French designer, born in 1987, trained at Ecole Boulle where design is inevitably viewed through the prism of arts and crafts. At a very early stage, he became involved in a reflexive process oscillating between tradition and innovation. In Japan, he was apprenticed to a master glass blower. Fascinated by the designers of the 1930s, on his return he joined Studio Andrée Putman in 2010, and carried out projects with major design houses such as Baccarat and Lalique. In 2015, he joined Christophe Delcourt and then spent five years designing furniture for the Delcourt Collection. In 2020, he opened his studio and started developing his own style; the product of his travels, encounters, and reading. His first furniture collection, Les assises du temps perdu, was inspired by characters from the works of Marcel Proust.
Invisible Collection and Mobilier national partner to promote contemporary creation and present limited-edition designs. Mobilier national is a major institution for contemporary creation and the promotion of French decorative arts, whose mission has been to ensure, since the seventeenth century, the conservation and restoration of unique collections in the world. Mobilier national has broadened its scope by launching an annual “Campagne d’Acquisition” to support creativity and to integrate these pieces into the national collections. These works are then exhibited in institutional buildings. Thanks to this unprecedented partnership, a selection of contemporary furniture revealed by the Mobilier national’s 2021 “Campagne d’Acquisition” is available for purchase: Collectors will be able to acquire furniture that has been included in the official collections, and is available in limited edition on Invisible Collection.
Following a first exhibit of models at Galerie Gallimard in 2019 and a book published by Bouclard in 2020, eight seats were exhibited for the first time at Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris, in partnership with Atelier Jespers, in February 2021. The centerpiece of this collection is the Verdurin ‘folding screen chair’ made of cedar. It represents the character Sidonie Verdurin, an attractive woman who divinely masters the art of the world. The chair-folding screen Verdurin sets the boundaries of privacy; hides while also suggesting. The small bronzes of Swann’s Beauvais armchair are evoked here by the hammered spheres made of bronzed brass.
Credit pictures: DA Spela Lenarcic / IIIRD MAN and Alexis Leclercq
