Initiated by Laurent Denize d'Estrées, founder of the media and public relations group LHLC Presse, Particule 14 is a cultural and educational organisation whose objective is to enlighten the public, professional and amateur, to all the forms of design practices. Its activities are many and varied, including putting on exhibitions in France and abroad, publishing a collection of transversal works dedicated to design, organising lecture series, setting up a summer design school and facilitating individual and joint industrial projects.