WHAT DEFINES CRAFT - métiers d'art?

Tableware - jewellery and fashion accessories - lighting - furniture and wall decorations - sculptures and collectibles: through these themed areas of the CRAFT, fine craft professionals reveal exceptional, rare or unique, lasting and handcraft pieces.

Discover the work of these artists of the matter. Genuine research and innovation laboratories, workshops are often behind the development of new manufacturing processes at the forefront of industrial activities. Their works bear the signature of a creator. Bearing values and representing the aspirations of the society, fine craft professionals echo with the evolution of consumption patterns, inviting to more personal, more responsible and respectful choices regarding environment and territories, far from standardised or industrial productions. Wood, clay, silk, tulle, coal, gold, metal, silicon, glass and paper… a plethora of materials tamed by these creators and their singular worlds.

THE CRAFT SECTOR, DEDICATING A SPACE TO EMBLEMATIC AWARDS

The Rising Talent Awards are evolving to shed light on fine crafts: SAFI, organiser of Maison&Objet*, and Ateliers d'Art de France have worked together to create this new category to meet the expectations of buyers and their appetite for the attractive values of the crafts: creative ability, creation of unique pieces or small series in the fine craft workshop, with a concern for quality and durability. 

At each edition of MAISON&OBJET*, this new international winner of the Rising Talent Awards CRAFT will exhibit on the CRAFT TALENTS pavilion in the heart of Hall 5A, in the CRAFT sector, dedicated to fine crafts from all over the world. He will present his unique pieces on his stand alongside another awarded creator, selected by experts to distinguish a fine craft creator based in France, thanks to the competitions organised by the fine craft federation: the Ateliers d'Art de France Competition and the Young Creative Craftsworker’s Award.

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*Maison&Objet, organised by SAFI, an Ateliers d’Art de France subsidiary, and RX France