The home has become a place of hybrid well-being, somewhere between private and professional life, and a reassuring, almost medicinal refuge from a complex world. One example is the explosion in sensory experiences that harmonise the energies of the home. But what are we really referring to? What energies are we talking about, whether benevolent or polluting, and what effect do these harmonization practices have?
To find out more about what's going on around us and to understand our global indoor environment, we spoke to three experts in geobiology, holistic decoration and invisible architecture.
"The energy of certain people will activate the memories present in certain places, which can manifest themselves in the form of sensations, emotions, but also visions or sounds... like an automatic projector that is triggered under certain conditions".
Igor Bézard
President of the French academy of professional geobiology
OFFSCREEN 2025 festival leaves private palaces to invest the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, a jewel of religious architecture that has long remained confidential.
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"Formerly a hospice for "deviant" women and then the cradle of modern psychiatry with Pinel, Esquirol and Charcot, the chapel carries within it a whole history of the body, control and liberation... A place of care, which has become a place of vision."
Fruits and vegetables are back in vogue in the art of the table. This is evidenced by the silver artichoke from the Italian silversmith house Buccellati, or Monoprix and one of its current collaborations with the Scottish illustrator Vicki Murdoch.
We then interviewed Fanny Parise, our anthropologist expert in new trends, to better understand how food design reflects society.
The latest creation from Italian silversmith Buccellati, founded in 1919, this silver artichoke celebrates both tableware and nature. So, why the artichoke?
“With a pronounced taste for bringing heritage archives and fragments of history back to light, Lucille will exhibit her decorative art next April in Labo during Milan design week!”
Architecture moves us. And that's a fact. To better define this emotional power, we talked to Atelier Caracas, the Venezuelan duo of architects and designers whose experimental creations, inspired by pop culture, playfully disrupt the psychological conformity of this art form.
THE GUIDE
"Some fifty addresses dedicated to sport and its history, to celebrate the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, such as, for example, an introduction to jeu de paume, the ancestor of tennis that disappeared from France and the world's first racket sport, at the Château de Fontainebleau!"
THE REGENERATION
"Drawing inspiration from nature is part of pop culture. Leonardo da Vinci with his ornithopter inspired by bird flight or George de Mestral with Velcro in 1948 are part of popular culture."
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
"As Claude Lévi-Strauss pointed out in his work, food is more than a biological necessity; it conveys profound cultural values. Here, by freezing fruits and vegetables in an artistic setting, we recreate a spiritual relationship with food, as offerings and rituals once did."
