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Architecture and Design Annual Print Publication.
Form as Sustainable Act. Architecture as Cultural Statement.

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Conforma takes over the mezzanine of Espace Commines for Paris Design Week.

Six designers built the speakers, each one a piece of furniture with a voice: aluminium, plaster, steel, fabric, a shopping trolley rewired to play.

Soundsystem by:
Clement Chiffard @clement.chiffard
Eric Treillard @eric.treillard
Jean-Baptiste Durand @jeanbaptistedurand
Matthijs Koerts @matthijs_koerts
Radiant Studio @radiant__studio__
SGMS @sgms.studio

Seating by guest designer Tom Ducarouge, placed at the centre of the circle.

Music soundscapes curated by @the_asiya, @joni_djj , @kimberlaid, @kirkgaitskellkendrick, @lolsyproute, @loufauroux, @thillaye, @missing__ear, @omarjaimes_, @petlt, @vvutura, @zlatamech.

Creative Director:
Donald Gjoka @donaldgjoka

Editor-in-Chief:
Armando Bruno @arm_bruno

Art Direction:
Gaz Zeneli @gaz.zeneli.studio

Graphic Design:
Studio JAM @studio___jam

Design Editor:
Anna Lazzaron @annalazzaron

Scenography assistant @bykova.ova

Drinks offered by Bud and Flying Fish.

Take the seat in the middle and the room plays around you.

@ParisDesignWeek Factory
September 10 to 14, 10am to 7pm.
Espace Commines, mezzanine
17 Rue Commines, 75003 Paris. taken in Espace Commines by @conforma_magazine

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Conforma takes over the mezzanine of Espace Commines for Paris Design Week.

Six designers built the speakers, each one a piece of furniture with a voice: aluminium, plaster, steel, fabric, a shopping trolley rewired to play.

Soundsystem by:
Clement Chiffard @clement.chiffard
Eric Treillard @eric.treillard
Jean-Baptiste Durand @jeanbaptistedurand
Matthijs Koerts @matthijs_koerts
Radiant Studio @radiant__studio__
SGMS @sgms.studio

Seating by guest designer Tom Ducarouge, placed at the centre of the circle.

Music soundscapes curated by @the_asiya, @joni_djj , @kimberlaid, @kirkgaitskellkendrick, @lolsyproute, @loufauroux, @thillaye, @missing__ear, @omarjaimes_, @petlt, @vvutura, @zlatamech.

Creative Director:
Donald Gjoka @donaldgjoka

Editor-in-Chief:
Armando Bruno @arm_bruno

Art Direction:
Gaz Zeneli @gaz.zeneli.studio

Graphic Design:
Studio JAM @studio___jam

Design Editor:
Anna Lazzaron @annalazzaron

Scenography assistant @bykova.ova

Drinks offered by Bud and Flying Fish.

Take the seat in the middle and the room plays around you.

@ParisDesignWeek Factory
September 10 to 14, 10am to 7pm.
Espace Commines, mezzanine
17 Rue Commines, 75003 Paris. taken in Espace Commines by @conforma_magazine

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After ten years of navigating the intense world of the architectural practice OMA, one might expect a certain weariness to have set into Giulio Margheri, however, what emerges is a portrait of endless curiosity.

During the conversation with Anna Lazzaron, Giulio reflects on his experience on the fast edge of architecture, as his job often lies in combining the slow pace of his profession with breakneck metabolism of fashion.

Yet, beneath discussions about architecture’s intersections with ephemerality, curation, and cinematography, lies the challenge of sustaining a practice built on constant reinvention.

As the building typologies that once defined OMA evolve from their landscape, the office faces the same question confronting the entire profession: where can architecture exist now, and what forms might it take?

Giulio Margheri @giuliomargheri interviewed by Anna Lazzaron @annalazzaron

@oma.eu interview for Conforma. Keep reading the article in print, in the current volume.

Copies are available online and at selected stockists.

Creative Director:
Donald Gjoka @donaldgjoka

Editor-in-Chief:
Armando Bruno @arm_bruno

Art Direction:
Gaz Zeneli @gaz.zeneli.studio

Graphic Design:
Studio JAM @studio___jam

Design Editor:
Anna Lazzaron @annalazzaron taken in Fondazione Prada by @conforma_magazine

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Tom Ducarouge has built his design practice on principles that run counter to commercial industry norms: stay close to the material, stay close to the making.

The designer manufactures most of his work locally in Paris, maintaining the kind of hands-on relationship with his designs that has become increasingly rare today.

His approach is grounded in storytelling, where objects become vessels for narratives.

Recent projects showcase his range: from producing 800 mirrored steel stools for Gucci in just four weeks, to a heat-reactive table for On Running that shifts color with temperature changes.

More in ISSUE 01 of Conforma.

Featured: @tomducarouge

Project: Virtuosity Tables, 2025 - designed by @charlotte.say

Photography: @mathildehiley

Interview by: @annalazzaron by @conforma_magazine

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Jorge Penadés runs his design practice like a laboratory, testing and rethinking materials, form, and process at every turn. His work is driven by curiosity, a real respect for existing knowledge, and a quiet insistence on not repeating what’s already been done.

Every project begins with close attention to materials: where they come from, how they age, and the cultural and environmental systems they belong to. Growing up in a post-crisis Mediterranean context gave him an instinct for resourcefulness and experimentation that still runs through his practice today.

Featuring @jorgepenades

Title: LMNUV!

Photos @laura_san_segundo

Glass manufacturer @acristalia_official

Interview by Benedetta Medas by @conforma_magazine

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Alongside his work in object design, Marcus-Bello also works in art and creative direction, building visual worlds with a quiet precision shaped by long-term thinking rather than immediate visibility.

Across these fields, his practice suggests that design’s role is less about telling stories and more about opening them, creating the space for conversations, recognition, and cultural clarity.

Featuring: @nmbello1
Project: Listening room in collaboration with Rodrigo amarante , M2 shelf, 2022
Photo: @pauline_chardin

Interview by Benedetta Medas by @conforma_magazine

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Jorge Penadés treats design like a laboratory, where materials, form, and process are constantly tested and rethought. His practice is driven by curiosity, a deep respect for existing knowledge, and a quiet refusal to repeat what’s been done before.

Each project starts with close material exploration. Where things come from, how they age, and the cultural and environmental systems they sit within. Growing up in a post-crisis Mediterranean context shaped his instinct for resourcefulness and experimentation.

Making, for him, is inseparable from thinking.

Featuring @jorgepenades

Title: Piscis for @bdbarcelonadesign

Photos @geraymena

Interview by Benedetta Medas by @conforma_magazine

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In the work of Nifemi Marcus-Bello, design grows out of conversations between materials and place, inherited knowledge and contemporary urgencies, and the object itself and the systems behind it.

Based in Lagos, shaped by a Pan-African upbringing and European training, he moves through these intersections sensitively, building a practice that feels grounded but always looking forward.

His projects rarely start with answers, but with questions, sought from everyday life, production processes, or the subtle strains of context.

He reads materials not just for what they can do, but for what they mean, culturally and socially.

Featuring: @nmbello1

Project: Oríkì (Act I): Friction Ridge, Friction Ridge Bench, 2023.

Interview by Benedetta Medas by @conforma_magazine

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Form as sustainable act. Architecture as cultural statement.

These are the pages where the volume slows down. The interviews in Issue 1 spend long enough with each contributor to ask what their work actually costs the world, and what it gives back.

Anne Holtrop on material as memory. Boonserm Premthada on earth and labor as the same subject.

Kengo Kuma on structures that age rather than perform. MVRDV and OMA/AMO on form as a position, not a style.

Nifemi Marcus Bello on objects made from what a place already has. Jorge Penades and Wendy Andreu on waste as raw material rather than failure.

None of these conversations treat sustainability as a closing statement. It runs through the questions themselves, in how something is made, what it takes, what it leaves behind.

Printed once a year. Built to be kept. A slow object in a fast feed.

ISSUE 1 contributors:
Anne Holtrop
Boonserm Premthada
Chris Fusaro
Jorge Penades
Kengo Kuma
Lllab
Moroso
MVRDV
Nifemi Marcus Bello
OMA / AMO
SuperSedia
Tom Ducarouge
Wendy Andreu

Creative Director: Donald Gjoka @donaldgjoka
Editor-in-Chief: Armando Bruno @arm_bruno
Art Direction: Gaz Zeneli @gaz.zeneli.studio
Graphic Design: Studio JAM @studio___jam
Design Editor: Anna Lazzaron @annalazzaron by @conforma_magazine

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In an era defined by AI and algorithmic processes, Kengo Kuma calls for a return to the body and the senses. Texture, scent, sound, and the slow aging of materials become central to how architecture is experienced and understood.

His projects aim to restore emotional depth, reconnecting people to place, climate, and each other. For Kengo Kuma, architecture is not a fixed object but a living organism: it grows, weathers, and matures over time, finding harmony with its environment.

Featured: @kkaa_official
Project: Steel House
Photos: mitsumasa Fujitsuka

Interview by Daniele Menichini @d_menichini by @conforma_magazine

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Between artistic experimentation and industrial rigor, Chris Fusaro’s work occupies a liminal space where process and form are in constant dialogue. With a background first in industrial design and then in sculpture, his career reflects a fertile connection between technical expertise and free exploration.

Read more in ISSUE 01 of Conforma.

Featured @chrisfusaro

Project - Genio table, 2025.
Stainless steel tubing, bronze tempered glass, 73 x 83 x 194 cm.

Photo @alessiokeilty

Interview @albertodapporto by @conforma_magazine

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@3daysofdesign placed craft and innovation firmly within the same conversation as sustainability. Natural materials and circular thinking ran through the presentations, central to how the work was made, understood, and discussed.

@ukurant_ puts international design talent and natural materials in dialogue.

@stellarworks_official presents two environments built on atmosphere, materiality and human scale.

The @iittala Aalto 90 Pavilion let visitors walk through the curves of the Aalto vase at architectural scale.

Playroom opened with a lunch, bringing @duratdesign and @johanna_gullichsen_official into joyful and material-led collaboration.

Latitude gathers emerging Australian designers, including @frenchjessie’s patented bio-material, in collaboration with @other_matter.

@apocableisseymiyake_official presents its plissé technique as performance: heat applied to pleating.

Objects of Desire, curated by @birgitteduemadsen, presents work defined by material awareness and production rigor.

Fat Powder Fruit Sugar. Curated by @noura_residency, installation by Imogen Kwok with Marlot Baus and Köge sets a table between making and eating.

@hjemstavn_dk hosted a dinner built around their exceptional wood and craftsmanship, setting both the table and the tone.

@deoron present their curated lineup of international designers working at the edge of contemporary practice.

@vipp and @mesura.eu built a large yellow conversation pit at Vipp Campus, gathering people into shared space.

Tableau and Secolo’s exhibition and collaboration centers on the Trace sofa, built for connection and community.

9 designers, 1 circular material. @project.materia x Mater gives new objects a shared material foundation.

@fanzilab presents “Welcome. Slow Down.”, a glass pavilion and a gallery where designers meet wood with metal, old with new.

@layered_official meets @massproductions, where rotating wool pillars and loom recordings meet industrial rationalism.

From stone tools to machinery, @vaerktoej traces how the instruments designers choose leave a lasting imprint on form, material and idea.

@alpi_wood and @gamfratesi explore decorative surfaces made from reconstituted wood. by @conforma_magazine

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