The streets of the sixth arrondissement were teeming last week with designers, decorators, and journalists who flocked to the heart of Paris for Déco Off, the Fashion Week equivalent of the fine fabric and wallpaper world, and Maison Objet, the sprawling design fair that attracts thousands of international exhibitors and aesthete seekers. Here, _Vogue’_s Home Editor Mieke ten Have shares her top ten favorite trends and moments from her jaunt through Paris’s famed design fairs.
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Photo: (from left) Courtesy of Jim Thompson; Courtesy of Verel de Belval
Courtly Silks
Jim Thompson’s creative director, Ou Baholyodhin, turned to ancient Siamese royal colors for his first silk collection. Saffron, emerald, and amethyst chinoiserie toile motifs shone in beautifully violent color combinations. Créations Métaphores looked to Verel de Belval’s seventeenth-century archives and remade two different lampas, one directly lifted from an old document and the other featuring a leopard print within its stripes—a nod to designer Madeleine Castaing. Luscious and saccharine, the silks look like they could’ve been taken from Marie Antoinette’s boudoir.