Every summer, Villa Noailles highlights the emerging international scene in Toulon and Hyères through the Design Parade 2023 festival, which will be held from June 23 to 25. Jean-Pierre Blanc, director of Villa Noailles, founder and director of the festival, announced the finalists, in the heart of the 19M gallery in Paris.
DESIGN PARADE HYÈRES
Created in 2006, with as godmother Andrée Putman, the Design Parade Hyères festival aims to share with the public and the professionals the contemporary creation in the field of design. As major point, the competition presents ten young designers every year offering them a unique visibility and support. Chaired by designer and interior architect Noé Duchaufour Lawrance, the jury of the 17th edition of Design Parade Hyères includes nine members: designer plasticien Guillaume Bardet, journalist Clara Le Fort, Marion Mailaender, Jean-Marie Massaud, Luca Nichetto, co-founder of Passa ao Futuro Astrid Rovisco Suzano, landscape architect Bas Smets, designers Claire Pondard and Léa Pereyre, winners of the Grand Prix of the Jury Design Parade Hyères 2022.
The finalists
This year, the works of Desia Ava, Lorie Bayen El-Kaim, Yassine Ben Abdallah, Lucien Dumas & Lou Poko Savadogo, Gala Espel, James Haywood, Francisco Jaramillo, Vital Lainé, Miles Le Gras, and Florian Meca have been selected to be exposed in Villa Noailles and at the art gallery L'Annexe.
The awards
The winner of the Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères 2023 will be awarded a one-year research residency at the Manufacture et Musée nationaux in Sèvres; a one-year research and production residency at the Cirva (International Glass and Visual Arts Research Centre) in Marseille, to create a vase. This vase will be produced in triplicate: one for the Cirva collection, one for the permanent collection at the villa Noailles and one for the designer. Finally the participation at the competition as jury member and a personal exhibition at the villa Noailles during Design Parade 18, in summer 2024. The 2023 edition has been enriched by a new prize, titled Tectona Prize. Ten designer candidates will be invited to imagine a stackable dining chair - scale 1:2 - on the theme “A break under the sun”, using as the only technical a metal or a natural rot-proof material. The ten models will be exhibited at the Villa Noailles from June 23 to September 3, 2023. The winner will receive 5,000 euros.
DESIGN PARADE TOULON
The festival was established ten years after Design Parade Hyères, in 2016, with as godfather Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, is the first competition and festival devoted to interior design in France. This year, the jury is chaired by architect Aline Asmar d’Amman and includes eleven members: Victoire de Taillac co-founder of l'Officine Universelle Buly, author and editor Gay Gassmann, pastry chef Pierre Hermé, essayist and novelist Judith Housez Aubry, design consultant and curator Oliver Jahn, couturier Rabih Kayrouz, Agnès Liely international visual merchandising director of Chanel, Harry Nuriev and Tyler Billinger, journalist Lindsey Tramuta, interior designers Madeleine Oltra and Angelo de Taisne, winners of the Grand Prix Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels 2022 and of the Visual Merchandising Prize Awarded by Chanel 2022.
The finalists
The works of Joséphine Balayn, Melissa Baranger, Théophile Chatelais & Hadrien Krief, Emily Chakhtakhtinsky & Marisol Santana, Rui Hua & Motong Yang, Sarah Kalvar, Arthur Ristor & Anaïs Hervé, Clément Rosenberg, Mathieu Tran Nguyen, Gala Vernhes-Chazeau will be exhibited in the spaces of Ancien Évêché and Canon gallery.
The awards
Grand Prix Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels
The winner of Design Parade Toulon will be awarded a grant of 5000 euros; the creation of a piece worth €10,000 in collaboration with Delisle; a two-week residency in Atelier Mériguet Parisian; the participation at the competition as jury member and a personal exhibition in Toulon, during Design Parade 7, in summer 2024; and the creation of a piece to the value of 10.000 euros with the workshop François Pouenat.
Prix Visual Merchandising de Chanel
The 10 finalists of the competition will make a model of a window display project linked to the theme of the Mediterranean, presenting an object, a decorative motif or an item of furniture inspired by a silhouette from the Chanel Fashion collections. These models will be exhibited in the former Bishop’s Palace in Toulon until Autumn 2023. Chanel will award a grant of 20,000 euros to the winner of the Visual Merchandising Prize to complete a creative project in collaboration with one or several Maisons d’art, to be exhibited at next year’s festival in 2024.
Prix Mobilier National
The prize offers to one of the 10 finalists the opportunity to develop a creative project within the Arc (Atelier de Recherche et de Création) of the institution.
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Photo: Mathieu Tran Nguyen, Design Parade Toulon 2023
