Autumn in Paris
Autumn is La Rentrée. Paris opens up again.
Paris Design Week starts the season in September, bringing the world’s design community to this magical city.
October brings art week, with Art Basel Paris and Asia Now bringing galleries, artists and collectors back into the centre of the capital.
The theatres return to their autumn rhythm with new productions, plays and musicals. The whole city is open again, ready to welcome you.
This is an especially rewarding time to come to Paris. The cultural calendar is full, but the city still leaves room for slower discoveries.
Visit a gallery in your own time, discover a courtyard glimpsed through an open door, or notice the details of a place that only reveal themselves when you take the time to look properly.
Re-Situ specialises in creating private, tailor-made visits for travellers who want to discover and experience these connections.
Every route is designed around your interests, connecting you to art, architecture, craftsmanship and the places where an undiscovered Paris reveals itself especially for you.
Image courtesy of Paris Design Week.
French and Korean Design at the Place de la Concorde
Hanjimania at the Hôtel de la Marine
September 10 to 27, 2026 · Hôtel de la Marine
Inside the state rooms, the loggia and, for the first time, the private apartments, Hanjimania brings French designers and Korean master craftsmen together around hanji, a traditional paper made from mulberry fibres.
During Design Week, the Hôtel de la Marine, once the Crown’s furniture repository, becomes a treasure trove of craft, bringing ancient materials into contemporary exploration, all within a building filled with history and stories.
Image courtesy of Paris Design Week.
Stained Glass, Wood, Textiles and Terracotta Forms
Modern craft in ancient materials at the Musée Bourdelle
September 8 to 27, 2026 · Paris XV
Anthony Guerrée, a contemporary furniture designer whose work is held in the French National Collection and who trained under Andrée Putman, responds to the lines and curves of Bourdelle’s sculptures through stained glass, wood, textiles and terracotta.
His installations move through the museum’s collections, studios and garden, allowing contemporary design to enter this singular place without overpowering it.
The Musée Bourdelle preserves the studios where Antoine Bourdelle worked for more than forty years.
Bourdelle was also Auguste Rodin’s studio assistant.
Anthony Guerrée, Contrepoint, Musée Bourdelle.
© Alexandre Onimus.
Design in an Historic Maison in the Heart of the Marais
The garden as architecture
Outdoor sculpture · Hôtel de Soubise
At the Hôtel de Soubise, Johanna de Clisson, an accomplished ceramicist and sculptor, places white stoneware sculptures within the formal layout and grounds of the French garden.
Elegant columns, clipped boxwood and classical architecture weave together to create a contemporary yet classical composition.
This is Paris Design Week outside the walls, or hors les murs as we say in Paris, at its most compelling.
The historic setting of the maison remains itself, but what we experience within its walls changes.
The garden becomes a landscape of forms, and a loved and familiar building begins to speak with a different sense of purpose and wonder.
Johanna de Clisson, Sculpture / Paysage, Hôtel de Soubise
Image courtesy of Paris Design Week.
Brass, a place to spend time in
131 boulevard Saint-Germain · Paris VI
A fitting place to end a design-focused walk through Paris is Brass, the brasserie designed by Dorothée Meilichzon.
An award-winning French interior architect and designer working with clients across the world, she was named Maison&Objet’s Créateur de l’année in 2015 and Interior Designer of the Year at the Dezeen Awards in 2024.
Her speciality is creating breathtaking interiors that establish the mood of a place before you even sit down.
Mosaic, brass, caramel-coloured woodwork, velvet, a red piano and a gramophone give the two rooms a rhythm and flow that encourage you to stay and enjoy.
Come for the food and drink, and stay to see how the room and décor change the experience.
A truly Parisian experience.
Paris is a city that celebrates and lives in and with design.
A city to experience from an insider’s perspective.
If you would like to explore this city, to understand and see more of what makes Paris truly Paris, Re-Situ can design a private visit around the places, spaces, designers and artists that most interest you.
