The world’s leading trade show for home fashion trends, Maison&Objet is holding its autumn exhibition. One of this year’s central themes is a deep-lying social trend: singularity. Mass uniformity no longer meets unanimous approval.

While it is true that social networks, clubs and other forms of community have never been so fashionable, they have created a need for recognition which has become a worldwide groundswell. Individualism no longer exists, and borders are disappearing, but faced with our vast connected world, the individual does not keep quiet. On the contrary, he loudly proclaims his desire to live and to stand out.

Maison&Objet opens its doors to those who coax out the singular, love the particular, pamper the eccentric, and cultivate the original. M&O welcomes a world of artists.