May 7-20, 2016 New York

MAY 7-20, 2016 NEW YORK

AN INITIATIVE OF THE CULTURAL SERVICES OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US Press contact: Sarah Hamon, s2hcommunication + (305) 904-0909 [email protected]

Follow us: FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE UNITED STATES Website: Frenchculture.org HIGHER EDUCATION, Twitter: @franceinnyc #OuiDesign ARTS, FRENCH LANGUAGE Facebook: Cultural Services French Embassy in the US Oui Design brings the work of 27 international designers and curators plus 15 manufacturers and institutions to New York in May for NYCxDESIGN as part of the French Embassy’s initiative to enhance French-American exchange in the field of design

Oui Design is a multifaceted The program will include the Simultaneously, WantedDesign program developed by the Cultural Transatlantic Creative Exchange, Manhattan will present a French Services of the French Embassy to showcasing new glass, upholstery, pavilion with manufacturers foster creative exchange in design and aluminum works and prototypes organized in partnership with between France and the U.S. By by French-American designer- Business France. In addition, partnering with individuals and manufacturer teams. the entrance to WantedDesign institutions, Oui Design supports Manhattan will feature a site- and initiates creative collaborations Celebrated French designer matali specific collage project by French with designers, artisans, curators, crasset will present We trust in graphic artists Antoine+Manuel, inventors, researchers, teachers, wood, an exhibition of a series commissioned by Visual Magnetics. students, and manufacturers. It also of objects that came out of a brings French designers to the U.S. collaboration with local artisans On May 11 at the Cooper Hewitt, to exhibit their work, and to engage during a residency at Vent des Smithsonian Design Museum, with industry professionals and the Forêts rural art center in Meuse, YMER&MALTA Director Valérie public. France. Maltaverne will give a presentation on the philosophy and process of During NYCxDESIGN, New York Finally, Matt Sindall, designer her French design studio, which she City’s official city-wide celebration and teacher at École Nationale conceives of as a research lab. of design (May 3 -17), Oui Design Supérieure de Création Industrielle- will present a series of projects Les Ateliers (ENSCI-Les Ateliers), one On May 13 and 20 at the Museum at WantedDesign exploring the of France’s most prestigious design of Arts and Design (MAD), curator intersection of design and savoir- schools, will lead a workshop for Alexandra Midal will present faire, new production processes, design students entitled Thinking Designers Screenings, a series of and the impact of design on our and Making: Exploring Materials films and videos by designers. daily lives. The projects presented with a Notion of Playfulness. at WantedDesign Brooklyn reflect From May 13‑16, students from six WantedDesign "French-New Yorker" international design schools: ENSCI- co-founders Odile Hainaut and Claire Les Ateliers (France), Université Aalto Pijoulat commitment as Oui Design’s (Finland), Centro (Mexico), Pratt primary partner. Institute (United States), Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera (El Salvador), and Art Center College of Design (United States), will work together and present a final project to a jury.

Oui Design is supported by Institut français-Paris, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, FACE Foundation, and the Florence Gould Foundation.

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 2 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US 4 French Design during NYCxDESIGN — Calendar

5 Transatlantic Creative Exchange curated by Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat

6 We trust in wood, exhibition by matali crasset and Vent des Forêts

7 WantedDesign: Design Schools Workshop with ENSCI-Les Ateliers with Matt Sindall

8 Transforming How We Use Walls with Antoine+Manuel

9 Designers Screenings at the Museum of Arts and Design curated by Alexandra Midal

10 The New Savoir-Faire: a talk with YMER&MALTA at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

11 Oui Design Upcoming Projects in 2016–2017

12 Participant Biographies

17 About Oui Design

18 Partners

19 Sponsors

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 3 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US FRENCH DESIGN DURING NYCXDESIGN — MAY 2016 / NEW YORK In addition to projects initiated by Oui Design, a number of French designers, also listed below, will be in New York during NYCxDESIGN, reflecting the artistic vitality of contemporary French design.

WHAT WHEN WHERE TAGS

Contemporary and May 4-8, 2016 Collective Design Fair, Skylight Clarkson Sq Fair Art DecoDesigners New York, NY

Transatlantic Creative May 7-17, 2016 WantedDesign Brooklyn, Industry City Exhibition Exchange 274 36th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

We trust in wood by matali May 7-17, 2016 WantedDesign Brooklyn, Industry City Exhibition crasset & Vent des Forêts 274 36th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

A Sense of Place, How May 10, 2016 Parsons The New School for Design Panel Graphic Designers Make 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 discussion Cities Too - AIGA/NY with Manuel Miranda, Laetitia Wolff and guest speakers

The New Savoir-Faire: May 11, 2016 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Talk a talk with YMER&MALTA 2 E 91th St, New York, NY 10128

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for May 12-19, 2016 Vitra Gallery, 29 9th Ave Exhibition Vitra | Artek | nanimarquina | Axor New York, NY 10014

Designers Screenings May 13, 2016 Museum of Arts and Design, Theatre, Screening & – Part 1with a Q&A 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019 talk with Alexandra Midal

Design Schools Workshop May 13-16, 2016 WantedDesign Brooklyn, Industry City Workshop with ENSCI-Les Ateliers 274 36th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

So French Design by Business May 13-16, 2016 WantedDesign Manhattan, Terminal Stores Fair France with Guéridon, Litogami, 269 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001 Myriam Maxo, Sarah Lavoine and others

iwoodlove May 13-16, 2016 WantedDesign Manhattan, Terminal Stores Fair with Guillaume Martin & 269 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001 Michael Damen for LightArt

Philippe Nacson for May 13-16, 2016 WantedDesign Manhattan, Terminal Stores Fair KinderMODERN 269 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001

Transforming How We Use May 13-16, 2016 WantedDesign Manhattan, Terminal Stores Exhibition Walls by Antoine+Manuel 269 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001

Océane Delain for Benhardt May 13-16, 2016 WantedDesign Manhattan, Terminal Stores Fair design 269 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001

BLACKBODY May 13-16, 2016 WantedDesign Manhattan, Terminal Stores Fair 269 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001

Fermob May 13-16, 2016 WantedDesign Manhattan, Terminal Stores Fair 269 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001

French Pavilion May 14-17, 2016 ICFF 28th Edition Javits Center, Fair at Luxe Interiors + Design 655 W 34th St, New York, NY 10001 Magazine Exhibition

French-American case study: May 15, 2016 WantedDesign Manhattan, Terminal Stores Talk Chantal Hamaide (Intramuros) 269 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10001 in conversation with Océane Delain, Jerry Helling, Jean-Paul Bath (VIA) & Matt Sindall

Chamber Collection #2, Opening May 19, 2016 Chamber, 515 W 23rd Street Exhibition including French designers New York, NY 10011 Marlène Huissoud

Designers Screenings May 20, 2016 Museum of Arts and Design, Theatre Screening & – Part 2 with a Q&A 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019 talk with Alexandra Midal

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 4 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US TRANSATLANTIC CREATIVE EXCHANGE Curated by Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat, founders and directors of WantedDesign

May 7–17, 2016 Industry City, WantedDesign Brooklyn 274 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

The “Transatlantic Creative The following designer-manufacturer “As French New Yorkers, promoting Exchange” project will unfold teams are confirmed for 2016: French creativity and savoir-faire between May 2016 and May 2017. A and initiating French-American total of 10 French-American pairings CHAPTER 1: MAY 2016 collaborations has been a dear have been created, based on mutual - GLASS: Centre International d’Art and important mission for us since interest in collaborating on a project. Verrier de Meisenthal (CIAV) based in the beginning of WantedDesign. The goal is for both designers Meisenthal (Parc regional des Vosges The Oui Design program is a key and manufacturers to experiment du Nord, France) + U.S. designer initiative that we are thrilled to and explore new areas of creation Steven Haulenbeek support and to be part of. The together, thanks to the - GLASS: Centre International de Transatlantic Creative Exchange designers’ creativity and vision Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts is a unique opportunity for French combined with manufacturers Plastiques (Cirva) based in Marseille manufacturers to discover the new and artisans unique expertise (France) + U.S. designer Jonah generation of American designers and cultural background. The Takagi who may not be as well known exhibition at WantedDesign - UPHOLSTERY: Ligne Roset (France) in France. And for the designers, Brooklyn will showcase prototypes + U.S. designerMarc Thorpe it’s a chance to experiment, think and unique pieces resulting from - ALUMINIUM: Neal Feay Company outside of the box, bring a new the collaborations between the (world leader in creative aluminum) vision and new ideas to life without French and American designers and + French designer Noé Duchaufour commercial constraints. It’s exciting manufacturers. The participants Lawrance for the manufacturers as well to come from all around both countries, - ALUMINIUM: TABISSO (Saint- be able to push boundaries and offering an interesting way to Nazaire, France) + U.S . designer develop extraordinary pieces that discover different regions of France Michael Sean Stolworthy highlight their expertise. And it’s and the U.S. through their creative an amazing opportunity to share backgrounds. the magic behind the making of a beautiful object with the WantedDesign audience.” Odile Left: Micah stool Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat ©Tabisso Right: Ice and Glass CIAV / Meisenthal ©CIAV

Jonah Takagi, Fernando Torre and David Veis Noé Duchaufour Lawrance Marc Thorpe, Vol de Nuit ©Cirva ©Alex Blair ©Ligne Roset

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 5 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US WE TRUST IN WOOD, Exhibition by matali crasset and Vent des Forêts

May 7–17, 2016 Industry City, WantedDesign Brooklyn 274 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

Vent des Forêts is a rural art For the collection We trust in “To try to prolong the experience center located in Meuse, France, wood, matali crasset has developed with the Maisons Sylvestres, it near the borders of Luxembourg, close relationships with a group seemed logical for us to focus next Belgium and Germany. Every year of local artisans who impart to on creating a series of objects since 1997, artists have been invited each of their creations their own that would offer simple but rich for residencies at this secluded expertly cultivated style and their interac with wood: eating on natural setting. In 2009, matali personal flare. The cabinetmaker wooden plates, cooking in unusual crasset began interacting with this assembles a small oak stool, the containers… These were developed space. Vent des Forêts is open to basketmaker braids a wicker bread along with local artisans, who often the public and invites meandering cover, the blacksmith polishes a run one-man productions: wood walks, thinking, and dreaming. It cuit-pommes (a small inox rotisserie sculptors, basket weavers, wood or also doubles as a private forestry for baking apples), and students metal turners, wrought iron makers, operation. At Vent des Forêts, from a specialized high school the Carmelite Nuns of Verdun. crasset designed three “Maisons assemble candleholders. We trust Obviously, aside from simply Sylvestres” (huts): The Birdhouse, in wood presents the richness of a making these objects, this project The Hazelnut, and Chrysalis. These very elemental exchange between was also about spotlighting men are small wooden structures in which the designer and the artisans of a and women in a particular field, a hiker could spend the night, taking territory not known for its resources. with certain methods and skills, and his or her meal on a plate made of hopefully leading them on to other sycamore wood with a carved rice adventures and projects.” matali spoon, and bundling up in a stitched crasset blanket or in a wool scarf woven à We trust in wood Plumlaine made by Carmel of Verdun l’ancienne. ©Loup Godé

Les Maisons Sylvestres La Noisette (The Hazelnut) matali crasset ©Camille Gresset

We trust in wood Cuit-pommes (Apple cooker) made by artisan J. Louis Hurlin ©VdF

We trust in wood Wooden clogs made by artisan Jean Bergeron ©Loup Godé

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 6 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US WANTEDDESIGN: DESIGN SCHOOLS WORKSHOP with ENSCI-Les Ateliers

May 13–16, 2016 Industry City, WantedDesign Brooklyn 274 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

The École Nationale Supérieure de Ateliers will lead the Design Schools “The workshop centers around Création Industrielle-Les Ateliers Workshop in 2016. the idea that ‘playfulness’ can be (ENSCI-Les Ateliers) is one of the instilled into an object and can leading industrial design schools Over the course of five days, 27 generate a positive effect either in France. Based in Paris, and very students from six international through the perception or the much oriented toward cutting edge design schools including ENSCI-Les use of the object. I would like the technology, ENSCI-Les Ateliers has Ateliers (France), Université Aalto students to understand that a trained many world-class designers (Finland), Centro (Mexico), Pratt successful object embraces the such as Patrick Jouin, Jean-Louis Institute (United States), Escuela de intellect, emotions, and intuition. Fréchin and matali crasset. Comunicación Mónica Herrera (El My hope is that the students can Salvador), and Art Center College develop proposals that articulate For its sixth edition, WantedDesign of Design (United States), will work these factors in a symbiotic will invest in its school outreach together and present a final project manner. Much of the development programs with new zeal. After an to a jury. A workshop, Thinking and work will be carried out ahead of extremely successful exhibition at Making: Exploring Materials with time online to allow time for the the Biennale Internationale Design the Notion of Playfulness, will be fabrication of the projects once in Saint-Etienne in 2014, followed by an led from May 13-16 by Matt Sindall New York.” Matt Sindall inaugural exhibition, Diplorama+, at (French designer and teacher at WantedDesign Brooklyn in 2015, and ENSCI-Les Ateliers). having participate to three previous WantedDesign workshops, ENSCI-Les

Design School Workshop, 2015 ©Ikonphoto

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 7 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US TRANSFORMING HOW WE USE WALLS with Antoine+Manuel Commissioned by Visual Magnetics and WantedDesign Manhattan

May 13-16, 2016 Terminal Stores, WantedDesign Manhattan 269 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10001

French graphic artists Antoine In addition to their participation in “We have been fond of design Audiau and Manuel Warosz this project, Antoine+Manuel were since we were teenagers, so we (Antoine+Manuel) will present a also commissioned by the Cultural were very excited by the Oui collage project using a wall covered Services of the French Embassy to Design project. We didn’t want to in magnetic paint produced by Visual create the logo and visual identity go too quickly in an obvious and Magnetics. for the Oui Design program. In their cliché direction. […] There aren’t work, Antoine+Manuel often use precise references, more intuitions, “We are honored to have Antoine typography and illustrations to make I would say, or sensations we and Manuel take our materials collages and photo reconstructions wanted to express: landscape, for a spin as a new medium. Our with a surrealist touch. For Oui delicious, technical, signage, humor, collaboration with the design Design, Antoine+Manuel designed materialism, mobile. We also duo creates an opportunity for an innovative, dynamic graphic that thought these two-dimensional WantedDesign Manhattan visitors evokes architecture, typographic letters could become an actual to totally immerse themselves in drawing and contemporary design. object, and then maybe adding one of their pieces in the form of The letters that form the words “Oui the fourth dimension to it, with an expansive interactive mural. This Design” link together like a mobile or low-tech short animated images.” project is particularly interesting a toy train. The textures and bright Antoine+Manuel because few graphic designers colors form a landscape or planet. are able to pique curiosity, and push creative limits, in the same way that Antoine+Manuel do— beyond an installation, it will be an experience.” Joe Deetz, Visual Magnetics CEO

©Antoine+Manuel, project for Visual Magnetics

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 8 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US DESIGNERS SCREENINGS PART 1: Friday, May 13, 2016 at 7:00 pm PART 2: Friday, May 20, 2016 at 7:00 pm

Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019 Theater $10 general / $5 members and students

In collaboration with the city-wide Designers Screenings: Part 1 Designers Screenings: Part 2 NYCxDESIGN festival, the Museum Q&A with Alexandra Midal Q&A with Alexandra Midal of Arts and Design (MAD) has invited Duration: 1h34 min Duration: 1h48 min guest curator Alexandra Midal to Brynjar Sigurðarson, Borgþór Jasper Morrison, A World Without a present a two-part program of film Sveinsson World shorts entitled Designers Screenings. Alexandra Midal, Domestic Psycho Noam Toran, Object for Lonely Envisioned as a series of statements, Marguerite Humeau, Proposal Men; Subliminal Furniture; Desire Designers Screenings is a vibrant for Resuscitating Prehistoric Management celebration of the medium of film and Creature; The Things? – A Trip Alexandra Midal, Hocus Pocus: video, as harnessed by designers. It to Europa; Requiem for Harley Twilight in My Mind shows the expanding boundaries of Warren “Screams from Hell”: A El Ultimo Grito, A Rematerialisation the design discipline. Intended for Subterranean Odyssey of Systems: Industries anyone interested in storytelling, Michaël Mouyal, In Equilibrium design and visual studies, the Onkar Kular, The Politics of Shoes “It is no coincidence that design screenings will illustrate how film matali crasset & Juli Susin, Voyage and cinema blossomed during the has become a powerful language for en Uchronie same years. Norman Bel Geddes, designers. one of the first major industrial designers in the U.S., worked in Hollywood before opening his studio on Broadway. And iconic designer-architect, Charles Eames, directed air acrobatics scenes on Billy Wilder’s The Spirit of St. Louis, and even helped write the movie’s script.” Alexandra Midal

Marguerite Humeau / Le Studio Humain. Digital Epic for Requiem for Harley Warren "Screams from Hell". HD video (image, sound), 1 min 50 s (2015) ©M. Humeau

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 9 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US THE NEW SAVOIR-FAIRE: a talk with YMER&MALTA Director Valérie Maltaverne and Sarah Coffin, Curator and Head, Product Design and Decorative Arts Department at Cooper Hewitt Wednesday, May 11, at 6:30 pm

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128 Lecture Room General Admission $15, Members $10 and Students $8

Revisiting traditional French crafts, On May 11, YMER&MALTA Director “YMER&MALTA studio is known or savoir-faire, such as marquetry, Valérie Maltaverne with Sarah for its unique approach to design. inlaying, and carving, the French Coffin, Curator and Head, Product Our work is constantly fluctuating design studio YMER&MALTA creates Design and Decorative Arts between art, design and craft. Each limited edition contemporary Department at Cooper Hewitt, collection is a witty combination furniture and design objects. will give a presentation at Cooper of traditional craftsmanship and Produced using timeless materials Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum cutting edge innovation; we offer - marble, leather, glass, and wood - on the philosophy and process of timeless design pieces. Our way YMER&MALTA pieces are precious her company, and discuss three of working is very special. It’s a objects that are built to last and exceptional works from the studio’s constant dialogue. The creative remain relevant far into the future. marquetry collection designed by process usually lasts two years and Benjamin Graindorge, Sylvain Rieu- is an ongoing dialogue between Piquet, and Sebastian Bergne. designers, the craftsmen and YMER&MALTA. But first it begins with the designer and me: we discuss and swap ideas every day. It’s often a long, winding path from the first sketch to the extraordinary final work, seemingly Illusion by Sebastian Bergne so obvious that we should instantly ©YMER&MALTA have discovered the right material, colors, techniques and skills.” Valérie Maltaverne

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 10 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US OUI DESIGN UPCOMING PROJECTS IN 2016 –2017 Oui Design is a two-year long program and it will continue to develop new projects in collaboration with American institutions, galleries and fairs.

Paulin, Paulin, Paulin Proust’s Muse: Pierre Chareau: Modern Gallery Perrotin, New York The Countess Greffulhe Architecture and Design Jun. 23 – Aug. 19, 2016 The Museum at FIT, Fashion Institute The Jewish Museum 909 Madison Ave, New York, of Technology Nov. 4, 2016 – Mar. 26, 2017 NY 10021 Sep. 22, 2016 – Jan. 3, 2017 1109 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10128 Seventh Ave at 27 St, New York, “I was aiming to show just how far NY 10001 In recent years Pierre Chareau we could make modernity go.” Pierre (1883-1950) has been rediscovered as Paulin This exhibition will feature 40 one of the early twentieth century’s The exhibition displays Pierre Paulin extraordinary fashion pieces and leading figures of French Decorative designs produced in limited editions accessories from the fabulous Arts. He rose from modest beginnings by Paulin, Paulin, Paulin the firm wardrobe of Elisabeth de Caraman- in Bordeaux’s Jewish community to founded by Pierre Paulin’s family Chimay, the Countess Greffuhle become one of Paris’s most fashionable in 2008. These iconic objects by (1860-1952). A famous beauty, designers, primarily known for his the most famous French designer celebrated for her “aristocratic and custom-made furniture and lighting. His of his day, that institution such as artistic elegance,” the Countess residential masterpiece, the Maison de MoMA acquired in 1967, heralded had an audacious sense of style. Verre, has exerted a lasting influence the new society being shaped by She fascinated her contemporaries, on architects since the early 1930s, the massive cultural, economic including Marcel Proust who told but his legacy as a designer is under- and technological changes of the her cousin, Robert de Montesquiou: acknowledged along with the difficulty early 1960s. Paulin’s furniture fitted “I have never seen a woman so he endured while fleeing from Nazi the forms of the human body as it beautiful.” When Proust wrote his persecution to the United States. Pierre freed itself of social constraints. novel, In Search of Lost Time, the Chareau: Modern Architecture and His rigorous research into new Countess Greffuhle was one of the Design provides a fresh look at the materials, combined with innovative primary inspirations for his immortal internationally recognized designer in construction methods placing fictional character, Oriane, the order to showcase his beautiful pieces wellbeing at the heart of the process, Duchess de Guermantes, of whom he in a rich cultural context. The exhibition authorised all kinds of arrangements wrote: “Each of her dresses seemed will also focus on Chareau’s patronage and made space malleable. Paulin’s like… the projection of a particular of the arts and recreate his own art radical artistic stance conjoined aspect of her soul.” collection of paintings, sculptures, and formal modularity with sensuous drawings by significant artists, which functionalism. This exhibition has been presented included works by Picasso, Braque, at Palais Galliera in Paris from Gris, Mondrian, Modigliani, Miro, and A retrospective of Pierre Paulin will Nov. 2015 to Mar. 2016, curated by Chagall. be held at Centre Pompidou in Paris Olivier Saillard. from May 11 to August 22, 2016.

Pierre Paulin, Tapis-Siège, 1970 Mariano Fortuny. Jacket, circa 1912. Bronze and gold Pierre Chareau, Maison de Verre, 1928-1932 Lacquered wood, foam and textile printed green silk velvet, beige silk lining. © Mark Lyon 31 1/2 x 82 3/4 x 82 11/16 inches Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris. © Claire Dorn © Julien Vidal/ Galliera / Roger-Viollet Courtesy Paulin, Paulin, Paulin and Galerie Perrotin

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 11 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US PARTICIPANTS

Antoine+Manuel Centre International d’Art Verrier Sarah Coffin Graphic Design Studio (CIAV) Curator and Department Head at Since 1993, fashion stylist Antoine International Glass Art Center Cooper Hewitt Audiau and product designer The Centre International d’Art With a primary expertise in the field Manuel Warosz have been working Verrier (CIAV), based in Meisenthal, of 17th and 18th century decorative together to develop a new style France, was created in 1992 to arts, Coffin has worked extensively in the graphic arts, referred preserve the area’s centuries- on 18th century and Arts and Crafts to abroad as “French Touch.” old glass-producing history, as movement English and American Antoine+Manuel each implement well as to ensure continuity by silver and furniture, objects of vertu, their own visual style to create reintroducing traditional glass portrait miniatures, jewelry and dreamlike, surreal universes that production methods. CIAV combines chess sets, more recently enjoying blend sensation, emotion, touch craft production and industry, linking the arts of the past with and visual experimentations. Their contemporary creation and those of the present. At Cooper unique aesthetic has garnered much traditional savoir-faire, in order Hewitt, she is responsible for acclaim, leading to collaborations to introduce new concepts in the proposing and organizing national with numerous companies and field of glass, in collaboration with and international exhibitions, as well institutions, such as Christian various artists and companies. The as overseeing the development of Lacroix, Collection Lambert Avignon, CIAV is open to the public. the Product Design and Decorative La Comédie de Clermont, Sèvres, — Arts collection. Most recently, Chanel, Cartier and Grand Palais. for the re-opening of Cooper — Centre International de Recherche Hewitt’s galleries, she was the sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques Project Manager for the Permanent Sebastian Bergne (Cirva) Collection exhibitions including Designer Center for Research on Glass Making Design, and The Hewitt British industrial designer Sebastian and Visual Art Sisters Bergne is renowned for his ability Founded in 1983 in Marseille, — to make everyday objects special France, this atelier welcomes artists, through his elemental, human designers, and architects to work matali crasset approach to design. Bergne’s on specific projects with glass. At Industrial Designer versatility allows him and his team Cirva, artists have the opportunity matali crasset is an industrial to work in different ways: as an to develop their research and designer by training. With a external industrial design facility to projects in collaboration with local knowledgeable yet open-minded international brands, as a designer artisans and a technical team. view of the world, she questions the and supplier of bespoke objects Over the course of thirty years, obviousness of visual codes in order for restaurants, retailers, and Cirva has invited 200 artists to to dismantle them. Her symbolic, individuals, and as the producer of complete various projects in the hospitality-focused work, such as his growing collection of personal fields of contemporary art, design Quand Jim monte à Paris (When works. and decorative art. The center has Jim goes up to Paris), is based on — a collection of around 600 works a series of visual and conscious that are shown in exhibitions in perceptions for which she invents museums and art centers around new relationships with everyday the world. Artists Larry Bell, Pierre space and objects. Her proposals Huyghe, Philippe Parreno and Jean- are never simply directed towards Luc Moulène, and designers R. and an improvement of what already E. Bouroullec, Andrea Branzi, Patrick exists, but toward a development Naggar, and Ettore Sottsass have of typologies structured around all developed projects at Cirva. principles such as modularity, — interlacing networks, etc. She collaborates with eclectic worlds, from electronic music to the textile industry, realizing projects in set design, furniture, architecture, graphics, collaborations with artists, and more. —

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 12 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US Noé Duchaufour Lawrance El Ultimo Grito Odile Hainaut Sculptor, Designer Designer Duo Co-Founder of WantedDesign Noé Duchaufour Lawrance began Founded in 1997 and based in For over 18 years as forceMAJEURE, his career in sculpture, seeking London, El Ultimo Grito is the formerly Raison Pure's Director to recreate historical ties to designer duo Rosario Hurtado of Communications in Paris and the natural world in his own and Roberto Feo. El Ultimo Grito’s based in New York since 1999, work. He loves to marry beauty work continuously researches Odile merged the commercial and necessity, harmony and our relationships with objects and the artistic together in the responsibility. To evoke emotion and culture. The studio’s output communication of design. In May through the use of form has is spread across a multitude 2007, she co-founded Gallery R'Pure become a challenge for him, and of platforms for a range of in New York, introducing the work of he brought this practice to design. international clients, museums and new and emerging furniture, lighting Duchaufour Lawrance never limits organizations, including Magis, and object designers to the New the scope of his work, and develops Lavazza, Museo Nacional de Arte York design marketplace. In 2011, projects with manufacturers (Ligne Reina Sofia, British Airways, and Odile co-founded WantedDesign Roset, Bernhardt Design, Ceccotti The Victoria & Albert Museum. Their NYC with Claire Pijoulat, revisiting Collezionni, Cinna, Zanotta), interior work is in the permanent collections the traditional trade show format. designers (Air France lounges, Ciel of the MoMA in New York, Stedelijk With her connection to design de Paris, the Yquem restaurant at Le in Amsterdam, and The V&A in institutions, schools and museums, Meurice, the chalet Transhumance) London. the design press, furniture and even luxury groups (Paco Rosario Hurtado studied economics showrooms, manufacturers and Rabanne, YSL Beauté, Perrier Jouët). at Alcala de Henares University in artisans, and visiting all major — Madrid, before moving to London international fairs in Paris, Milan, where she studied cabinetry at the London, Mexico or Miami, Odile École Nationale Supérieure de London College of Furniture, and continues to seek out and promote Création Industrielle (ENSCI-Les completed her B.A. in Industrial new creative talent and new ideas Ateliers) Design at Kingston University. She around design. School for Advanced Studies in has been a principal lecturer in — Design the Design program at Goldsmiths Founded in 1982, ENSCI-Les University in London since 1999, and Steven Haulenbeek Ateliers in Paris is the only school currently co-runs the Space and Designer, Teacher in France exclusively dedicated to Communications program at HEAD- Since graduating with top honors industrial design. The pedagogy at Genève alongside Feo. from the School of the Art Institute ENSCI-Les Ateliers revolves around Roberto Feo studied sociology and of Chicago, he has worked as an practical projects: students draw social anthropology at Complutense industrial designer, a furniture from theoretical and experimental University in Madrid. He has been designer, and has taught at his approaches and workshops run by a principal lecturer in the Design alma mater. In 2010 he began professional designers, in order to Products program at The Royal his independent practice, Steven create their own work. In addition College of Art in London since 1999, Haulenbeek Design Concepts Inc. to instructors, the institution and co-directed Platform 10. He is (SHDC Inc.), an interdisciplinary invites various experts, artists, a Senior Design Research Fellow at studio concentrated on furniture, engineers, philosophers, and Kingston University. lighting, and objects for the home. industry professionals to teach. In — His work runs the gamut in scale, the studio, students and professors material and process, but all work side-by-side, using traditional Benjamin Graindorge pieces exhibit a similar mastery materials such as wood, metal and Designer of materials and an aesthetic plastic, and modern materials such Benjamin Graindorge is a young simplicity through a very hands-on, as composites and textiles. Studies star in the world of French design. experimental prototyping style. and experimentations extend to He graduated from ENSCI-Les — micro and nanotechnology, digital Ateliers in 2006, and was awarded labs, and new communication and a VIA (Valorisation de l’innovation information technology. matali dans l’Ameublement) grant for crasset, Patrick Jouin, Jean- his “Le Paysage domestique” Louis Fréchin, Laurent Massaloux, (domestic landscape) in 2007. In Benjamin Graindorge, Constance 2009, Graindorge was a resident Guisset, and Sylvain Rieu-Piquet are at the Villa Kujoyama in Japan, among the designers and architects where he continued his research who have graduated from ENSCI- into the “contemplation of the Les Ateliers. daily life,” further developing his — fluid, dreamlike style. He has produced objects for Cinna, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, and a collection of limited edition pieces for the marquetry collection of YMER&MALTA. —

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 13 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US Marguerite Humeau Ligne Roset Alexandra Midal Artist, Designer Design Manufacturer Curator, Professor Marguerite Humeau’s work stages Ligne Roset is one of the most Professor Alexandra Midal is a the crossing of great distances in influential French manufacturers, freelance curator. Midal started her time and space; transitions between creators and distributors. All Ligne career as Dan Graham’s assistant animal and mineral; and encounters Roset products are developed at the before becoming Director of the FRAC between personal desires and natural company’s own industrial site (in Ain, Haute-Normandie. She is currently a forces. Humeau weaves factual France), which allows the company to professor at HEAD, University of Art events into speculative narratives, control the quality of its products from & Design (Geneva). In the last years, thereby enabling unknown, invisible, start to finish. Creativity, a key value she has produced films of visual unreachable, extinct or synthetic of the brand, is also expressed through theory: Hocus Pocus: Twilight in my forms of life to erupt in grandiose the materials and the manufacturing Mind; An Introduction to an Eames splendor. Combining prehistory, processes; if a new product demands Atlas; Domestic Psycho, and more. occult biology, and science fiction it, the industrial tools integrate new Recent curatorial projects include in a disconcerting spectacle, the hardware, and the company acquires Politique-Fiction, Liberté, égalité, works resuscitate the past, conflate new skills. This philosophy of innovation fraternité, Tomorrow Now: Where subterranean and subcutaneous, all remains constant to the brand, Design Meets Sci-Fi, and shows with the while updating the quest genre for stretching from the materials (wood, Marguerite Humeau, Noam Toran, the information age. Humeau’s design metal, synthetic foam, plastic) to the Superstudio, Auger-Loizeau, and work has been shown in various solo finished products (seats, furniture, Carlo Mollino. She has published and group exhibitions in galleries and lighting, textiles, carpets and bedding). numerous works including Design, museums, including the MoMA (New Designers, architects, and fashion l’anthologie; matali crasset: Works; York), The Victoria & Albert Museum, designers who work for Ligne Roset and Antidesign, Design: Introduction and the Hayward Gallery (London). In include Jean Nouvel, Jean Charles à l’histoire d’une discipline. In 2016, 2016, she will have a solo show at the de Castelbajac, Eric Jourdan, R. et E. she will curate the show Eames & Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Bouroullec, Inga Sempé, Philippe Nigro, Hollywood (ADAM) and will publish — and Pierre Paulin. The company’s most Design by Accident (Sternberg Press). successful furniture line is Togo by — Onkar Kular Michel Ducaroy, which is still produced Designer today. Jasper Morrison Using design as a medium for — Designer exploring everyday rituals, from Jasper Morrison set up his Office for drinking tea to watching television, Valérie Maltaverne Design in London in 1986, and his Onkar Kular has developed a series Director YMER&MALTA creations have since been met with of conceptual products. Since In 2009, Valérie Maltaverne great demand. His work was included graduating from the Royal College established her design agency in the Documenta 8 exhibition in of Art in 2002, he has exhibited YMER&MALTA to combine creative Kassel in 1987, for which he designed Machines for Living in Tokyo, innovation with the highest level the Reuters News Centre. He has Stockholm and Eindhoven, where of craftsmanship and aesthetic since designed products for SCP in it was viewed by Gijs Bakker and excellence. A former audio and London, the German door handle Renny Ramakers, co-founders of video producer with twenty years of producer FSB, the office furniture Droog design group. Kular’s work experience, Maltaverne approaches company Vitra, and the Italian is distinguished by an awareness design as a producer conceives furniture producer Cappellini. Jasper of the functions of the objects he a story, allowing each object to has worked consistently with the develops, not just of their formal weave a beautiful narrative. She following companies: Alessi Spa, qualities. He currently works at combines her extensive design Italy; Alias Srl, Italy; Canon Camera MIT Media Lab in Dublin, as well knowledge with her far-reaching Division, Japan; Cappellini Spa, as at his own practice, where he is connections to major figures in the Italy; Flos Spa, Italy; FSB GmbH, developing a new series of objects, field, and has developed projects Germany; Magis S.r.l., Italy; Rosenthal TV Times, which relate to our use of with designers such as Benjamin AG, Germany; Rowenta, France; the television. Graindorge, Sylvain Rieu-Piquet, and Sony Design Centre Europe; Vitra — Normal Studio. International AG, Switzerland. In — 2004, he began consultancies with Samsung Electronics (Korea), Muji (Japan), Ideal Standard (UK), and Olivetti (Italy). —

Michaël Mouyal Designer and Director Michaël Mouyal is a young designer with a working range from performance and speculative design to art direction and typography. In Equilibrium had been presented and performed at HEAD-Geneva, at the Design Days (Geneva), at Abecedarium - Paris Les Arts Décoratifs (Paris) and published in Multiplexer, a design journal released by Goldsmith Press in London last October 2015. —

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 14 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US Neal Feay Company Michael Sean Stolworthy Juli Susin Aluminum Design Studio Designer Artist, Publisher Neal Feay Company is the global A technology driven designer with Juli Susin was born in Moscow. In leader in creative aluminum, an intrinsic passion for creating 1981 he moved to Berlin, and two implementing cutting edge extraordinary things, Michael Sean years later enrolled at the École manufacturing technology and Stolworthy pushes the boundaries nationale supérieure des Beaux- design. The third generation Santa of style with his bespoke works of Arts, Paris. Between 1996 and 2000, Barbara-based company continues art. Approaching his designs with he and Véronique Bourgoin founded to push the boundaries in texture, an unconventional perspective, he Atelier Reflexe, an experimental form, color, and application, and finds a true sense of creation in photography school. In 2012, he has collaborated with an expansive exploring the possibilities of form created Royal Book Lodge, an list of top-tier artists, architects, through digital technology and international platform for artistic designers and manufacturers. emerging manufacturing processes. collaborations, that spawned Current and previous projects His career has been cultivated multiple print editions, a nomadic include work with Opening through creative roles designing gallery, a collection of works, and a Ceremony, Johanna Grawunder, and creating 3-D animated visual review. Within Royal Book Lodge, he Holly Hunt, Kenzo, Marc Newson effects, digital media art, stage executives various artistic projects and Logan Hicks, among others. and event designs, exhibitions, and and artist books with Ralph Rumney, — furniture & objects. Over the years, Raymond Pettibon, Andy Hope he’s designed for clients such as 1930, André Butzer, Dorota Jurzak, Claire Pijoulat Oprah, Ferrari, Microsoft, Samsung, Veronique Bourgoin, Kai Althof, Co-founder of WantedDesign Kenwood, JVC, Magnavox, Philips, Jason Roadhes, matali crasset and While still a student in France, Kodak, LVMH, Las Vegas resort others. In 2010 he started working Claire started working on a variety hotels, and many others. with the studio Ernan, a ceramic of different projects for a design — atelier in Albisola, Italy, where he studio and importer and later for also collaborated with Jonathan Roche Bobois International in 2002, Brynjar Sigurðarson Meese and Andy Hope 1930, among which took her to Vietnam, Greece, Designer, Teacher others. In 2015, he created Magnet Russia and Italy. After receiving her Sigurðarson’s work is intrinsically River and his first publication, IKM- Masters in International Business linked to storytelling and narratives, 12M. from the University of Turin (Italy), which are deeply rooted in Icelandic — Claire relocated to New York in culture. He uses various media such 2005 to start her career as as drawings, photography, video, TABISSO Marketing Director for Roche sound, and furniture in order to Design editor Bobois USA. In 2010, Claire began convey his ideas in a poignant way. TABISSO is a French design freelancing for web agencies, Since 2011, he has established his editor founded in 2010, based in foreign cultural offices in NYC and own studio, and has been teaching Saint-Nazaire boldly overlooking international companies, focusing in the Masters Department at ECAL, the Atlantic Ocean. Focusing on new communication and web Lausanne. Current and recent studio on bespoke products for the strategy projects. She co-founded projects involve work for Camper, Contract market, TABISSO works WantedDesign with Odile Hainaut Cirva, Galerie kreo, Manufacture with designers of the likes of Noé in 2011. WantedDesign, now going nationale-Sèvres, PCM, and Spark Duchaufour Lawrance to imagine into its sixth year, is the result of Design Space, and his pieces have high-end design furniture and an afternoon conversation, during been shown in numerous group accessories, promoting cutting- which both women realized their exhibitions. Currently, Sigurðarson edge yet relevant aesthetics for shared passion for design could is working on various projects workspace and hospitality projects. fill a void within this specialized including self-produced objects Purposefully export-oriented, their community. sold out of the studio, furniture, Made in France design furniture — accessories, and a theatrical caters to an international audience performance. of prestigious interior design studios Sylvain Rieu-Piquet — and their high profile clients. The Designer approach is to grant their clients, Sylvain Rieu-Piquet is a French Matt Sindall architects and interior designers all artist, and a graduate of ENSCI- Designer, Teacher latitude and freedom to shape their Les Ateliers and École normale Matt Sindall started his career as project true to their own vision. supérieure, Cachan. A polymorphic a set designer for the National TABISSO deeply believes in the artist, Rieu-Piquet creates paintings Theatre in London, and then moved virtues of a sustainable economy. on glass as well as design pieces, on to work for the BBC as an They manufacture their products all in a strong, imposing style. art director for many successful in France to cut back on the Rieu-Piquet is a curious artist, both programs. Today, he designs many environmental impact and promote mastering traditional techniques different things, including products, local employment. and experimenting with new interiors, and exhibitions, and has — possibilities offered by technology. worked with L’Oréal, Renault and He was invited by YMER&MALTA to Groupe Flo. “A designer lives in participate in two group exhibitions: his own world, but the role of a Skin-Deep and Marquetry: Fire All designer is to improve upon it,”says Animals. Sindall. — —

OUI DESIGN 7–20 MAY, 2016 — NEW YORK 15 CULTURAL SERVICES FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE US Jonah Takagi Noam Toran Pascal Yonet Designer, Musician Designer, Filmmaker, Writer Art Center Director Born in Tokyo and raised in New Noam Toran’s work involves the Pascal Yonet has been the artistic England, Takagi has a B.A. from creation of intricate narratives director of Vent des Forêts the Rhode Island School of Design. developed as a means to reflect since 2008. Yonet aims to unite For several years, Takagi played upon the interrelations of history, different worlds, to promote bass guitar for various indie rock memory, cinema and literature. The contemporary art in an area with bands while designing furniture research-based works examine how a strong agricultural tradition, to between tours and recording fictions influence the collective bring together the diverse skills sessions. He later established the consciousness, be it as history, myth of artists and artisans, and to multidisciplinary design studio or memory. Toran deconstructs and develop experimental projects. After Atelier Takagi as a creative outlet reconfigures cinematic and literary studying philosophy he became an and workshop for producing objects codes, conventions and structures, independent editor, and in 2001 that require closer examination – and weaves them with historical became deputy director of the objects that inspire, inform and re- materials, thereby complicating Centre national de l’édition et de contextualize our surroundings. and questioning the divide between l’art imprimé (Chatou, France). — artifact and artifice. Toran’s — work is screened, exhibited and Marc Thorpe published internationally, notably Architect, Industrial Designer at the CNAC Pompidou (Paris), With a Master’s degree in Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), Venice architecture from Parsons School Architecture Biennale, The Victoria of Design in New York City, Thorpe & Albert Museum (London), Israel established New York-based Museum (Jerusalem), Witte de With Marc Thorpe Design in 2005 as a (Rotterdam), MuHKA (Antwerp), multidisciplinary design practice. Museum of Modern Art (NYC), His studio’s portfolio ranges from Miyake Studio Gallery (Tokyo), architecture and interior design to Kulturhuset (Stockholm) and Haus industrial design and branding. He der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin). has worked extensively in Europe, — Asia, Africa and the Americas, and continues to collaborate on projects Vent des Forêts with a wide range of partners. Art Center Marc Thorpe Design has worked Vent des Forêts is a rural art center with leading international brands in the Lorraine region of France, including MOROSO, Casamania, near the borders of Luxembourg, Stella Artois, Under Armour, Saatchi Belgium and Germany. Founded & Saatchi, Mercedes Benz, Cooper in 1997, Vent des Forêts offers an Hewitt, Hearst, Chrysler, Acura, outdoor workshop and gallery Target, David Yurman, Bernhardt space, and a residency program Design, Yahoo, Davidoff, Infiniti and for artists seeking a natural many more. surroundings in which to work. Vent — des Forêts also offers the public 45 kilometers of marked trails on which discover the over ninety art projects woven into the landscape. The center receives more than 25,000 visitors every year, including families, hiking groups, schools, art aficionados, and visitors from nearby Holland and Belgium. The 2015 artists-in-residence were Damien Deroubaix (FR), Nicolas Floc’h (FR), matali crasset (FR), Junko (JP) & Thomas Tilly (FR), Aung-Ko (MM), Bevis Martin & Charlie Youle (GB), and Ehren Tool (US). —

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Oui Design is a multifaceted program “The energy around design in New The French Embassy commissioned to foster creative exchange in York City is undeniable. The city has French graphic artists Antoine design between France and the always attracted creative people Audiau and Manuel Warosz U.S. that was lauched in January by virtue of its excellent museums, (Antoine+Manuel) to create a logo 2016 by the Cultural Services of the galleries, artist communities, and and visual identity for the Oui French Embassy. By partnering with design fairs. In France, creative Design program. Antoine+Manuel individuals and institutions on both industries like design are integral to designed a contemporary, innovative, sides of the Atlantic, Oui Design French life. They are as much a part dynamic graphic that evokes supports and initiates creative of our national heritage as they are architecture, typographic drawing collaborations with designers, key players in our economy. Excellent and contemporary design. The letters artisans, curators, inventors, design schools and a longstanding that form the words “Oui Design” link researchers, teachers, students, and tradition of decorative arts have together like a mobile or a toy train. manufacturers. It also brings French allowed France to cultivate a rich The textures and bright colors form a designers to the U.S. to exhibit their and varied design legacy. As a landscape or planet. work, and to engage with industry result, many French designers and professionals and the public. In so companies from the cultural and The Cultural Services of the French doing, the program aims to enhance creative sector have become global Embassy promotes the best of the economic and creative aspects of leaders in their field, contributing to French arts, literature, cinema, digital the design industry in both countries. the vitality of France’s economy. Our innovation, language, and higher goal with Oui Design is to showcase education across the U.S. Based in Supported by Institut français-Paris, this artistic excellence on an New York City, Washington D.C., and the French Ministry of Culture and international stage, and sow seeds eight other cities across the country, Communication, FACE Foundation, for an even deeper international the Cultural Services brings artists, and the Florence Gould Foundation, collaboration,” said Bénédicte de authors, intellectuals and innovators Oui Design will consist of exhibitions, Montlaur, Cultural Counselor of the to cities nationwide. It also builds talks, workshops, debates, French Embassy in the U.S. partnerships between French and residencies, and more in New American artists, institutions, and York in 2016 and 2017. Meanwhile, universities on both sides of the additional projects and events will Atlantic. In New York, through take place in Boston, Chicago, and its bookshop Albertine, it fosters Miami. The program will offer U.S. French-American exchange around audiences a context in which to literature and the arts. discover and exchange with some of www.frenchculture.org the most important designers and professionals in France today.

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