Like an open and curious city, Paris Designweek doesn't just showcase: it invites you to travel, to encounter, to reinvent. Whether through the sensuality of Portuguese design, the creative flowering of China, or the ancestral roots of Guatemala, the event demonstrates that design is increasingly a universal language—a blend of cultures, materials, and memories.
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