Paris Design Week 2025: “Matière(s) Première(s)”, an exhibition by Junot
For the 3rd consecutive year, two of our iconic agencies are transforming into pop-up galleries and hosting “Matière(s) Première(s)”, a unique exhibition by Junot in collaboration with Paris Design Week.
A specialist in exceptional properties, the group supports the worlds of craftsmanship, design, and interior architecture, which enhance the living spaces entrusted to it. This year, the selected designers explore materials in all their forms: paper, metal, wood, stone, leather, and wool. Each work is crafted to reveal expertise, a vision, and an emotion. An invitation to imagine a unique interior... Because you always need a little art in your home.
In our agency dedicated to exceptional properties, matter becomes language
The Left Bank, a historic center of art, where many artistic movements were born, continues to influence the contemporary scene. In our agency Junot Fine Properties | Knight Frank, the exhibition brings together several contemporary signatures: sculpted and luminous papers by Anne Féat-Gaiss, delicate embroidery on wool by Hugo Falaise, minimalist coffee table by Martin Méry, solid wood furniture by Cédric Breisacher, poetic branches by Maxime Bellaunay and woven leather vases by Emma Batsheva.
Opening on Thursday, September 4, 2025.
Starting at 6:30 p.m.
Junot Fine Properties I Knight Frank Agency
11, rue de Tournon, 75006 Paris
In the heart of the creative Marais, the Junot agency will open its doors to talented designers
As the nerve center of art, between museums and galleries, the Marais is today a mecca of Parisian design. The Junot Marais agency hosts sensitive and organic works: paintings by Anne Féat-Gaiss, metal objects by Greek designer Théo Galliakis, delicate stone sculptures by Kristina Chrastilova, panels made of recycled wool and leather by Nolwenn le Scao, as well as solid wood objects and furniture by Ruthy Haddad.
Opening on Thursday, September 11, 2025.
Starting at 6:30 p.m.
Agence Junot Marais
5 rue de Bretagne, 75003 Paris
Ruthy Haddad
Architect, cabinetmaker, and wood turner, Ruthy Haddad designs and creates spaces, furniture, and objects in solid wood with a sober, minimal, and timeless aesthetic.
Inspired by Japan and the constructive intelligence of frames, Ruthy believes that a form or structure works if it speaks to our reason and intelligence. Through a calm elegance, her pieces challenge and question. The assemblages respond to a reasoned orchestration of forces. "They are beautiful because we intuitively know they have a reason for being as they are, without superfluity. They carry within them a strength, an aesthetic and a playful dimension." This apparent simplicity is the result of a resolved complexity.
Kristina Chrastilova
Of Czech origin, Kristina studied interior design at the Camondo School. Alongside her work with Tristan Auer and Sandra Benhamou, she learned stone carving at Paola Palmero's studio.
Kristina explores the link between concept and material, seeking to bring design and manufacturing closer together. She chose stone carving, drawing on ancestral know-how, as a tribute to the patience and time necessary for creation. Her practice integrates material recovery and experimentation, transforming natural stones into sculptural objects, at the crossroads of design, art, and craftsmanship. She draws inspiration from Isamu Noguchi, for whom art should nourish everyday objects.
Nolwenn the Scao
Nolwenn Le Scao has a three-dimensional approach to textiles, which she sees as a structural, functional, and emotionally emotive material.
The designer explores the boundaries between traditional textiles and sculpture through hybridizations of materials and various finishes. This exploratory work with materials allows her to break free from artisanal practices to design immersive textiles on a monumental scale. It then defines and conceptualizes the different manufacturing processes of a textile, from sampling to the final prototype, in a sustainable approach and a strong aesthetic.
Theo Galliakis
Théo Galliakis is an architect and artist. His work focuses on spirituality, the transformation of materials, and simplicity. He earned a Master's degree in Architecture from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Master's degree in Geodesign from the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Dividing his time between Greece and France, Théo has developed a practice that spans a wide range of scales and typologies. Influenced by Inspired by his Greek heritage and traditions, his work explores the delicate balance between proportion, light and matter.
Martin Méry
At the crossroads of artistic and family influences, Martin Méry, like an alchemist of beauty, draws his inspiration from his childhood. Coming from a family where a passion for art, decoration, and nature is passed down from generation to generation, Martin Méry inherited an exquisite taste for beauty and originality.
From the world of events to the creation of his own company at the age of 24, Martin Méry followed his creative instinct to shape his destiny. From now on, DADA DESIGN transcends the boundaries of ephemeral design by giving a second life to its creations through the production of furniture. True pieces of art, combining aesthetics and functionality, take shape thanks to the know-how of the most qualified artisans.
Anne Feat-Gaiss
Anne Féat-Gaiss is a visual artist who graduated from the École du Louvre and ENSCI. Her practice combines paper sculpture and materials such as copper leaf, gold leaf, and thread, giving rise to sensitive works that interact with space.
Inspired by mythology, science, and ethnography, she explores the link between humans and the universe, between the visible and the invisible. Her creations, between fragility and strength, celebrate the metamorphoses of nature in a poetic and organic movement, and invite us to the contemplation of life in all its richness.
Emma Batsheva
Emma Batsheva is an artist-designer. Trained at the Design Academy Eindhoven, she has developed a practice at the intersection of object, space, and concept. Her work explores sustainable and modular production systems, forging links between materials, culture, and innovation.
Navigating between craftsmanship and technology, she imagines sensitive and functional forms, designed to minimize waste and maximize potential. Today, she runs her studio, combining artistic direction, personal research, and collaborations with Parisian artisans and brands.
Cedric Breisacher
Cédric Breisacher develops narrative design rooted in matter. His practice questions the use of our resources and recreates a sensitive link between the object, the place, and the living.
By including his own body in the object's manufacturing process, he creates a link between the human being and the material, where the tool becomes a mediator of the relationship between two beings. After a transition to At ENSCI-les Ateliers, he developed a research methodology on the reuse of waste in the creation of new materials and made his workshop a circular production unit. Located in the Jardin des Métiers d’Art et du Design in Sèvres, he explores the notions of locality and circularity, where he uses his shavings as a (re)source of materiality allowing the repositioning of the object in a locality and a historicity.
Hugo Cliff
Hugo Falaise, a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes, is a designer and embroidery artist. He combines textile craftsmanship and object design to create pieces that reinvent our relationship with materials.
Through ribbon, he sculpts textiles and questions the place of ornament in contemporary design. His interest in decor leads him to work on furniture and exceptional wall panels, incorporating textiles into architecture. His work has been presented at the Design Week Factory trade shows in Paris, Homo Faber in Venice, Art & Design in New York and PAD in Paris, the latter two within the collections of the Galerie Anne Jacquemin Sablon and was selected for the regional competition of the Ateliers d'Art de France 2025.
Maxim Bellaunay
Sculptor and cabinetmaker Maxime Bellaunay crafts pieces inspired by the landscapes he traverses.
Each creation is born from a sensitive connection with a territory, from which he extracts materials, textures, and shapes. Working in a short supply chain, he collects rocks, branches, or bark, and lets the material guide his gesture. His instinctive approach gives rise to unique and custom-made pieces: furniture, sculptures, and lighting, conceived as fragments of landscape. Between France and Japan, he cultivates a practice rooted in listening to the living, sculpting interior, poetic, and singular landscapes.
