MAIN PARTNERS

  • Atelier September
    , Denmark
    Atelier September is a Copenhagen café that seamlessly blends culinary vegetarian artistry with a deep appreciation for art and design. Now, located in the heart of the city; Kronprinsessegade, Nordhavn and Hellerup each place offers a serene space where food, aesthetics, and culture converge. If you find yourself eating at Atelier September, you might be served eggs on a 150-year-old Etruscan plate.

  • Balbosté
    , France
    Founded in 2017 by Charlotte Sitbon, Balbosté is an independent culinary event production agency. Originally conceived as a creative studio and catering company, it now supports international clients in designing bespoke experiences. Driven by its founder’s expertise in artistic direction and advertising, Balbosté brings together chefs and designers through an integrated approach, where gastronomy, aesthetics, and storytelling come together with a high level of excellence.

  • Bang & Olufsen
    , Denmark
    Bang & Olufsen, founded in 1925 in Struer, Denmark by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, is a luxury audio brand built on their enduring vision. For 100 years, the company has pushed audio technology forward. Today, its products stand out for their beautiful sound, timeless design, and unrivalled craftsmanship.

  • Birkenstock 1774
    , France
    With roots tracing back to 1774, BIRKENSTOCK has developed a distinctive design language grounded in anatomy, function, and enduring craftsmanship. BIRKENSTOCK 1774 is the brand’s creative studio, overseeing all special projects, collaborations with like-minded partners, and the dedicated 1774 line featuring collections designed both in-house and with guest designers. Serving as a platform for product innovation, creativity, and creation, 1774 builds on the brand’s heritage while pushing its design language forward. Guided by the anatomically shaped footbed, BIRKENSTOCK continues to merge industrial precision, natural materials, and contemporary experimentation with a deep respect for tradition.
  • Byredo
    , Sweden
    Byredo is a European luxury brand founded in Stockholm in 2006 by Ben Gorham, with an ambition to translate memories and emotions into products and experiences. Byredo is reinventing the world of luxury through a new approach, where creation is led by emotions, expressing a full and limitless brand universe. Byredo creates and develops a range of products such as fragrance, makeup, home, leather goods and accessories, and is sold in more than 40 countries in a very high-end exclusive network worldwide.

  • Design Parade Hyères
    , France
    Created in 2006, founded by Jean-Pierre Blanc with Andrée Putman and presided over by Pascale Mussard, the Design Parade Hyères is a festival that aims to share contemporary creation in the field of design.

    The competition presents ten young designers every year, offering them unique visibility and support. 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.

  • Dreamin' Man
    , France
    Dreamin Man coffee shop opened in Paris in 2019 by partners Yuichiro Sugiyama and Yui Matsuzaki. The duo blends modern coffee culture with wooden tables, plates, and counters that they love, creating the feeling of enjoying coffee in nature. Yuichiro, a former barista at Boot Café, makes the coffee whilst Yui creates the delicious pastries that are baked daily from seasonal local market finds.

  • Heven
    , USA
    Heven Homeware run by Breanna Box and Peter Dupont Handblown glass produced in Brooklyn NYC.

  • OLFACTORY SIGNALS
    , Italy
    Olfactory Signals is a B2B & B2C salon that explores the power of fragrance as an artistic medium and sensory experience. The project is part of a broader research movement that challenges the conventional perception of fragrance, removing it from commercial frameworks and placing it in a creative context. Through installations, interactions, and collaborations with artists and designers, Olfactory Signals offers an immersive experience that explores new connections between smell, art, memory, and emotion.

  • Older
    , Italy
    OLDER Studio is a Danish/Italian design company specialised in sustainable uniforms that expand the architectural spaces in which they are worn. The studio is founded by Letizia Caramia and Morten Thuesen in 2013. The duo met whilst working at Alexander McQueen in London. Today clients include many of the world’s leading architecture, design and gastronomy institutions.

  • Zara Home
    , Spain
    Zara Home is the home furnishing brand of the Inditex Group. Its collections offer everything needed to decorate different spaces with a style that is simple yet timeless. Launched in 2003, the brand now operates in over 60 markets with more than 400 stores. As the brand evolves, its focus remains on accompanying and leaving an impact on customers, always with a clear emphasis on quality. Over time, Zara Home has developed inspiring special collections, extending its product range into lifestyle offerings.

MEDIA PARTNERS

  • AmiGo
    , USA
    AmiGo is an invite-only app for discovering, saving, and sharing curated recommendations within a trusted community of tastemakers and like-minded travelers. We believe travel begins the moment you leave home — not as something reserved for once or twice a year, but as a way of experiencing the world. Discover your next favorite place. Download AmiGo and skip the waitlist with code MATTERANDSHAPE.

    amigo.app
  • Apartamento
    , Spain
    Apartamento is widely recognised as today’s most influential, inspiring, and honest interiors magazine. International, well designed, simply written, and tastefully curated since 2008, it is an indispensable resource for individuals who are passionate about the way they live. The publication is published biannually from its headquarters in Barcelona.

    www.apartamentomagazine.com
  • Ark Journal
    , Denmark
    Copenhagen-based, Ark Journal is a biannual magazine founded by Editor-in-Chief Mette Barfod and made by an experienced team of designers, stylists, photographers and editors. The 240-page magazine is sold in 25 countries around the world.

    At Ark Journal we explore the spaces around us, the objects we put in them and the people who make them. Bridging architecture, design and art, we show them as interplay rather than in silos, and with a sense of enduring Scandinavian values and aesthetics. We celebrate good ideas, honest and inventive design and materials and encourage critical debate. Each issue we visit extraordinary homes around the world that are more than the sum of their parts and that express the personal narratives of the people who live in them, their philosophies and influences. By placing architecture at the core of Ark Journal, we want to consider it in the broader context of our lives, reflecting its more humanistic side and celebrating tactility and individual dimensions.

    www.ark-journal.com
  • Blau International
    , Germany
    An art magazine established in 2014, BLAU turned global in 2019, becoming the English-language BLAU INTERNATIONAL. Under the direction of editor-in-chief Cornelius Tittel from Berlin, the sophisticated bi-annual publication opens a portal to the ancient, modern, and contemporary art worlds, while also consistently folding in fashion editorials, the most private of collections, and discreet interiors. An object to be held and read.

    www.blau-international.com
  • Cultured Mag
    , USA
    CULTURED at HOME—a new publication from the art world’s favorite magazine—is here. The new magazine infuses a literary sensibility into design discourse through deep study of how artists live.

    www.culturedmag.com
  • Design Anthology
    , Hong Kong
    Design Anthology was founded in 2014 as a print magazine dedicated to Asia’s burgeoning design scene. More than a decade later, it has evolved into a modern, multiplatform media brand focused on documenting creative culture across Asia Pacific and beyond. Under the direction of editor-in-chief Jeremy Smart, Design Anthology’s flagship biannual print magazine remains at the heart of the brand, complemented by a flourishing presence across its film, web, social and email platforms, as well as in-person gatherings and industry-leading programmes such as the Design Anthology Awards. Produced by an international team based in key cities across the region, Design Anthology is committed to chronicling enduring spaces, products and ideas that enrich the daily lives of its culturally attuned and worldly audience. Its global roster of contributors brings the best reporting, writing, photography and illustration to readers, delivering exclusive access to the most interesting and innovative openings — from homes to hotels, restaurants to retail spaces. Design Anthology is built on a foundation of depth and integrity. Every story, across every platform, helps to foster lasting connections between its readers, the subjects it features and the wider community of designers, thinkers, makers and patrons who share its belief in the cultural value of good design. Design Anthology’s care for the reader experience extends beyond words and images. The print edition is a highly collectible object, at home on coffee tables and bookshelves, in libraries and studios for years after publication. These production values carry through to its experiential and digital platforms, bringing the same creative and editorial discipline and ensuring that Design Anthology’s global audience enjoys a rich, fulfilling and enduring relationship with the world of Design Anthology.

    design-anthology.com
  • ErniCreative
    , France
    ErniCreative Collaborates with Artists and Creative Entities Worldwide . Exploring , Co - Creating , and Sharing their Works with Partners and Clients . Our Work Spans Magazines , Brands , Public Art Projects , and Cultural Institutions - among other initiatives - Delivering Impactful and Borderless Cultural Experiences .

    www.ernicreative.com
  • Exhibition Magazine
    , France
    Exhibition is a magazine dedicated to fashion and its cultural intersections, where savoir-faire, art and contemporary aesthetics meet. Conceived as an exhibition space and printed as an art object, it serves as a laboratory for ideas and emerging talents. Extending this vision, Exhibition Studio acts as an agency specializing in luxury fashion and beauty, translating editorial culture into bold and distinctive brand narratives.

    www.exhibition-magazine.com
  • FORMAE
    , France
    FORMÆ is a magazine that invites you to experience new creative territories through the prism of materials. With a prospective and inspiring approach, FORMÆ explores the creative, intellectual and technical potentials of materials in design and interior architecture.

    www.formaemagazine.com
  • Geste/s
    , France
    An audacious publication released in 2022 to editorial acclaim, Geste/s is the foremost magazine dedicated to crafts, excellent savoir-faire and contemporary design. Each quarter, the expert editorial team, with the fine eye of photographers, bears witness to, sheds light on, questions, and shares the virtuosity of crafts and creative reflection. Under the direction of Yamina Benaï with editor-in-chief Emmanuel Rubin and Aldo Buscalferri, artistic director, Geste/s (Quarterly, 220 pages) is published through the Groupe Beaux Arts & Cie.

    www.beauxarts.com
  • Holiday Interiors & Gardens
    , France
    Holiday International Interiors and Gardens Review, a new publication born from the spirit that has defined Holidaysince 1946: the encounter between literary journalism and artistic photography, and a way of looking at the world that is both curious and timeless.

    www.holiday-paris.fr
  • Madame Figaro
    , France
    Under the creative direction of Anne Florence Schmitt’s teams, Madame Figaro asserts its unique position by offering, on one hand, a visionary spirit and, on the other, a rich cultural melting pot. Madame Figaro is a truly global brand, harnessing creativity through four fundamental and differentiating pillars: Business, Culture, Style, and Engagement.

    madame.lefigaro.fr
  • Modern Weekly
    , China
    Modern Weekly, a Reader for Global New Citizens. As one of China’s most influential fashion and culture media, founded in 1998, it has long focused on global trends in fashion, art, design, business, and contemporary lifestyles.

    www.modernweekly.com
  • Monocle
    , United Kingdom
    Monocle is an independent voice on global affairs, business, design, culture and much more. Founded in 2007, we go beyond the headlines to deliver sharp analysis, inspiring ideas and deep reporting – and all with an ambitious global perspective.

    monocle.com
  • Patter
    , United Kingdom
    Patter is an independent style and culture platform that finds beauty - and pleasure - in the everyday. Founded by Ellie Hay in 2017, Patter is based in London and enjoyed internationally. Patter publishes informed and purposeful content — its newsletters, features and monthly 'List of Useful Recommendations' have cultivated a community who are shaping the cultural landscape ahead.

    www.patterlondon.com
  • Pin-Up
    , USA
    PIN–UP is a New York-based magazine focused on pure architectural entertainment — the meeting point of architecture, art, and design.

    www.pinupmagazine.org
  • Plus Magazine
    , USA
    Plus Magazine is a New York-based biannual print and digital publication dedicated to contemporary art, design, and culture. Founded with a focus on thoughtful pacing and editorial depth, PLUS brings together creative voices across disciplines to tell stories shaped by practice, perspective, and lived experience.

    plusmagazine.net
  • System Magazine
    , France
    System explores with style and substance the dialogues at the heart of the global fashion industry. Its biannual magazine offers exclusive long-format conversations with fashion’s most relevant, most powerful and most opinionated individuals, accompanied by portfolios created by the industry’s most in-demand image-makers. Exploring and commenting on fashion’s constantly shifting landscape, System is a platform for deep thoughts and real opinions – shared within the industry and, in turn, influencing the broader world.

    system-magazine.com
  • THE GRAND TOURIST
    , USA
    The Grand Tourist with Dan Rubinstein podcast explores the greatest tastemakers in the world of luxury today, from world-class chefs to experimental architects. In the show, Rubinstein uses his unique design lens to explore the worlds of fashion, art, interior design, travel, food, and culture. Its first print issue will debut in May.

    thegrandtourist.net
  • The New Era
    , Sweden
    Widely known as one of the foremost magazines hailing from Scandinavia, The New Era Magazine brings together interiors, architecture, design and craft in a beautifully designed biannual publication. In every issue, readers are introduced to some of the most interesting homes, people and topics of the moment.

    Through in-depth features, striking photography, and insightful conversations, The New Era celebrates the places we live in and the objects we surround ourselves with.

    www.theneweramagazine.com
  • The Plant
    , Spain
    Twining from botanical roots through the fields of photography, art, fashion, food, ecology and horticulture, The Plant is a fresh view onto the growing world. A celebration of magnificent, modest, exotic and everyday plants, and the creative enterprises they inspire.

    theplantmagazine.com
  • The Savoir Faire
    , France
    The Savoir-Faire is the first international magazine dedicated to French artisanal excellence and design with an annual publication in English. Through interviews, stories, reflections, portraits and portfolios, this collector's magazine reveals the places, the professions, the talents as well as the diversity, creativity, relevance and sustainability that make French savoir-faire resonate throughout the world. The Savoir-Faire (annual, 220 pages) is designated under le haut patronage du Ministère de la Culture, directed by le Mobilier national with design and production by Yamina Benaï and Emmanuel Rubin.

    www.beauxarts.com
  • Tools
    , France
    Tools Inc is a creative platform helping redefine how design, craftsmanship, architecture, photography and creativity at large can be approached.

    tools-inc.com

Technical Partners

  • Debeaulieu
    , France
    Debeaulieu is a flower shop and studio in the 9th arrondissement, founded in 2013 by Pierre Banchereau. The studio explores the meeting of timelessness with modernity to create new associations of plants or colors. They reinterpret classical compositions and shapes by integrating strange, surprising, unknown, outdated or recolored flowers. In 2017, the shop expanded into a workshop and creative studio where Banchereau and his team design decorations for events and domestic spaces.

    www.debeaulieu-paris.com
  • Flos
    , Italy
    Since December 2018, Flos has been part of the Flos B&B Italia Group, a global high-end design group that operates several heritage brands in the luxury furniture and lighting sectors, rooted in a strong European cultural legacy. Guided by its philosophy, “We design for a beautiful life,” the Group creates products for the planet, people, and culture.

    flos.com
  • Frama
    , Denmark
    FRAMA forms sensory human connection through the lens of objects and spatial works. Based in Copenhagen, FRAMA is a multi-disciplinary brand encompassing furniture, self care, lighting, and lifestyle objects that encourage mindful living. With an emphasis on balancing material expression, the result is a transparent design language that allows thought to take form.

    framacph.com
  • Ikhor
    , France
    Custom wallpapers, carpets and fabrics.

    www.ikhor.fr
  • Isohemp
    , Belgium
    IsoHemp manufactures hemp blocks on an industrial scale, offering global, durable, and high-performance insulation solutions for new constructions and renovation projects in the residential, tertiary, and even industrial sectors.

    www.isohemp.com
  • Latency
    , France
    Latency is an independent record label and curatorial platform based in Paris. Latency spans continents, weaving together diverse traditions and genres to present a rich, expansive tapestry of sound from around the world. The label’s distinctive aesthetic is further articulated through collaborations with contemporary artists for its cover artworks.

    Beyond recorded music, Latency has produced concerts at leading institutions and festivals worldwide, including the Paris Panthéon, Berlin Atonal, Villa Medici, Marian Goodman Gallery, Pioneer Works, and Palazzo Grassi, among others. Extending beyond the format of the record label, Latency’s curatorial practice also engages with film, fashion, art, and live performance.

    Latency is run by Souleymane Said. It was established in 2013 by Souleymane Said and Sidney Gerard.

    www.latency.fr
  • MDF Italia
    , Italy
    For MDF Italia, design is about shaping matter with ideas. More than simple products, the results of this process are thought forms. Our vocation has always been to create objects that not only become icons but will also succeed in defining the canon of contemporary design.

    www.mdfitalia.com
  • Optima
    , France
  • Profirst
    , Belgium
    We create events. We generate memories by fusing creativity, innovation and design. We bring to life moments, projects, events on and off screen, to create unforgettable experiences, sparking conversations and creating lasting impressions. An agency run by a multi-disciplinary team, combining experience, contemporary culture expertise and production detail. An agency with three doors : Paris, Brussels, London. Specialists in crafting stories, making them ready to share. From story-telling, to story-sharing.

    www.profirst.com
  • Sophia Taillet
    , France
    At the intersection of art, design, and craft, Sophia Taillet is a Paris-based designer exploring material, gesture, and movement. She creates objects and installations by weaving links between design, craftsmanship, and choreography. Through an experimental and material-driven practice, she works with materials such as glass and metal, often developed in close dialogue with craftsmen and workshops. Her work has been presented at Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Ricard, the Musée de la Chasse, and is part of the Mobilier National collection. The installation Spinning Mirror was recently acquired by the Emerige Foundation. She will be in residency at Villa Albertine in New York in 2026.

    www.sophiataillet.com
  • Stand-ING
    , France
    Stand-ING is a company offering services in exhibitions and events since 2006. The company supports clients from the conception of the project to the execution, including manufacturing, delivery and more. Our work and our economic model are eco-sustainable, including the use of eco-responsible materials.

    stand-ing.com
  • USM
    , Switzerland
    USM is synony­mous with timeless, sustain­able design that evolves with our needs, gener­ation after gener­ation, whether in the workplace or at home. USM was founded in 1885, as an iron­mongery and metal­working company in Münsingen, Switzer­land.

  • Vitra
    , Switzerland
    A Swiss company dedicated to improving the quality of homes, offices and public spaces through the power of design.

    www.vitra.com

Institutional

  • Design Parade Hyères
    , France
    Created in 2006, founded by Jean-Pierre Blanc with Andrée Putman and presided over by Pascale Mussard, the Design Parade Hyères is a festival that aims to share contemporary creation in the field of design.

    The competition presents ten young designers every year, offering them unique visibility and support. 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.

    villanoailles.com
  • Manufactures Nationales — Sèvres et Mobilier National
    , France
  • VILLA HEGRA
    , Saudi Arabia
    Villa Hegra is a bilateral institution promoting cultural cooperation between Saudi Arabia and France. Located in AlUla, in north-west Saudi Arabia, it supports contemporary artistic practices, particularly in the fields of visual arts, design, cinema and performing arts. With activations ongoing since 2023, Villa Hegra opened its doors in 2025, establishing a new destination for artist residencies and cultural initiatives. Its programme is built around transmission and collaboration, inviting audiences to actively take part in the creative process. Villa Hegra belongs to the international network ¡Viva Villa!, including Villa Medici, Villa Kujoyama, Casa de Velázquez, Villa Albertine and Villa Swagatam.

HOSPITALITY PARTNERS

  • 2934 Gin
    , France
    2934 was born from human connections and a single desire: to create a genuine gin, far from mass production. Every ingredient was chosen for its story and character: roasted buckwheat, orange zest, tomato leaves. It’s a classic base with a daring twist. Distilled using the London Dry method with no added colors or flavors, 2934 has a precise, elegant, and unique aromatic profile. It’s a gin that surprises, moves you, and is truly.

    bagspirit.com
  • Castalie
    , France
    Castalie is a eco-responsible brand offering premium microfiltered water solutions that reduce single-use plastic and lower carbon impact. Since 2011, their beautifully designed systems have helped businesses and hotels enjoy purer water while protecting the planet.

    www.castalie.com
  • Madré Mezcal
    , Mexico
    Madre is a celebration of mother earth offering artisanal mezcal made in the rural hills of Oaxaca and additive-free tequila made in the highlands of Jalisco. Crafted with intention by using nature's most intrinsic elements, Madre reflects the essence of nature in its purest form.

    madremezcal.com
  • Maison 3
    , France
    Maison 3, a refined cocktail bar, embodies a certain Parisian sensibility: curated, warm, and design-conscious. A place where materials, light, and encounters meet. Just a few steps from the Jardin des Tuileries, Maison 3 opens its doors to the Matter and Shape community.
  • OmaFrida
    , France
    Oma Frida is a French artisanal beverage brand crafting naturally sparkling, alcohol-free drinks made from organic grapes, verjus, and herbal infusions. It celebrates mindful, joyful sipping as a modern and responsible alternative for gatherings and gastronomy.

  • Touriste Group
    , France
    A small hotel group founded by Adrien Gloaguen in 2008, Touriste allows itself the luxury of only developing projects it enjoys.

    touriste.com
  • Wild and The Moon
    , France
    Wild & The Moon is a plant-based wellness café concept focused on organic, seasonal, cold-pressed juices, vegan food, and sustainable practices. With a commitment to nourishing the body and the planet, they champion locally sourced and clean ingredients in every dish and drink.

    www.wildandthemoon.fr