Maison & Objet 2024, the show that reconciles technology and nature

The first trend that stands out for this new year under the sign of the “Future”, are all the “archetype” objects themselves of a fantasized future. For this archetype collection, we then dive back into the iconographic Space Age universe of the 60s with the tam-tam stool created in 1968 by Henri Massonnet, the tulip foot of the velvet armchair inspired by the famous Tulip chair by Eero Saarinen and Florence Knoll or the Danish modernism of the chrome P376 suspension designed by Jørgen Kastholm and Preben Juhl Fabricius .

Science was also omnipresent, and this is because it has influenced the star designer's creation since his beginnings. Before presenting his new project for Maison&Objet, Mathieu Lehanneur won the innovation prize in 2008 for Andrea, a project based on the natural capacities of plants to filter the air and capture toxic particles from our interiors.

In 2024, we discover with “Outonomy”, the designer’s latest, his house of the future where the “superpowers” ​​of nature are completely integrated into our ecosystem, our habitat, thanks to technology. You too, immerse your interior in this biotech universe with the Home Lab collection selected by Fleux.

In 2024, your interior is optimized by nature, but not only! Technology is also coming to your home, and for that, we are closely following the trend seen at the Future on Stage award ceremony, a talent revealer. Between omnipresent colors and ecological design, the leaders of tomorrow's design are giving us a glimpse of a new golden age, like this Nouage-s plant seat from the KOMUT studio.

3D printing has inspired many of this year's exhibitors to offer you the furniture of the future. A manufacturing process that today crystallizes the Tech Eden vision of the show, since it invites us to enjoy and above all take up the challenges of the Garden of Eden, our planet, thanks to technology. If molded plastic shook up mass production in 1970, 3D printing seems to be making a new revolution in the field.

So, the new guard of designers today prefers intelligent, on-demand, and sustainable production from waste. This is indeed the proposal of designers Jacqueline Kessidis & Lucas Lind with the Crème Atelier Soft Serve lamp , produced from food packaging waste and corn starch. A bright and vitamin-rich idea that makes no concessions on aesthetics.