Maison & Objet 2010

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Last weekend, contributing blogger Scott Newlin attended Maison & Objet, a Parisian fair featuring objects that range from furniture to gifts to home decor. Seemingly bigger and bigger each year, Maison is a precursor to the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, and offers the first look at many soon-to-be released designs. Here Newlin shares some of his favorite pieces from the showroom floor.

— Scott Newlin

The French love their young talent, and they dedicated a lot of the fair booths to them. Here, Mathieu Lehanneur's Delicious, Storage Boxes for Tools Galerie are displayed. Inspired by the stamped-metal facades of a New York City hot dog vendor's cart, these brilliantly colored storage boxes are very dynamic. The form is geometric, but the texture gives the objects an incredible amount of depth.

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