A curated exhibition dedicated to surprise and inspire, “Maison&Objet Design Factory 2025” will artfully display design features, objects and furniture with a focus on sustainability, material innovation and cultural dialogue, proposing proactive solutions for the modern world. At its heart are 4 immersive pavilions curated by global visionaries, spanning a total of 900 square meters and showcasing over 200 creations from around 80 brands worldwide.
The Pavilions
Clélie Debehault & Liv Vaisberg and Ann Chan
Shifted Mirrors: Fragments of a Dreamed East is a 300 m2 curated exhibition exploring cultural translation, hybridity, and the material poetics between East and West through the lens of contemporary, conscious design. All works featured in the exhibition will also be available for sale.
Curated by Clélie Debehault & Liv Vaisberg, co-founder of COLLECTIBLE Brussels and New York, with scenography by Ann Chan (Hero Design), the show forms part of the Design Factory, a major new international platform presented by Maison&Objet in Hong Kong . The scenography will unfold as a series of 8 to 10 distinct room-like islands, inspired by both traditional East Asian interiors (such as scholar’s studios, teahouses, and courtyard apartments) and their reinterpretations through a Western lens — including new forms of chinoiserie. These rooms will form a spatial journey, inviting visitors to move through fragmented narratives and layered cultural references.
Lionel Jadot
We live in an illusion. A world saturated with waste, artificial images, and frantic consumption. A world that is at heart nothing more than a virtual reality. But behind this façade lies a virtuous parallel universe: the true world. A world where matter speaks for itself, where waste is transformed, where nature reclaims its voice. Anthropocene Adhocsime is both a critique and an invitation. A critique of the way we consume, exhaust, and discard. An invitation to rethink our gestures, to recognize the value of the organic and the local, to build worlds from what we leave behind, overlooked or abandoned. It is also my vision of hospitality. A reimagined hotel room, where welcome is no longer based on artificial luxury but on the immersive sensory experience of a space where nature and the recycled coexist. A place that invites us to dwell differently, to dream differently, to feel hosted within a fragile yet fertile world. Here begins my reality. A reality where imagination becomes matter, and where matter breathes life back into our imagination.
Korakot Aromdee
Breath of Bamboo is a walkable pavilion where wind meets hand, and tradition flows through form. Conceived by Korakot Aromdee, Thailand’s leading bamboo artist, it transforms local wisdom into global contemporary expression.
Inspired by the rhythm of tide and breeze, its fluid parametric curves are crafted from bamboo, rattan, vine, and grass—bound solely by knots, never nails. Each element embodies balance, movement, and sound: corridors echoing Ban Laem’s sea, participatory knot-tying pillars, bamboo that breathes with shifting light, sculptures that sway into harmony, and a global showcase connecting village craft to world stage.
Organic yet precise, Breath of Bamboo is not just a structure—it is a living story of wind, knot, and craft.
Elizabeth Leriche
Living Matters reimagines design not as function, but as resonance—exploring the affective and symbolic powers of matter. At the crossroads of emotion and material, objects become interfaces of care, extensions of body and nature, tactile narratives that soothe, repair, and connect. Organic forms, color, and craftsmanship foster an immersive link with the rhythms of the living world.
Through three sensory universes, the exhibition reflects on our bonds with materials, forms, and spaces, weaving European and Asian creativity. The spaces offer a dynamic and fertile encounter—beyond borders—between European and Asian creative spheres, and the deep connections they weave together. Affective Cocoon offers intimate, soothing refuges; Inner Forest invites us into a porous ecosystem of plants and organic textures; Chromatic Exuberance celebrates color’s radiance and vitality. Together, they propose design as an ecology of care, joy, and belonging.
Maison&Objet Intérieurs Hong Kong (3-6 December) is dedicated to professionals in the design industry.
The event is however open to the general public interested in design on 6 December 2025.
