Arts • Craft • Sciences • Design

February 5 & 6, 2026 - Hôtel de l'Industrie - Paris

The first trade show dedicated to innovative savoir-faire

PROTOTYPE aims to be a project accelerator, promoting strategic encounters between creators, companies, and investors.

Materials, uses, forms, techniques: the prototypes on display embody the craft of tomorrow, where expertise and innovation come together to create impactful and sustainable solutions.

Une première édition réussie !

Over the course of several days, PROTOTYPE brought together creators, researchers, designers, artisans, partners, and visitors around a shared belief: prototypes are essential tools for imagining and building the models of tomorrow.
Find the best of the 2026 edition on this website, and see you soon for the next chapter in this collective adventure!

Our exhibitors tell the PROTOTYPE experience: back in images over 2 days of emulation (in French).

5 reasons to participate in PROTOTYPE

1. Bringing together a transdisciplinary and committed community

2. Laying the foundations for responsible innovation at the service of the greatest number

3. Encourage sustainable and adaptable alternative economic models

4. Reconciling hand and machine, slowness and speed, legacy and future

5. Exploring new, sensitive, aesthetic, timeless forms

Partners

Manufactures nationales
A unique public hub for the excellence of crafts and decorative arts.
Réseau Excellence EPV
Réseau Excellence is a regional network of companies awarded the “Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant” (EPV) label.
Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale
Founded in 1801, the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry played a key role in the French economic development in the 19th century and continues today to fulfill its mission.