When you step out the rear doors of Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs this week, you’ll find a new series of public seating that brings a dash of contemporary design to the French Renaissance setting as part of D'Days Paris design Festival. Set amid the pristine hedges and historic architecture, stainless-steel benches by designer Franck Magne and the Paris-based furnishings brand Objets Publics emerge from the landscape like oversize sprigs of shiny silver grass, offering a perch on each blade. A gleaming waste bin mirrors the buildings, sky, and greenery. Appropriately named “Reflexions,” the series takes on imagery from its environment, provoking the sitter to reflect upon the surrounding design, old and new.

Through June 7 at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 rue de Rivoli; ddayet