Design Parade Hyères, 19th International Festival of Design
from 27 to 28 June 2025Jean-Pierre Blanc is both the founder and the director of the festival which is presided over by Pascale Mussard.
Created in 2006, with Andrée Putman as a godmother, the Design Parade Hyères festival aims to share with the public and the professionals the contemporary creation in the field of design.
The climax of the festival, the competition presents ten young designers every year, offering them unique visibility and support. The festival is also a moment of sharing, encounters and discoveries. Ten years after its big brother, launched in 2016 with Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec as godfathers, Design Parade Toulon follows the same goals.
Devoted to interior design, it is the first competition and festival of its kind in France. In 2019, the Centre Pompidou signs a pluriannual agreement with the Métropole Toulon Pro-vence Méditerranée to show the national collections of design in Toulon and is joined in 2023 by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Centre national des arts plastiques and the Mobilier
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Henceforth, each summer, the villa Noailles organises Design Parade in two events: the first in Toulon for interior design, and the second in Hyères for design. Design Parade will allow, over an extended weekend, for the fullest view of the decorative arts in contemporary de-sign. The festival is also an opportunity to discover the heritage of these two neighbouring towns, which both offer an expression of the architectural and decorative wealth of the Métropole and Var region.
COMPETITIONS
Several prizes are awarded to the competing designers thanks to grants provided by the festival’s partners who commit, together with the festival, to provide long term support: Sèvres – Manufacture et Musée nationaux, Centre international de recherche sur le verre et les arts plastiques (Cirva) and Tectona for Hyères, Van Cleef & Arpels, CHANEL, le19M, Mobilier national for Toulon.
Practical assistance is provided right from the selection stage as well as during a period of two years in various different domains: financing, production, craft, materials, production, legal, media, exhibitions, workshops and residencies.
The festival presents 10 young international interior architects selected by a prestigious jury, chaired in previous years by India Mahdavi, Vincent Darré, Pierre Yovanovitch, Fran-çois Champsaur, Studio KO, Rodolphe Parente, Aline Asmar d’Amman, and Marion Mai-laender.
Prize
GRAND PRIX DU JURY
DESIGN PARADE HYERES
The Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères consists of:
→ A one-year research residency at Sèvres – Manufacture et Musée nationaux.
With more than 250 years of know-how handed down from generation to generation, the Manufacture de Sèvres is a unique laboratory for creation and innovation, constantly experimenting with new avenues of research and collabo-rating with contemporary designers.
→ a one-year research residency at the Centre interna-tional de recherche sur le verre et les arts plastiques de Marseille (Cirva) on the theme of the vase. At the end of the residency, one piece or a group of pieces will become part of the Cirva collection, a leading body of work on glass and contemporary design, and another will be added to the Villa Noailles collection. The winning designer will retain the majority of their research. This entire research will be presented as part of the next Design Parade, alongside the works created in residence at the Manufacture de Sèvres.
→ MATTER and SHAPE is delighted to be associated with the Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères, offering the winner a place to express his or her ideas during the March 2026 edition of the event. The Design Parade will also be invited to take part in a talk dedicated to the new guard of design.
→ The participation in the competition as jury member and a personal exhibition at the villa Noailles during Design Pa-rade 20, in summer 2026
TECTONA PRIZE
As the leading maker of outdoor furniture, Tectona sup-ports the Design Parade Hyères festival with the crea-tion of the Tectona Design Parade Prize in 2023. Within the framework of this partnership, this year, ten designer candidates will be invited to imagine an outdoor bench on the theme “the bench of tomorrow”. The only technical constraint: use metal or a natural rot-proof material. Each candidate will produce a 1:5 scale model in a simple mate-rial (wood, cardboard, paper), with financial support from Tectona.
The ten models will be exhibited at the Villa Noailles from 27th June until the end of the exhibitions.
The jury, guided by the technical advice of Jean- Yves Grandfils, head of the Tectona workshop and Meilleur Ouvrier de France, will choose the winner who will receive 5,000 euros. The Tectona Design Parade Award is a new page in the history of Tectona’s involvement in French cultural creation and offers garden furniture design the recognition it so richly deserves.
Jaime Hayon, President of the jury Design Parade Hyères and guest of honour
About Jaime Hayon
Jaime Hayon is a globally renowned artist and designer whose work spans furniture, interiors, sculpture, and collectible design. His creations blend playfulness, craftsmanship, and innovation, earning him international acclaim in both contemporary art and design spheres.
