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While the buzz around sustainability in design may sometimes overshadow its tangible impact, it continues to be a powerful force driving innovation and creativity. Case in point: “Cosmos and Matter“, an immersive exhibition in Paris that proves how sustainable practices and eco-friendly materials can seamlessly align with avant-garde design. Occupying an elegant Haussmannian apartment in the 7th arrondissement, the installation (running from 7 November 2024 to 16 February 2025) unites 22 designers, artisans, and artists who champion materials such as reclaimed wood, upcycled textiles, construction waste, and vegetable leathers, to demonstrate how ecological mindfulness can fuel both artistry and craftsmanship.
Curators Marie-Cassandre Bultheel and Hélène Aguilar conceived Cosmos and Matter less like a showroom and more as a blueprint for a new “art de vivre”. Unfolding across ten meticulously curated rooms, the exhibition invites visitors to journey through a realm where natural cycles meet human ingenuity, and ancestral wisdom intersects with contemporary aesthetics, offering us an opportunity to reconsider our relationship with the spaces we inhabit and the materials that shape our lives.