Art Paris is an inclusive art fair that is open to all mediums. In 2025 – a year that marks the centenary of the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts - it is launching the French Design Art Edition. This new feature focusing on design and the contemporary decorative arts, imagined in partnership with Le FRENCH DESIGN directors Jean-Paul Bath and Sandy Saad, will be located on the balconies on the north side of the Grand Palais nave. The exhibition space designed by architects Jakob+MacFarlane will host eighteen exhibitors (interior designers, designers, design companies and galleries specialising in design) with creations by designers and examples of contemporary interior design, both one-off pieces and limited series. To complete this ensemble, a 130m² group show will explore the fertile mutual inspirations between the worlds of art and design, as well as the relationship between contemporary creation and traditional artisanship and the objects created therewith.

French Design Art Edition Selection Committee:

• Reda Amalou, Founder and Partner of AW² Architecture and Reda Amalou Design, Chairman of AFEX
• Jean-Paul Bath, CEO, Le FRENCH DESIGN
• Julia Capp, Deputy Director General of RDAI Architecture and Design
• Romain Jouffre, President of Ateliers Jouffre
• Guillaume Piens, Fair Director, Art Paris
• Sandy Saad, Deputy General Manager, Le FRENCH DESIGN