When the French design duo Hauvette & Madani released their debut furniture collection in 2021, they called it Amuse-Bouche, after the small canapés served prior to a meal. Their newest collection, which launched during Paris’s design week last month, has a slightly more esoteric name — following with the dining theme, they called it Entremets, dubbed for the decorative after-dinner or between-course treats popular in French cuisine — but it’s a clear and logical evolution from their previous releases. “Amuse-Bouche served as the manifesto,” say the designers. “Each year, we will take a piece from the first collection and draw inspiration from it for the next one.” For Entremets, oak, lacquer, and Art Deco accents are the primary ingredients, resulting in a mélange of pieces with a distinctly 1930s feel. This means hard lines, essential geometries, and lots of layered materials, which have been cropping up a lot in new collections recently. Deco is seemingly the design era du jour.

Designers Samantha Hauvette and Lucas Madani cite architect Auguste Perret as a reference for their collection, translating his octagonal paneled rooms into a modular sofa with an oversized, angular corner module. Resting upon a slender L-shaped wooden base, its beige velvet-upholstered seat cushions are accompanied by cylindrical backrests that slot over the vertical portion of the frame. Other seating designs in the series include a sofa and armchair, both with boxy wood armrests topped with dark lacquered shelves, and gently tilted backs. This shape is also slimmed down to dining chair proportions, and stripped back to its bare essentials as a bench.

Lacquer and Perret appear again in the eight-sided base of a dining table, whose four planar legs sit at 45 degrees to the sides of the square top, chamfered along their upper edges. The most expressive  – and most Deco – pieces in the range are the floor lamps, comprising tall tapered stands on plate-like bases, holding up flat square glass panels through which light is diffused upwards. These come in two heights, and either a fully gloss or wood cone. Together, the collection is entirely cohesive thanks to the strict material palette and repetition of forms. Hauvette & Madani describe it as “chic, reassuring, and lively — like the perfect dessert,” and we are definitely saving room for it.