Talks, workshops, and meetings
MATTER and SHAPE welcomes you to the 20th edition of Design Parade in Hyères with a three-day program celebrating international design. Bringing together architects, designers, cultural figures and former laureates, the event will unfold through a series of talks at Villa Noailles.
As an official partner of the festival, MATTER and SHAPE supports emerging talent and invites the winner of the Design Parade Grand Prize in the Object Design category to exhibit at the salon in March 2027.
June 26 — 28
FRIDAY, JUNE 26
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Design Talk — MATTER and SHAPE : Transmission at the Heart of the Project, with
India Mahdavi, architect and designer
Laura Gonzalez, interior designer
Michela Pelizzari, founder of P:S Agency
Moderated by Nic Monisse, design editor at Monocle (English)
Jardin nord, villa Noailles, Hyères
Admission upon presentation of a Festival Pass
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
10:30 a.m.
Design Talk — MATTER and SHAPE : Design Parade, A Laboratory for Talent, with
Thomas Takada, winner of the 2025 Design Parade Van Cleef & Arpels Grand Prize and the 2025 Visual Merchandising Prize awarded by CHANEL
Simon Dupety, Grand Jury Prize – Object 2025 winner
Hervé Lemoine, president, Manufactures nationales – Sèvres et Mobilier national
Stanislas Colodiet, heritage conservator, director of Cirva
Moderated by Dan Thawley, Creative Director of MATTER and SHAPE (French)
jardin nord, villa Noailles, Hyères
Public, upon presentation of a Festival Pass
SUNDAY, JUNE 28
10:30 a.m. - 11:15 p.m.
Design Talk — MATTER and SHAPE : Design Parade, A Territory of Resources & Inspiration, with
Edgar Jayet, winner of the 2021 Design Parade Van Cleef & Arpels Grand Prize
Kim Anh Le Thi, founder of Un brin c’est tout
Nawal Bakouri, director of the Toulon Provence Méditerranée School of Art and Design
Moderated by Marie Godfrain, editor in chief of IDEAT (French)
Jardin nord, villa Noailles, Hyères
Public, upon presentation of a Pass Festival
Winner of the Van Cleef & Arpels Grand Prize at Design Parade Toulon and the Visual Merchandising Prize awarded by CHANEL—2025
Friday, June 26, at 3:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., and Sunday, June 28, at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour
Workshop for adults, ages 16 and up
Paid workshop, registration required: €12
Create a lamp with endless variations using minimal materials and a simple process.
Thomas Takada is a French artist born in Japan whose practice lies at the intersection of architecture, design, and art. Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, he seeks to foster a fresh, curious, and innocent perspective on our physical environment. Aware of the dynamics of globalization and the growing complexity of materials and production methods, he favors a local and hands-on approach. His work aims to be educational, poetic, and focused on the essentials.
@thomastakada
Simon Dupety is the winner of the Design Parade Hyères Grand Prize – 2025
Léonard Bayeurte is a guest artist and designer, with a PhD in Design from ENSAD PSL
Friday, June 26 at 3:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 28 at 10:00 a.m.
Duration: 2 hours
Workshop for adults ages 16 and up
Registration required
Fee: €15
Y32
Why do shelves have holes spaced 32 mm apart?
How can the branches of a tree be put to practical use?
Can we combine an industrial system with an organic resource?
Using Y-shaped branches and semi-finished products, the Y32 workshop will explore design using natural and industrial resources. Emerging from this convergence, the objects created will evoke a vision of repurposing and reappropriation, and will engage in a dialogue about the role of living things in our modes of production.
Simon Dupety founded the design studio simon+ in 2021 and explores craftsmanship and its traditional and future applications. There, he develops a laboratory of imagination in opposition to the standardization of our daily lives. Drawing on reflections about the manufacturing systems he encounters through his craft experiences, he creates hybrid objects by blending traditional craftsmanship, industrial materials, and natural resources.
Léonard Bayeurte, who trained first in fine woodworking and then in design, explores the connections between craftsmanship, techniques, and living organisms. Since 2022, he has been working with the spontaneous forms of trees, drawing on an analogy between the process of biological reproduction and industrial production. He is currently pursuing his research as part of a SACRe doctoral program at EnsadLab and the Campus Mode, Métiers d’Art & Design.
@simon_dupety
FRIDAY 26th JUNE
5:30 p.m.
Encounter with François Pouenat, restitution project for the historical door
villa Noailles, Hyères
Admission upon presentation of a Festival Pass
SATURDAY 27th JUNE
11:00 a.m.
Guided tour in english of the Design Parade exhibitions,
villa Noailles, Hyères,
Public, upon presentation of a festival pass - ticketing on villanoailles.com
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Encounter with Florent Guyomar about the Ancrage project, the redesign of the Guévrékian garden,
triangular garden, villa Noailles, Hyères
Public, upon presentation of a Pass Festival
SUNDAY 28th JUNE
11:00 a.m.
English guided tour of the Design Parade Exhibitions
villa Noailles, Hyères
Public upon presentation of a Festival Pass
4:00 p.m.
young public visit 4-8 years old
villa Noailles, Hyères