villa Noailles

Design Parade

June 25 to August 30 2026

Created in 2006 with Andrée Putman as its patron, Design Parade was born of an ambition at once singular and generous: to welcome, share and champion the new faces of design before a wide public over the summer. Through a competition, professional encounters and exhibitions, the festival first celebrated object design at the Villa Noailles in Hyères, before adding, in 2016, a second strand in Toulon devoted to interior architecture, the first of its kind.

 

Twenty years on, the festival has grown and now enjoys an international reach, yet it remains faithful to the vision conceived by its founder, Jean-Pierre Blanc: each summer, ten young object designers and ten young interior architects from around the world are selected by panels of established professionals, then supported by the Villa Noailles and its partners in the conception, production and dissemination of their projects. The festival does more than single out talent: it forges close ties between creators, the craftspeople and expertise of the region, and the professionals of the sector, and in doing so gives emerging creators the means to move from idea to realisation and from realisation to exhibition.

 

For this 2026 edition, Design Parade celebrates a double anniversary: twenty years of object design and ten years of interior architecture. For the first time, the Villa Noailles brings together within its own spaces — some of them exceptionally open to the public for the occasion — the exhibitions of both competitions, while the exhibition 20 + 10 : Génération(s) Design Parade casts, in Toulon, in the heart of the creative quarter, a fond and knowing eye over the festival’s history as a site of transmission; the eye of curator David Giroire.

 

This year, four women choreograph this joyful parade. Sofia Lagerkvist and Anna Lindgren, of the Swedish studio Front, chair the object-design jury and have devised an installation staging their latest creations, true to a conceptual approach steeped in history. On the interior-architecture side, Laura Gonzalez serves as jury president and offers the laureates of the 2025 edition the opportunity to reinterpret the villa’s historic spaces. Under the artistic direction of Julie Liger, the festival thus welcomes Simon Dupety, awarded for object design, and Thomas Takada and Malo Gagliardini, honoured for interior architecture. Alongside them, the 2026 finalists unveil their projects, the architects going so far as to imagine a living space within this very house, one ever more “interesting to live in”, as Marie-Laure and Charles de Noailles might perhaps once again have thought.

 

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Informations

 

Address: Clos Saint-Bernard, 47 montée Noailles