During the opening days of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, Jil Sander hosted an exclusive event at its Venice Flagship in San Marco. Immersed in a bespoke installation, guests explore the design and craft behind the Jil Sander STONE Collection. Created and produced in collaboration with Venetian glass-makers Venini, and Milan and Rotterdam-based design studio Formafantasma, the collection of four vases - limited to nine pieces per shape, is an homage to the artistic heritage of the city and to an experimental approach. A progressing fusion of design, technology, and the handmade. In this episode, moderator Dan Thawley explores, together with Formafantasma and Silvia Damiani, President of Venini, the design and craft behind the collection.

During Milan Design Week 2025, Jil Sander hosted an exclusive event at its Milan Flagship in Via Verri 6. Immersed in a bespoke installation, guests explored the design and craft behind the new Olfactory Series 1 collection of fragrances. The Olfactory Series 1 fuses botany and technology in six minimalist, unisex formulas in which the olfactory marks of aldehydes cut across key natural ingredients, giving every unique fragrance shapes and volumes. Perfectly aligned with the quietly disruptive character of the collection, the bottle was conceived with design studio Formafantasma. The goal was to push an artisanal approach and feeling into an industrial process, fusing high craft and advanced production technologies, breaking the codes of traditional glassmaking. In this episode we tune in to hear from perfumer Julie Massé and design duo Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of FormaFantasma to explore the design and craft behind the collection Olfactory Series 1.

Moderated by Dan Thawley
ft. Adrian Prieto, Chris Dercon, Felix Burrichter and Willo Perron

In this fifth and final episode, speakers draw on the 1925 International Decorative and Industrial Modern Arts exhibition in Paris to discuss the significance of temporary architectures and their historical context. The conversation, which references the Wiener Werkstätte, Burrichter’s 2015 show at the Swiss Institute and Perron’s design for this year’s Matter and Shape pavilion, emphasises the ephemeral yet lasting influence of these structures on architecture and design.

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MATTER and SHAPE is a design salon that takes place in the Jardin de Tuileries on the occasion of Paris Fashion Week. The salon invites exhibitors, great and small, to present exceptional projects and products in an elevated setting, celebrating the culture of global design today. The Jil Sander Design Talks seek to catalyse intersectional conversations on and around design, engaging with the topic both conceptually and philosophically as well as exploring this from the scale of the individual object to that of the pavilion. 

Jil Sander Design Talks at MATTER and SHAPE 2025
Curated by Dan Thawley, powered by KoozArch 
Production: KoozArch Studio
Post-production: Khaled Nadim

Moderated by Ido Nahari
ft. Christoph Gantenbein, Julia Capp, Francesco Zorzi and Toshiya Hayashi

In this fourth episode, speakers explore the intersection of architecture and design with societal issues touching upon the impact of scarcity, the importance of historical continuity, and the role of beauty in design. Contrasting the importance of hierarchy with collective work, the speakers also debated the role of architects in creating sustainable and emotionally bonded spaces.

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MATTER and SHAPE is a design salon that takes place in the Jardin de Tuileries on the occasion of Paris Fashion Week. The salon invites exhibitors, great and small, to present exceptional projects and products in an elevated setting, celebrating the culture of global design today. The Jil Sander Design Talks seek to catalyse intersectional conversations on and around design, engaging with the topic both conceptually and philosophically as well as exploring this from the scale of the individual object to that of the pavilion. 

Jil Sander Design Talks at MATTER and SHAPE 2025
Curated by Dan Thawley, powered by KoozArch 
Production: KoozArch Studio
Post-production: Khaled Nadim

Moderated by Anna Carnick
ft. Jayden Ali, Meriem Chabani, Rozana Montiel and Sumayya Vally.

In this third episode, speakers explore the intersection of architecture and advocacy by sharing their own experience through projects as Counterspace’s Serpentine Pavilion in London, New South’s Mosque Zero in Paris, Rosanna Montiel's Fresnel Playground and Common Unity projects in Mexico as well as JA Projects’ Queen's Market project in East London. The panelists underscored the importance of listening, community engagement, and advocacy throughout their practice.

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MATTER and SHAPE is a design salon that takes place in the Jardin de Tuileries on the occasion of Paris Fashion Week. The salon invites exhibitors, great and small, to present exceptional projects and products in an elevated setting, celebrating the culture of global design today. The Jil Sander Design Talks seek to catalyse intersectional conversations on and around design, engaging with the topic both conceptually and philosophically as well as exploring this from the scale of the individual object to that of the pavilion. 

Jil Sander Design Talks at MATTER and SHAPE 2025
Curated by Dan Thawley, powered by KoozArch
Production: KoozArch Studio
Post-production: Khaled Nadim

Co-moderated by Dan Thawley and Seb Emina
ft. Dima Srouji, Jermaine Gallacher, Dan Thawley and Michela Pelizzari.

In this second episode, speakers share their own personal and professional experiences of the home. Starting with a reading of Emanuele Coccia's book "Philosophy of the Home" to explore the tension between ideal and reality, authenticity and flexibility, professional and private as well as the intergenerational stories embedded in space.

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MATTER and SHAPE is a design salon that takes place in the Jardin de Tuileries on the occasion of Paris Fashion Week. The salon invites exhibitors, great and small, to present exceptional projects and products in an elevated setting, celebrating the culture of global design today. The Jil Sander Design Talks seek to catalyse intersectional conversations on and around design, engaging with the topic both conceptually and philosophically as well as exploring this from the scale of the individual object to that of the pavilion. 

Jil Sander Design Talks at MATTER and SHAPE 2025
Curated by Dan Thawley, powered by KoozArch
Production: KoozArch Studio Post-production: Khaled Nadim

In the first episode, Matter and Shape curator and editor Dan Thawley sits down with KoozArch founder Federica Zambeletti to discuss the second edition of the MATTER and SHAPE design salon and the Jil Sander Design Talks emphasising the importance of cross-disciplinary conversations and the integration of tradition and innovation in design.

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MATTER and SHAPE is a design salon that takes place in the Jardin de Tuileries on the occasion of Paris Fashion Week. The salon invites exhibitors, great and small, to present exceptional projects and products in an elevated setting, celebrating the culture of global design today. The Jil Sander Design Talks seek to catalyse intersectional conversations on and around design, engaging with the topic both conceptually and philosophically as well as exploring this from the scale of the individual object to that of the pavilion. 

Jil Sander Design Talks at MATTER and SHAPE 2025
Curated by Dan Thawley, powered by KoozArch 
Production: KoozArch Studio
Post-production: Khaled Nadim