Design Moment: Our 6 Obsessions for a Beautiful Start to the Season
BY MADELEINE VOISIN
L’Instant Design is back, bringing together the latest décor trends, must-have objects, new exhibitions, and captivating bedside reads. On the agenda: a stroll through a modernist Brussels, two icons of the sixties, and some evocative paintings. What if the start of the school year was about design rather than schoolbags? From subversive chairs to modernist villas and striking reissues, L’Instant Design gathers six obsessions to kick off September in style.
Reissue squared
Dialogue, the seat designed by André Monpoix, reissued by Source Édition and originally launched in 1967, is a reminder that postwar France knew how to combine solid wood and pure lines with as much boldness as its Italian neighbors. While Bellini sought the fluidity of a system, Monpoix pursued the balance between traditional materials and ultra-modern lines: two parallel approaches, two timeless answers to the same question—how to sit within one’s era without ever being confined by it.
