École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL

Since 1766, the School of artists and designers of active decoration. Creating beauty in utility in response to the challenges of our time.
Now multi-sited, École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL aims to fully realize its national mission of reinventing the arts of living and dwelling. From its historic address on rue d'Ulm, where 800 students are trained each year in ten fields of the arts and cultural industries, to the various living environments located throughout France and its overseas territories, where it deploys programs that address local issues.
A higher education institution under the Ministry of Culture, a component of PSL University and leader of the Paris region campus of excellence "Fashion, Craft Professions and Design," the School trains a new generation of creators capable of reconfiguring a setting of common good.

École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL presents AFTER Project Room. A showcase label for creators recently graduated from the School, AFTER explores for SIGNATURES the transition from diploma to limited edition. Printed image on textile or paper, edited object, photography, artist editions, screen prints and hybrid forms: so many practices that reflect a generation that invests in publishing as a space for creation, experimentation and distribution in its own right. Bringing together some twenty young artists and designers who graduated between 2023 and 2026, it reveals an emerging scene trained within its fields of creation - textile and material design, object design, garment design, printed image, photography, animation, interior architecture, graphic design, scenography.