Tokujin Yoshioka – Now ! design à vivre designer
Born in 1967, Tokujin Yoshioka transcends the borders between design, architecture and installation. His designs are created as works of art. His most representative designs include the "Honey-pop" paper chair, the "PANE chair", "STARDUST" and "Stellar" suspensions for the Swarovski Crystal Palace. The "Water Block" bench, a typical design in tubular glass created in 2002, is currently exhibited at the Orsay Museum in Paris. His other major projects include the SWAROVSKI store in Ginza and several stores for ISSEY MIYAKE. He has worked with several major corporations including HERMES, BMW, MOROSO, TOYOTA and LEXUS. His designs are part of the permanent collections of the most famous museums in the world, notably the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) inn New York, the Georges Pompidou centre in Paris etc. His many awards include the "Mainichi Design Award" (2001), the Japanese Government’s Encouragement Award in the Cultural Affairs section (2006), the title of Design Miami "2007 Designer of the Year Award", the title of Elle Déco International Design awards (EDIDA), the TOKYO Design & Art ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS "Artist of the Year 2010" as well as the A&W Architektur & Wohnen "Designer of the year 2011" award. Tokujin Yoshioka has also written several books: "TOUJIN DESIGN" (Gap Publication), "Tokujin Yoshioka Design" (Phaidon Press), "Invisible Forms" (Access Publishing) and "TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA" (Rizzoli International Publications).

Hubert le Gall – Créateur scènes d’intérieur
A trained artist, Hubert le Gall (born 1961) designs furniture that is sculpture and objects whose functional nature is erased by the charm of narrative or abstract form. "His approach consists in revisiting and giving new meaning to furniture and decorative art" writes Elisabeth Delacarte, director of the Avant-Scène, the Parisian showcase of his work. He models materials such as bronze, plaster, resin, wood, glass or ceramics to invent an original animal-furniture collection or plant poetic seeds designed to populate the loveliest interiors. His flower tables are iconic as are his lamps without feet that so effectively express his taste for illusion and deviation. This taste combines with humour and exalts an emotional relationship to objects to which he gives soul. Free expression of an independent designer that plays with fantasy and deviation, but also lines and colours, full and half strokes, presence and void. An artist and scenographer of major exhibitions, Hubert le Gall is now the Scènes d'Intérieur 2012 designer of the year. This recognition celebrates his ability to "drastically chase everyday space", explains Elisabeth Delacarte. This  ability embodies the very spirit of Scènes d'intérieur exhibition dedicated, right from its very beginnings, to the magicians of interior decoration, of whom he is the master.

The FIL VERT itinerary
Launched by MAISON&OBJET, the “Fil Vert” itinerary aims to identify exhibitors in a sustainable development logic. For that, MAISON&OBJET organisers have called on a "partner jury", fine connoisseurs in the field, benefiting from a legitimate and independent standpoint: the media, represented in particular by Prima Maison, Maison Française, Néoplanète…
January - September 2011: Green Attitude permeates throughout MAISON&OBJET.
A fundamental movement, parallel to general corporate empowerment, the "Green Attitude", embodied by this "Fil Vert" covers economies of means (materials, transport, energy consumption), eco-responsibility (with 100% recyclable products, eco-design (linked to innovation and creation approaches) and eco-communication (enhancement of a sustainable development approach).  Consumers now consider the purchasing act as an expression of their individual convictions and demand more transparency. It is important for MAISON&OBJET exhibitors to uphold approaches adopted, favour the development of responsible behaviour. As of January 2012, MAISON&OBJET sets up permanent labelling for each selected exhibitor.

Business Lounge. Hall 5B
At the Côté Déco Actuel sector in hall 5B, this hospitable area is dedicated to networking and business meetings. The different players in the profession may: take part in the different events organised (award ceremonies, debates and conferences, signings, cocktails etc.), work with special ARCHI DESIGNER labelled exhibitors, exchange with their counterparts and employees on their ideas, projects, new products and meet journalists from the trade press.

L’Espace Retail. Hall 5B
The retail world needs to adapt to more demanding, informed and volatile consumers and changes in consumer and purchasing resources (rise of e-commerce and m-commerce). To help deal with these issues, MAISON&OBJET has imagined the Retail space, dedicated to new retail layout solutions. Launched during the previous session, in the form of a didactic exhibition, the Retail space is back in January, in partnership with the AKDV agency, with new proposals to reinvent the point of sale and re-enchant the customer: 16 different ways to give value to an outlet and products according to its identity or through new technology which is currently revolutionising the way products are sold and promoted. A range of suggestions specifically designed for the MAISON&OBJET exhibition, whose methodology is explained in another part of the area, where everyone is invited to exchange with shop-fitting experts.

For its fourth session, PARIS DES CHEFS, the MAISON&OBJET event pre-empting new approaches to gastronomic creativity, arrives in the heart of Paris.  In the illustrious Théâtre de la Mutualité, a key venue in the capital, built in  1930 and recently renovated by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, the cooking event  of early 2012 clearly expresses its originality and the wealth of its  concept. 

Organised by SAFI, within the framework of the international MAISON&OBJET exhibition, PARIS DES CHEFS aims to showcase gateways between the art of cooking and the different fields of creativity. Since the event was set up in 2009, the top names and the most promising talents in French and international gastronomy  have come to dialogue with  architects, designers, artists and photographers in order to highlight the increasingly strong transfers of inspiration between these disciplines.