THEMA: ART + DESIGN

: NEW LOCATION REVEALED! FOR ITS 4TH PARIS EDITION, THEMA TAKES OVER ONE OF THE CITY'S MOST EMBLEMATIC ADDRESSES FOR ART AND CONTEMPORARY CREATION. OUR NEW VENUE IS THE FORMER SOTHEBY'S AUCTION HOUSE. DURING PARIS ART WEEK, A CURATION OF GALLERIES, ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS WILL INHABIT THE 1000 M2 SPACE WITH THEIR SCENOGRAPHIES AND INSTALLATIONS, SHAPING A DIALOGUE ACROSS DISCIPLINES. SAVE THE DATE OCTOBER 21-25, 2026 76 RUE DU FAUBOURG SAINT-HONORÉ, 75008 PARIS APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN. MORE INFO AT THEMA-FAIR.COM OR VIA DM.

: NEW LOCATION REVEALED! FOR ITS 4TH PARIS EDITION, THEMA TAKES OVER ONE OF THE CITY'S MOST EMBLEMATIC ADDRESSES FOR ART AND CONTEMPORARY CREATION. OUR NEW VENUE IS THE FORMER SOTHEBY'S AUCTION HOUSE. DURING PARIS ART WEEK, A CURATION OF GALLERIES, ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS WILL INHABIT THE 1000 M2 SPACE WITH THEIR SCENOGRAPHIES AND INSTALLATIONS, SHAPING A DIALOGUE ACROSS DISCIPLINES. SAVE THE DATE OCTOBER 21-25, 2026 76 RUE DU FAUBOURG SAINT-HONORÉ, 75008 PARIS APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN. MORE INFO AT THEMA-FAIR.COM OR VIA DM.

: NEW LOCATION REVEALED! FOR ITS 4TH PARIS EDITION, THEMA TAKES OVER ONE OF THE CITY'S MOST EMBLEMATIC ADDRESSES FOR ART AND CONTEMPORARY CREATION. OUR NEW VENUE IS THE FORMER SOTHEBY'S AUCTION HOUSE. DURING PARIS ART WEEK, A CURATION OF GALLERIES, ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS WILL INHABIT THE 1000 M2 SPACE WITH THEIR SCENOGRAPHIES AND INSTALLATIONS, SHAPING A DIALOGUE ACROSS DISCIPLINES. SAVE THE DATE OCTOBER 21-25, 2026 76 RUE DU FAUBOURG SAINT-HONORÉ, 75008 PARIS APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN. MORE INFO AT THEMA-FAIR.COM OR VIA DM.

: VEGETERIANS, PLEASE REFRAIN Somewhere between a delicatessen and a cabinet of curiosities, this armoire embodies Coll-Part’s characteristic black humor. Its red epidermis, stretched and polished like freshly tanned hide, turns a bourgeois furnishing into an equivocal carcass. The knives embedded in its flesh (handles as much as instruments of torture) lend the whole a note of domestic sadism. Perched on bony legs of a dubious white, the creature seems poised to flee the living room and rejoin some anatomical theater. In the purest tradition of domestic absurdity (from Jacques Carelman to Eugène Ionesco) Coll-Part orchestrates here a jubilant collision between the functional and the impractical, the familiar and the monstrous. The armoire becomes a martyred body, an organic readymade, a pop sculpture tinged with baroque references. One stores one’s shirts in the viscera; one hangs a coat from the knives. The artist is exclusively represented by THEMA. Link of the catalog in bio.

: FROM BRAZIL WITH LOVE Rooted in an ongoing artistic dialogue between France and Brazil, Bref design art is a nomadic curatorial platform dedicated to introducing emerging Brazilian and French artists within international collector and institutional circles. With over 18 years of experience championing contemporary artists and designers, Pat Monteiro Leclercq (Bref’s founder) actively supports practices that honor environmental responsibility while valorizing traditional craftsmanship and cultural heritage. At THEMA, Bref presented a curated selection including a distinctive gingham-patterned coat stand and chair hybrid, alongside sculptural seating pieces and decorative objects that exemplify the platform’s commitment to functional art and cross-cultural design innovation. 📷 : @cisrae

: RED IS THE COLOR OF « This red is complex: born of a mineral (cinnabar) extracted from distant Spanish mines and valued as highly as Alexandrian blue, as Pliny the Elder wrote, he who so delighted in weighing the worth of colors. What must be known about cinnabar above all else: a stone more dangerous than precious. When this red does not clothe the fabric girding Achilles’ V-shaped waist in the frescoes of the poet’s chamber, it becomes a deadly poison. Harmful to the entrails, Pliny wrote. Elsa tells me of that August evening when, softly and in the distance, lava flows and gently warms the cinnabar of the tragic poet’s house walls. Her guests breathe in vapors of madness. They dance, strangely. And now I see it clearly: the red of Elsa’s torches is the very same that heralds the burning clouds of Pompeii: The end and the renewal. It is the red of the last night, and the red of the first dance. » — Lise Kervennic, on the exhibition « Red Narrative » by Elsa Foulon at THEMA 📷 : @cisrae

: TO NEST OR NOT TO NEST Jean-Guillaume Mathiaut creates his furniture in his atelier, nestled in the heart of the Fontainebleau forest in Bourron-Marlotte, the village where he grew up. Initially trained as an architect, his practice fuses sculpture, architecture, and design. Early in his career, he began crafting furniture from fossilized and decaying trees found in the forest, giving these materials a second life. Both a playground and a place of healing, the forest remains Mathiaut’s primary source of inspiration. Another leitmotif in his oeuvre is the human figure, transfigured through childlike lines. His “Menschs” evoke forms from a folkloric repertoire, recalling totemic figures. They pay tribute to the oak tree, which he calls “the king of the forest.” 📷 : @cisrae

Founded in 2013 as a father-son partnership, WonderGlass has repositioned Venetian glassmaking within contemporary art and design. Operating between London and Italy, the studio bridges historical craft with architectural ambition, working primarily on bespoke commissions that test the material’s formal and conceptual limits. We spoke with them following their presentation at THEMA about tradition as evolution, the city as mental construct, and why unfamiliarity matters. The full interview is now live on our website. Link in bio.

: LIFE ON MARS This hand-carved desk in red eucalyptus wood recalls the planet from which it takes its name: Mars. Its natural red lustre evokes molten lava, while the spherical legs ground the piece with a sense of gravity and permanence. A lamp stands guard at its side, crafted from sea rush harvested in coastal marshes and meticulously woven under a metal frame. The sphere (a recurring motif in Altin Studio’s work) may symbolise the constant influence of celestial bodies on the biosphere, as well as the possibility of worlds yet to be explored. Through the transposition of ancestral know-how into a speculative framework, this piece participates in a distinctly contemporary Afro-futurist ethos. Altin Studio is formed by the artistic duo Yasmine Sfar and Mehdi Kebaier. At the core of Altin’s practice lie values of preservation (of ancestral traditions and natural resources) and social empowerment. Working hand in hand with artisans across Tunisia, the duo situates their oeuvre within the continuity of centuries-old craft techniques. Four elemental materials form their vocabulary, each with distinct physical and symbolic qualities: wood, metal, clay, and sea rush. 📷 : @cisrae

: INITIALS BB Corpus Studio is a Paris-based duo composed of Konrad Steffensen and Ronan Le Grand whose multidisciplinary approach blends architecture, interior and design. Their duo is nested in a constellation-network of artisans, builders and engineers where each individual may bring their expertise to the collaboration. This “BB sconce” is part of the Studio‘s latest BB Collection, their most playful and sumptuous project to date. This sconce is made of solid brass, which gives it a natural bright sheen akin to light. All throughout the making of the BB collection, furniture was sparsely polished to enable the material’s innate beauty to shine through. The subtle lines of the object and the shadow it casts when suspended on an interior wall creates an enigmatic composition which bears witness to the designers’ keen eye for details. 📷 : @cisrae

: THE OTHER SIDE This sculpture by Amélie Caussade forms part of a series devoted to the breast, approached not as an image but as a self-contained volume. The surface (worked through repeated sanding and successive layers of lacquer applied to laminated plaster) yields a smooth, almost stone-like skin, one that lets light pass over it without adhesion. Black cancels any erotic projection. What remains is a form, irreducible. Trained in physiotherapy, Caussade approaches sculpture through anatomy: axes, points of support, internal tensions. Plaster, her material of choice for its plasticity and its capacity to retain the memory of gesture, lends itself to a slow, accumulative process. The breast is not represented here but reconstructed from within, like a body that holds itself. A modernist lineage is evident (Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth) yet stripped back, perhaps more radical in its refusal of the picturesque. 📷 : Charles Helleu

: MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME La Lune’s booth at THEMA foregrounds raw materiality and the sensual intelligence of craft. The black walls imposed by the fair’s scenography are turned into an asset: they absorb light, allowing the warmth of carved wood, the pearly sheen of marquetry, and the depth of patinated surfaces to come into full relief. Each piece (a console with elegantly curved legs, a chest inlaid with mother-of-pearl motifs) attests to a slow, attentive engagement with matter, to an intimate exchange between the artisan and the material. On the floor, amorphous black fabric poufs act as soft plinths, inviting visitors to linger before the works. Their dense texture contrasts with the fluidity of the gilded wood in the foreground and with the milky whiteness of the twisted column at the center. The ensemble unfolds as a tactile, almost haptic experience: the grain of the wood seems legible to the touch, as do the coolness of the mother-of-pearl and the velvety softness of the textile. 📷 : @cisrae