MiXTE Magazine

For MiXTE’s 30th anniversary, the studio designed and produced the scenography of an exhibition that opens three decades of the magazine’s archives to the public.

Exhibition / Production / Events
2026

The scenography starts from a simple idea: turning the exhibition into a life-size issue that visitors leaf through as they walk.

Each display wall is a double-sided page, recto verso: white on one side, black on the other, and the edge plays on this contrast too. Walking around them, visitors constantly move from one to the other. Like a page once more, each wall takes the length of what it carries: the wall bends to the content, not the other way round.

White display walls in the “Faire famille” section, hung with photographs
Backlit portrait on a white display wall, colour prints on a black wall behind

The plan is radical,
but it serves the idea first.

Black and white display walls in sequence, a portrait projected on the far wall

The display walls take the building at an angle: a simple move that changes how the whole space is read.

They are all turned 45° to the grid of the Hall. This shift draws the eye towards the heart of the exhibition: the pages unfold at an angle, and visitors turn them as they wander through.

Fig.1 [Existing building]
Fig.1 [Existing building]
Fig.2 [Building grid]
Fig.2 [Building grid]
Fig.3 [Thickening the grid]
Fig.3 [Thickening the grid]
Fig.4 [Rotating the grid by 45°]
Fig.4 [Rotating the grid by 45°]
Fig.5 [Thickening the grid]
Fig.5 [Thickening the grid]
Fig.6 [From plan to volume]
Fig.6 [From plan to volume]
Fig.7 [Secondary grid]
Fig.7 [Secondary grid]
Fig.8 [Composing the grid]
Fig.8 [Composing the grid]
Fig.9 [Adding lintels]
Fig.9 [Adding lintels]
Large “Escapism” portrait and the “Au fil des rencontres” wall

Visitors enter the exhibition at any page, each tracing their own path through it.

As in the magazine, no chronology is imposed. Five themes (Question de genre, Faire famille, Liberté Égalité Mixité, Au fil des rencontres, Des rêves d’utopie) shape the exhibition without setting the direction of the visit. Lintels mark these thresholds of reading between sections: visitors move freely, from one page to the next.

“Des rêves d’utopie” wall, with a backlit print seen past the edge of a black wall
MiXTE Magazine
MiXTE Magazine
MiXTE Magazine
MiXTE Magazine
MiXTE Magazine
MiXTE Magazine

  • Notes

    Since 1996, MiXTE has explored the links between fashion, culture, diversity and freedom. For its 30th anniversary, the magazine founded by Tiziana Humler-Ravera and Christian Ravera opens its archives to the public with the exhibition “MiXTE, 30 Years of Fashion and Freedom”. Curation and artistic direction: Andrea Griffon. Lighting: Aura Studio. Executive production: Patrick-Antoine Hanzo. The exhibition brings together photographs and videos by Paolo Roversi, Peter Lindbergh, David Sims, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Matthew Brookes, Toby Coulson, Andres Serrano, Viviane Sassen, Jean-Paul Goude and Karl Lagerfeld, among others.

  • Program

    Exhibition

  • Status
    Done
  • Client

    MiXTE Magazine

  • Materials

    Display walls, wood, metal, light

  • Date

    6–8 November 2026

  • Team

    Paf atelier

  • Location

    Hall des Maréchaux, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris

  • Photos

    Anthony Goujjane

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