London designer Ilse Crawford will create a hub space for Maison&Objet's Paris fair in September after being awarded the title of Designer of the Year.
In a first for a Maison&Objet Designer of the Year, Crawford will create and style the space known as the Designers' Studio, which functions as a central meeting point during the fair in Paris.
Designers of the Year ? of which there are four, corresponding to Maison&Objet's four international trade fairs ? usually create installations or exhibitions to be displayed in the event venues.
Aesop store interior by Studioilse in Mayfair, London
Crawford, the founder of Studioilse, is planning a serene, multipurpose venue that is both flat-packed and modular, so that the structure can be disassembled and reused again. Visitors to Maison&Objet's Designers' Studio in September will find spaces designed to help them "relax, collapse, recharge, recap, reconnect, regroup and refresh".

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"The space is divided up into zones where families of furniture and lighting have been carefully grouped to encourage and support these activities," Crawford told Dezeen.
Crawford created the Matbaren restaurant interior at Grand Hotel Stockholm in Sweden in 2007
Plants and natural materials will be selected with the aim of creating a restful environment.
Crawford's other main concern in designing a pop-up venue ...