VIE is a place where art, fashion, architecture and design converge. Located in the heart of Paris, VIE is a gallery and studio workspace partnering with trailblazers, thinkers, artists, and creatives to curate experiences and foster these diverse networks to gather and multiply.
VIE is where people, ideas, and creativity collide. It’s a place for those who seek more from life—more connection, expression and meaning.
VIE Projects and Studio span 320 m², with the gallery space on Boulevard Beaumarchais covering 80 m², which can be expanded to 160 m² along rue des Tournelles, stretching across an entire Parisian city block. An additional 160 m² is dedicated to a workspace fostering experimentation across all creative disciplines. Together, these two spaces represent the dual facets of a singular vision devoted to the arts and innovation.
VIE is an initiative of Michelle Lu, founder of media platform Semaine, and architect Julien De Smedt.
A hand-knotted rug from the VIBRATIONS line invites collective rest, the AURORA system reveals its recycled curves through accumulations, and the new VEGA 81 program explores an unexpected material — crushed scallop shells — while continuing the duo’s obsession with the oval form.
"We see ovals everywhere."
Here, objects transform into modules, seat-rugs become inhabitable structures, and furniture is invented through assembly, like a construction game. A play of shapes composing a whole.
Designed by Alexis Martial and Adrien Caillaudaud, co-founders of the studio, this space draws from their retro-futurist DNA, inspired by the playgrounds of the 1970s and the intuitive pop imagination of 1990s Japan. The exhibition celebrates a free way of inhabiting space and invites visitors to project themselves into new uses, between conceptual design and instinctive adolescence.
Exhibition images by Fionn O'Toole.
Product images by Lucio Ubbens.
