Inflatable installations for Uchronia at Paul Bert Serpette

Which inflatable installations did Digital Inflatables make for Uchronia?

Monumental lit columns, a large human figure and sculpted fragments, spread over the 3 main entrances of the market.

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Inflatable Antiquity plays with classical columns and sculpted fragments, torsos, busts and limbs, that seem to step out of their bases. In the photos, an orange column with a classical capital carries a sculpted horse head, next to a draped statue.

Levitation Chairs suspends chairs from the Louis XIV style to the present day inside translucent inflatable columns: at the Paul Bert entrance, the red columns reveal pink chair silhouettes.

Oversized Domestic Objects scales vases and amphorae up into monumental totems. The complex shapes made design and fabrication a real technical challenge.

What was the Fête des Puces 2025 at Paul Bert Serpette?

Its opening night took place on 25 September 2025; the market had given Uchronia carte blanche for the art direction, on the theme of Le Paradoxe.

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Uchronia is a creative studio led by architect and designer Julien Sebban. For the festival, he picked pieces from the dealers and blended them into his own world of colours, shapes and volumes.

The Paul Bert market stands at 110 Rue des Rosiers, in Saint-Ouen. The scenography stayed in place until 6 October 2025.

The design magazine designboom covered the project, and its credits name Digital Inflatables for the inflatables.

How is a glowing inflatable column made for a scenography?

The column is cut from a light fabric, assembled piece by piece and inflated by a blower; lighting placed inside makes it glow at night.

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A translucent fabric lets light through and can show an object hung inside, like the chairs of Levitation Chairs. An opaque printed fabric suits capitals, busts and patterns better.

In a public space, each column is weighted or anchored to the ground. To compare workshops able to take on this kind of project, see the guide to choosing an inflatable structure manufacturer.