Take One Just In Case: Trinkets Drawn from the Bazaar

The bazaar is the only shop where we buy objects without looking at them. That is the starting point of the exhibition.

The principle

A teeming, generous array of trinkets, the word is theirs, and it fits. Designers start from the archetypes of anonymous objects, the ones with neither author nor date: the clip, the bucket, the hanger, the cup. They turn them into something else. The gesture is to make visible a form no one looks at any more, precisely because it is everywhere.

Why this title

"Take One Just In Case": you take one, just in case. The title describes a situation where nothing seems necessary, yet everything might come in handy and stays affordable. For the organisers, it is the defining moment of the places we call bazaars: the hand closing on an object you had no need for a second earlier.

What you see in the photos

On the long table, the checked-canvas laundry basket is by Anna McAllister. Against the wall by the entrance, the toilet paper holder is by Tim Teven, the belts and pink key box by Lewis Duckworth, and the yellow doormat that says welcome by LS Gomma. The power strip mounted on an electric train is by Jovien Panné. The shoehorns and brush, in copper-toned anodised aluminium, are by Flora Lechner.

Each object starts from a shape everyone recognises and shifts it just enough to make us finally look. Photographs by Pierre Castignola.

The venue

Take One Just In Case was held at 10 rue Tesson, 75010 Paris, during Paris Design Week 2026. The exhibition is over; the designers carry on.

The Beyit gesture: photograph a piece and scan it. The tool tells you who edits it, at what price, and what else exists around it.