Mathieu Lehanneur

For this multidisciplinary and open-minded designer, 2024 promises to be a great year. Crowned Designer of the Year by the Maison&Objet trade fair, this iconoclast has also designed the future Olympic torch made of 100% recycled steel, as well as the Paralympic torch. An impressive track record for this personality whose creations mostly focus on well-being and better living. Some of them are even exhibited in museums such as the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the MoMA in New York. Passionate about science and nature, this leading figure in design prefers to imagine magical objects rather than mythical ones. Like Andréa, his revolutionary air purifier, or Autonomy, an autonomous and futuristic habitat presented at the latest edition of the trade fair to escape the noise and density of the city and rethink the way we live by interacting with our environment. In his Factory, located in Ivry-sur-Seine, he is already thinking about his next furniture collections which he will launch in self-publishing and the opening of his showroom in New York next spring.