French design studio Paf atelier makes interior architecture that places you inside an art object. For the 2022 iteration of Collectible Fair, Paf presented custom-made objects representative of its design process. The designs are enveloped in electric orange blinds that function as a backlit canvas for the stainless-steel forms to reflect. Each piece is meant to be deprogrammed and reprogrammed continuously, changing function until, eventually, dismantled.

For First Class 2023, a surrealist’s paradise erupted in Paf’s pavilion located in the Jardin de Tuileries in Paris. Tarpaulins printed with dreamlike AI-generated images and patterns disrupted viewers’ sense of space and continuity, accented with neon lights along a central “spine.” The design was inspired by the typology of the tent itself and the basic materials that make the material a 3D envelope: the tarpaulin, the rope, and the metal frame. The result blurs the lines as to what it means to make an environment.

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