Design Parade Toulon, 9th International Interior Architecture Festival, will take place from June 27th to 29th, 2025.

The festival was founded and is directed by Jean-Pierre Blanc, with Pascale Mussard serving as its president. Established in 2006, with Andrée Putman as its godmother, Design Parade Hyères aims to share contemporary creation in the field of design with both the public and professionals. The festival’s pinnacle is the competition, which each year presents the work of ten emerging designers, offering them a unique platform and unparalleled support. It is also intended to be a moment of exchange, discovery, and connection.

Every summer, the Villa Noailles organizes Design Parade in two distinct sections: in Toulon for interior architecture and in Hyères for design. The festival also serves as an opportunity to explore the heritage of these two neighboring cities, each offering its own expression of the rich architectural and decorative heritage of the Metropole and the Var region. Through this new initiative, Design Parade provides an immersive weekend experience, engaging with all aspects of decorative arts within contemporary creation.

The competition offers several prestigious awards, recognizing the candidates with the support of the festival’s partners, who accompany them over the long term: Sèvres – Manufacture et Musées nationaux, the International Center for Research on Glass and the Visual Arts (Cirva), and Tectona for Hyères, as well as Van Cleef & Arpels, the 19M, CHANEL, and the Mobilier National for Toulon. Practical support is provided from the finalist selection and continues for two years, encompassing various domains: financing, production, craftsmanship, materials, publishing, legal aspects, exhibition, workshops, and residencies.

The festival showcases 10 international young interior designers, selected by a distinguished jury. The jury of Design Parade is:

• Harry Nuriev: President of the Jury, Design Parade Toulon and Guest of Honour
• Alice Audouin: Curator, Chair and Founder, Art of Change 21 and Audouin Consulting
• Olivier Gabet: Director of the Objets d’Art Department, Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Marie Godfrain: Editor-in-Chief, IDEAT, Paris
• Aurélie Julien: Founder, Aurélie Julien Collectible
• Quetch le Moult: Image Creative Concept Director, Division Chanel Mode
• Yann Weber: Founder, Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director, Antidote Magazine
• Willie Morlon: Grand Prize Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels 2024

The 10 finalists of the competition are:
– Pierre Bourré and Margaux Dinam, France
– Raphael Boursier Desvignes, France
– Malo Gagliardini, France
– Marie Gastini, France
– Pauline Labarthe, France
– Magali Lamoureux and Johanne Riachi, France
– Raphaëlle Lhuillier and Margaux Padrutt, France
– Ania Martchenko and Antonin Simon Giraudet, France
– Joseph Melka and Balthazar Auguste-Dormeuil, France – United States
– Thomas Takada, France

For the 9th edition of Design Parade Toulon, the Mobilier national joins the villa Noailles for the Prix Mobilier national. This 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. The prototype created with the Mobilier national will be exhibited the following year with an exhibition imagined by the finalist, with the help and the support of the Mobilier national which mobilizes for this purpose its unique collections in the world and the know-how of its workshops and factories.

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