Maison & Objet 2009 Offers Antodotes to Crisis

In Paris this week Maison et Objet, a major trade fair, is spotlighting new trends in home style and proposing Antidotes to the gloomy time of financial crisis - the assertive reaction to color as a remedy to the gloom, through the staging of the shelter and creativity:

"Faced with a disoriented world wavering from crisis to crisis, the home has
become, now more than ever, a safety value that leaves us dreaming of better
living. In its modest, intimate way, that place for experimenting with change
consoles us with antigloom remedies. There is no miracle solution. But all kinds
of creation, know-how and technologies, colors and whimsy, elegance and quality
of life are distilling a new positive energy."

(the Maison & Objet website)

To comfort us in a world of uncertainty, the home is revisiting its classics and fixing up the run-down charm of the known.

Plates - Design: Paola Navone for Reichenbach

Décor is finding colors to cure the ambient grayness. Shock treatment against uniformity and monotony

A rainbow of pixels on all surfaces. On the pictures: Cristian Zuzunaga dresses the creations of Christophe Delcourt

Chroma Sticker - Design: Ich & Kar for Domestic

Commode Stack - Design : Raw Edges et Shay Alkalay pour Established & Sons

Poufs Primary - Design : Arne Quinze pour Quinze for Fifteen in Milan

(photos: marieclairemaison.com)

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