Madd-Bordeaux

Pauline Deltour, who died at 38 on 5 September 2021 after ten years running a Paris studio that produced roughly 180 industrial-design objects, has finally been given the survey her catalogue deserved: the Pauline Deltour MADD Bordeaux retrospective is the first show to hold all of those objects in a single room. “Pauline Deltour, une apparente simplicité / An Apparent Simplicity” began on Wednesday 22 April 2026 with a 7 p.m. reception at 39 rue Bouffard and runs until 21 September 2026, the inaugural show of the partially reopened museum. It is co-curated by Bérengère Bussioz, Konstantin Grcic, Caroline Perret and Étienne Tornier, with exhibition design by Perret (CPWH) and Grcic assisted by Claire Pondard. The Pauline Deltour MADD Bordeaux survey is the first time her commissions for Alessi, Muji, Lexon, La Chance, Hem, Tolix, Discipline, Forge de Laguiole, Established & Sons, Cire Trudon, COR, JEM and Puiforcat have been gathered in one place, and the show is unusually graph-shaped: the curatorial premise is that an industrial designer’s life work is best read as a network of brands, artisans and dates rather than as a chronology of forms. ...

Konstantin Grcic’s scenography for “Pauline Deltour: An Apparent Simplicity”, the roughly 180-object survey of his former assistant that opened at MADD Bordeaux on 22 April 2026, is the seventh major exhibition the Munich-born industrial designer has co-curated or staged since 2009, and the first in which his role is to memorialise rather than to introduce. Co-curated with Bérengère Bussioz, Caroline Perret and Etienne Tornier, the show is one of the inaugural exhibitions of the partial reopening of the Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design at 39 rue Bouffard in Bordeaux, and the clearest demonstration to date that Konstantin Grcic exhibition design is a second body of work running parallel to his industrial output for Magis, Vitra, Plank and Mattiazzi. ...