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.  

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

Come meet the future of know-how!

  • 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.

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Practical information

Thursday 5 February 2025: 10 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.

Friday, 6 February 2025: 10 - 6.30 p.m.

Hôtel de l'Industrie

4 Place Saint-Germain des Prés, 75006 Paris

Metro Line 6 - Station Saint Germain-des-Prés