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The Paris designer's collaboration with Akeem Smith puts flatware, candlesticks, and serving pieces in the same frame as runway.
Marie Valognes designed a silver service. Not a capsule, not a handbag collab. Flatware, candlesticks, serving pieces, photographed by Akeem Smith for AnOther SS26.
Valognes runs a small Paris studio known for tailoring and proportion. The move to tableware isn't random. The same hand that cuts a lapel can size a spoon. The images show pieces laid flat, shot overhead, no styling excess. A fork, a knife, a ladle. The forms are clean, handles weighted, nothing precious.
Smith's photography does the work. He treats the silver like garments on a rack. Each piece gets space, no clutter. The light is even, the shadows minimal. It reads like a lookbook for objects that don't walk.
This is the third designer-to-object pivot this season. Lemaire did ceramics last fall. The Row has been doing homeware for two years. The pattern is clear: designers who built reputations on wearables are now making things you hold, not wear. The logic holds. If you trust someone's eye for a coat, you might trust their eye for a candlestick.
The pieces don't have release dates yet. AnOther ran them as editorial, no retail hook. Valognes' studio site lists no product page. For now, it's a signal. A designer saying the table is worth the same attention as the body.
The silver sits there, polished, waiting for someone to pick it up.
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