Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2026
Image: Fortuitous Witness © Marie Blampain
PHOTOGRAPHY
Marie Blampain
Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode
Marie Blampain is a conceptual photographer, born in 1992 in New Caledonia and currently based in Mexico. Her work is rooted in a studio-based photographic practice, informed by existential reflection. She stages the human body and familiar situations to reveal moments of transition, transformation and becoming. Her winning series, Fortuitous Witness, deliberately suspends individual identity in favour of creating a space for the viewer to project themselves onto the subjects through their positioning and presence. By contrasting the ordinary with visual impact, the series focuses on recollection rather than nostalgia, thereby embedding personal memory within a shared experience.
Image: La Chapelle © Cassandre Lafon
PHOTOGRAPHY
Cassandre Lafon
Dotation le19M de la Photographie des Métiers d’Art
Cassandre Lafon is a filmmaker and photographer, born in 1995 in Lyon and based in Paris. Her intimate approach favours close-ups and an everyday aesthetic, which she brings together into ‘bouquet of images’. Her winning series, La Chapelle, is a collection of 50 film photographs taken between 2023 and 2025 on the metro platform in her neighbourhood in Paris. The series blends documentary images with staged scenes in order to reconnect with the materiality of clothing. This project reflects the contrast between her life as a photographer of high-end fashion brands and her modest daily life in a working-class neighbourhood.
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Prix du Public Le FD100
Image: Maxime d’Angeac for Accor Orient Express Corinthian yacht, 2026.
DESIGN
Orient Express Corinthian
Prix du Public Espace Le FD100
In April, Le FRENCH DESIGN revealed the 100 winning interior architecture and design projects that showcase French creativity internationally. The time has come to announce Le FD100 People’s Choice Award. In the Space category, Maxime d’Angeac was recognised for his design of the 220-metre Orient Express Corinthian yacht. Billed as the "world's largest sailing yacht", the cruise ship was designed by Stirling Design International and built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique for hotel group Accor, which operates the famous Orient Express train. The vessel was entirely built in France, with contributions from around 2,000 artisans and ateliers helping to realise Maxime d’Angeac's vision.
Image: Maxime Lis, Cabinet CTA Le moduloir, h 80 x l 69 x L 39 cm, 2023. Photo: Gavin Macdonald.
Acquisition of Mobilier national, 2025.
DESIGN
Cabinet CTA
Prix du Public Objet Le FD100
In the Object category, Maxime Lis was recognised for the Cabinet CTA, part of the Mobilier national’s 2025 acquisition campaign. Crafted from solid aluminum with a mirror-polished finish, this cabinet reimagines the iconic travel trunk as a versatile, modular, and timeless piece. A double bottom and other details add depth to this minimalist design, evoking the concept of the secret cabinets of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Prix Art Écoconception 2026
Image: Wei Libo, Family Birds (Pipi & Taotao), 2025. Ceramic, wooden marquetry, wood, acrylic paint, metal chain, fabric. 47 x 47 x 50 cm, unique piece.
ART
Prix Art Écoconception
Created by Art of Change 21, an association founded and chaired by Alice Audouin, in partnership with the Palais de Tokyo, the Prix Art Écoconception is awarded each year to 12 contemporary artists working to reduce their environmental impact. This year's winners are: Yue Cheng, Disnovation.org, Lou Fauroux, Carla Gueye, Shuo Hao, Ilanit Illouz, Tarek Lakhrissi, Florian Mermin, Alexandre Nitzsche Cysne, Paola Siri Renard, Eugénie Touzé and Libo Wei. The patron of this fourth edition is Minerva Cuevas, a Mexican conceptual artist and leading figure in environmental activism.
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FRAME Awards 2026
Image: Aatismo, Haniyasu House, Kamakura, Japan, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of Aatismo.
DESIGN
Haniyasu House
Winner of the month for May
May’s winning project is Haniyasu House, Aatismo’s renovation of a 1967 residence in Kamakura, Japan. Submitted in the House category, the project transforms an ageing suburban home into a multi-generational living and working space for a family of architects and ceramicists. The design keeps the building’s 58-year-old timber structure in play, adding four earth-clad volumes that create private ‘huts’ around a shared central space. With soil from the site mixed with recycled ceramic waste and oxidizing metal powders, Haniyasu House turns what was already there into a new architectural surface, offering a grounded response to reuse and Japan’s vacant-house crisis.
Taishin Arts Awards
Image: TAI Body Theatre, qaqay—2025 Ocean Art Fun. Photo: LIN Yen-Shao.
ART
TAI Body Theatre
Grand Prize
TAI Body Theatre, the Indigenous-led performance collective founded in 2013 by Truku choreographer Watan Tusi, has been named Grand Prize winner at Taiwan’s leading annual ceremony honouring contemporary visual and performing arts, the Taishin Arts Awards. Their winning work, qaqay, takes its title from the Truku word for foot and papak, an onomatopoeic term evoking the sound of animal paws. Drawing on an origin myth in which a fallen giant’s body became the mountains and its feet scattered into islands, the performance was staged at the former Japanese-built tobacco factory in Hualien, where the collective is based.
Rimowa Design Prize 2026
Image: Nura sign language bracelet.
DESIGN
Nura
Rimowa Design Prize
A bracelet that translates sign language into speech has been named as the winner of the 2026 Rimowa Design Prize. Samuel Nagel and Paul Feiler were presented with the award at a ceremony at the Kulturforum in Berlin. Named Nura, the bracelet uses electromyography (EMG) sensors and facial analysis to translate sign language into spoken words, while speech is converted into readable text for deaf users.
