From April 9, 2026, at Art Paris 2026, Diana Ghandour marks a decisive moment in her trajectory with the unveiling of her first furniture collection. Presented within the French Design Art Edition sector at the Grand Palais, the collection signals a shift in scale and authorship. For a designer whose work has long been embedded in interiors, this move toward autonomous objects carries both conceptual and symbolic weight.
Based in Beirut and trained in Belgium, Ghandour has built a practice defined by a rigorous engagement with colour, material, and spatial composition. Her interiors operate as cohesive environments, where every element participates in a larger architectural language. With this debut collection, that language is distilled. Forms detach from the interior to become objects in their own right, while retaining an intrinsic relationship to space. “The furniture is for me the natural continuation of interior architecture. It structures space as much as it inhabits it,” she notes.
Pieces such as the Banc Linéa, the Chaise Ovule, the Console Le Pilier, and the Table basse L’Anneau Liquide read as fragments of a broader architectural vocabulary. Volumes are rounded, bases grounded, edges softened by the gesture of the hand. Plaster, stone, and marble are handled with a controlled sensitivity, creating a tension between density and lightness. Some works evoke contemporary relics, others suggest archaic presences, yet all share a tactile immediacy that anchors them firmly in the physical experience of space.
The presentation also unfolds as a dialogue between Lebanon and France, two geographies that have shaped Ghandour’s practice. Within the collection, selected pieces by French designer Frédéric Imbert are integrated into the scenography, not as co authored works but as part of a shared formal conversation grounded in craftsmanship and material integrity.
What emerges is a body of work that moves beyond function toward presence. These are not simply pieces of furniture. They are spatial propositions, carrying within them the memory of interiors while asserting a new autonomy. In Paris, within one of the most significant platforms for collectible design, Diana Ghandour establishes a language.
