October 06, 2025
The Alliance will take part in Les Rendez-vous de la Matière, held for the first time at the Carreau du Temple in Paris. This fair brings together architects, designers, and specifiers to explore a carefully curated selection of innovative materials for architecture and interior design.
For this debut edition, the Alliance will showcases on its booth the latest solutions in european flax-linen and hemp developed by its members and their partners. Recognised as fibres of the future, flax-linen and hemp combine technical performance and aesthetic appeal, opening the way to a new generation of high-performance, bio-based materials designed to meet the challenges of contemporary design and architecture.
Steeped in history yet resolutely modern, european flax-linen and hemp are finding new applications in the home, in design, and in large-scale architecture.
In 2025, flax-linen has become indispensable to the world of interiors – a material where comfort, durability, and style come together.
From living rooms to bedrooms, linen textiles balance craftsmanship with contemporary design. Their inherent qualities – freshness, comfort, resilience – are reimagined through renewed creativity:
These examples highlight how linen shapes today’s home as a sanctuary – a natural material that appeals as much to the senses as to the eye.
Beyond its role in textiles (decoration, household linen, furniture) and thermal applications (non-wovens for insulation), flax-linen is emerging as a construction material. With excellent mechanical properties, high strength, and lightness, it is increasingly used in composites, embraced by architects and engineers seeking low-impact alternatives to conventional raw materials.
Recent landmark projects involving Alliance members include:
For the first time, a hybrid timber and flax-fibre load-bearing structure was created. Its roof integrates 20 flax-fibre elements produced using an innovative filament winding process. The outcome: a permanent exhibition space that is lightweight, durable, and formally expressive.
Partners: Terre de Lin Technique (supplier of flax rovings), HA-CO Carbon (fabricator of fibre components), and the University of Stuttgart research institutes.
French company Safilin (Alliance member) supplied flax rovings for an experimental structure reinforced with a partially bio-based resin. Produced using the same filament winding process, the project showcases the dialogue between traditional flax expertise and cutting-edge technology.
TEMCA manufactured 880 sun-shading panels incorporating ampliTex™ by Bcomp (Alliance member). Designed by architects Rudy Ricciotti and Roland Carta, these panels bring an organic aesthetic while reducing the building’s energy use and providing shade. Over 8,000 m² of flax were integrated with a fire-retardant resin and fibreglass reinforcement – proof of flax-linen’s structural and aesthetic potential.
These projects demonstrate how flax-linen meets the demands of contemporary construction:
Alongside flax-linen, hemp is also proving to be a high-performance bio-based material. Its applications in construction are diverse:
Hemp thus positions itself as an high-performing alternative for building professionals.
From flooring to ceilings, furniture to textiles, european flax-linen and hemp provide creative, durable, and stylish options to reinvent tomorrow’s living spaces.
At Les Rendez-vous de la Matière, the Alliance will unveil a diverse range of innovative materials meeting the technical and aesthetic demands of design and interior architecture.
Parmi les nouveautés à découvrir :
In the same spirit, Biofib has developed a range of insulation products in flax-linen and Hemp, including Biofib’Chanvre – an eco-designed, semi-rigid panel made from rot-proof hemp fibres. Non-irritant and easy to install, it provides excellent thermal insulation, naturally regulates humidity, and adapts equally well to new builds and heritage renovations.
Their ampliTex™ collection offers technical flax fabrics in a variety of weaves and colours, delivering lightness, mechanical strength, and design freedom.
PowerRibs™ technology – inspired by leaf rib structures – provides an ultra-light 3D framework that increases rigidity while reducing weight.
Together, these technologies enable lighter, stronger, more sustainable solutions.
Another example is FRD-CODEM, which with scientific partners has developed woven and non-woven flax-linen and hemp reinforcements in modular composite panels that integrate bio-based and recycled materials. This approach paves the way for new materials for design and interiors that unite aesthetics, performance, and circular economy principles.
Similarly, Circular Structures is developing innovative technical textiles for composites. Combined with resin, these fabrics create next-generation materials suited to demanding sectors such as boating, automotive – and, in future, design and architecture.
At the crossroads of Flax-Linen and Hemp, this new wave of composite materials opens fresh possibilities for architects and designers looking for innovative solutions that combine function, sustainability, and style.
Beyond the Rendez-Vous de la Matière events, in order to support connections between designers and manufacturers in their projects throughout the year, the Alliance offers a showroom and an online sourcing tool that allows users to discover its members' creative textile materials and innovative technical solutions in European linen and hemp for the fashion, home and composites markets.
Les Rendez-Vous de la Matière fair (by FORMÆ) - 11th edition
9 and 10 octobre 2025,
Carreau du Temple - 4 rue Eugène Spuller 75003 Paris
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