merveilles 
du design

The MAMC+ collection of design objects includes 416 chairs and armchairs, as well as sofas, benches, poufs, stools and rocking chairs. The wealth of vocabulary created to describe all these objects for sitting, lying down or curling up testifies to the creativity in form that designers have demonstrated for over a century. The use of new materials (bamboo, plastic, steel, etc.) and innovative techniques (industrial machining, plastics, etc.) from the second half of the 20th century onwards bears witness to this constant inventiveness.

To coincide with the 13th International Design Biennial and its theme, MAMC+ has selected five of these 416 seated works and is unveiling them to the public in five towns and cities across the metropolitan area, in close proximity to local residents. The museum is thus continuing its off-site initiative begun in 2024 with the "Seven Wonders of the MAMC+", i.e. the installation of seven emblematic works from the collection in seven towns in the metropolitan area, one after the other for seven months.

This year, the MAMC+ is inviting the public to question the relationship between aesthetics and technology through a design object rooted in everyday life, the chair, between the renewed use of traditional materials, innovation made possible by composite and synthetic materials, and current recycling techniques, echoing the Resource(s) theme of the Biennial.