About

Waiting For Ideas is a Paris-based creative studio, founded in 2021 by Jean-Baptiste Anotin. We work on the interface between art and design, creating visually striking and thought-provoking pieces, installations and spaces.

We focus on creating inspiring and innovative furniture, objects, installations, and retail-space projects that push the boundaries, with clients like Kith, Lacoste, Reebok, Shinzo, and even the Mobilier National. We intend to blur borders between the world of Art and Design by collaborating closely with artists like Guillaume Grando, painter Iris Marchand, photographer Mathilde Hiley and set designer Pierre Vaillant. Waiting For Ideas aims to craft a new story behind each project.

Services

Object design. Art installation. Space design.

clients

Mobilier National, Kith, Reebok, Lacoste, Shinzo, Coltesse, Trajectoire Studio.

Exhibitions

2025
Milan, Italy
Alcova
Los Angeles, USA
Design.Space
Brussels, Belgium
Collectible Fair
Paris, France
Matter and Shape
Paris, France
Please, have a seat (solo show)
2024
Paris, France
Pour que tu m'aimes encore, by JTM
Paris, France
Village Palace, during Paris Design Week
Paris, France
Terra Cosmos, Paris Design Week - Factory, Espace Commines
Paris, France
Contemporary Curation, by Galerie Paradis
Marseille, France
Désenchanté, by Affair
Brussels, Belgium
Collectible Fair N°7 with GSL Gallery
Brussels, Belgium
Dialogue by Jean-François Declercq, Collectible Fair N°7
Paris, France
Matter and Shape with GSL GALLERY
Paris, France
Blue Steel, curated by Kristen de La Vallière and John Whelan at GSL GALLERY
2023
Paris, France
Le Salon de Septembre, curated by Edgar Jayet and John Whelan at GSL GALLERY
Toulouse, France
Haute Voltige, oeuvres en plumes de Maxime Leroy
Paris, France
Feu! by Meet Met Met, during Paris Design Week
Brussels, Belgium
Collectible Fair N°6
2022
Deauville, France
Lacoste Ladies Open De Frence
Paris, France
Paris Design Week - Factory, Espace Commines
Brussels, Belgium
Collectible Fair N°5, Curated Section
Paris, France
Body Fluid by The Steidz
2021
Paris, France
When Basketball Inspires by Trajectoire Studio
Paris, France
Paris Design Week - Factory, Espace Commines
Milan, Italy
Isola Design Festival, Salone del Mobile

Awards & Acquisition

2024
AD & Range Rover
Endless Reinvention, selected by Gerry McGovern
2022
Wallpaper*
No Seat Belt Required nominated in 'Best Metal Morphosis'

Press

2025
Digital
STIR
Waiting for Ideas translates motion into stillness with precise, minimalist forms
Print
Design Diffusion
PP-1 unisce la purezza del design alla materialità del vinile
Print
Marie Claire
Techno fil
Digital
Axis Mag
アナログレコードのリスニング体験を再考するターンテーブル「PP-1」
Digital
Dezeen
Waiting For Ideas crafts "monolithic" PP-1 record player from solid aluminium block
Digital
The Verge
The armless PP-1 turntable is made from a solid block of aluminium
Digital
Hypebeast
The PP-1 Is an Ultra-Minimalist Turntable Crafted From Solid Aluminum
Digital
Wallpaper*
Waiting for Ideas have recast the turntable as a minimal aluminium altar for vinyl worship
Digital
Design Boom
Aluminum PP-1 turntable by waiting for ideas plays vinyl records without tonearm or settings
2024
Podcast
The Conversation Pit
VOL1/EP9, In the Pit with JB Anotin
Print
M le Monde
Le nouvel âge du Métal
Print
Le Nouvel Obs
"Les 10 créateurs à suivre", avril 2024
Print
Montagnes des Vosges
Jean-Baptiste Anotin, le designer qui monte
Print
Wallpaper*
Global Interiors, April 2024
Digital
GoodMoods
Collectible 2024 : Les tendances vues à Bruxelles
Print
AD Magazine
AD & Range Rover Awards, le design à l'honneur
Digital
Monsieur.fr
AD & RANGE ROVER AWARDS 2024
Digital
Luxe.net
AD & Range Rover Awards 2024 : Une 3ème édition forte d’allures, de matières & d’innovations
2023
Print
Geste/s
Waiting For Ideas, le design en autodidacte
Digital
GoodMoods
Y2K Nostalgie, des "techno-colors" et tranparences très identitaires
Print
Elle decoration
"Voilà un cendrier qui cache bien son jeu"
Digital
MAD (Madame Figaro)
On se connait ?
Print
M le Monde
Le retour de flamme du cendrier
Digital
Wallpaper*
Twenty emerging designers interpret the ashtray
Print
Formae
L'inspiration par la matière
Digital
STIRpad
'Waiting For Ideas' crafts dialogues between abstraction and function through furniture
Print
AD Magazine
N° 5 du top 15 de l'univers AD, le meilleur de l'été
Print
Vosges Matin
Originaire de Remiremont, le designer JB Anotin poursuit son ascension à Paris
Digital
AD Magazine
Les collections du Mobilier National s'agrandissent
Digital
Milk Decoration
Le Mobilier National étoffe ses collections
2022
Digital
Magazine For Living
Back to the future, Metaplanet
Digital
IDEAT
Quand le NFT devient accessible avec le studio Waiting For Ideas
Digital
Hyepbeast
15 Designers to check out at Collectible in Brussels
Digital
IDEAT
The Steidz Project Room présente Body Fluid
Print
Wallpaper*
Nominated in the Best Metal Morphosis of Wallpaper Design Award
2021
Digital
Dezeen
Six designs to see at the 2021 Isola Design Festival
Digital
Domus
The charm of the automotive industry in an artisanal seat
Digital
Sixtysix Mag
JB Anotin's handcradted chrome chair is an ode to automotive design

team

Arthur Pocheron

Product Designer (2023)

Ines Vaughan

Product Designer (2022)

Eric Ung

Product Designer (2021)

Inquiries

Feel free to contact us at info@waiting-for-ideas.com

For brand collaboration inquiries, please contact jullia@creativeduty.com

For architectural project inquiries, please contact contact@thesteidz.com

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