Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France

Logo of the regional fund dGrand Large contemporary art - Hauts-de-France

Equipped with a rich photographic collection and installations, the Frac Grand Large – Hauts de France is the only regional contemporary art fund to form an acquisition line around design. Recognized internationally, this collection of icons of European design, from the 1960s to today, expresses an acute awareness of our social, economic and ecological context.


Two-part black screen with hand drawings on each of the two parts
ÅBAKE, The Handshake, 2014-2025, coll. Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France © All rights reserved © Leslie Fernandez

The Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France is one of the partners of the first hour of the National Design Gallery.



L’exposition du moment

Chaise en forme de main

11.06.2026 – 07.03.2027

Design in hand

A true epic of design, from industrial culture from Saint-Etienne to contemporary perspectives to the great changes of the 20th and 21st centuries, lExhibition highlights how objects, hand-to-hand, carry the memory of societies while opening new paths. 

Commissaire : Laurence Mauderli