Programme 2008 Vitra Design Museum Directions The Domaine de Boisbuchet is located in the Southwest of 11.05. - 17.05. Centre Georges Pompidou France, between the cities of Angoulême, Limoges and Poitiers. Despite the remote location, Boisbuchet is easily Gilles Ebersolt (F) Design & Architecture at Boisbuchet accessible by public transportation. The train journey from 22.06. - 28.06. Paris to Poitiers by TGV takes 90 minutes. Participants will General Information be collected from Poitiers railway station every Sunday at 5 Marco Giunta (I) The day of arrival is Sunday. Participants will arrive at pm. 29.06. - 09.07. / 06.07 - 12.07. Boisbuchet around 6.30pm. A substantial dinner at 8.00pm We will send applicants wishing to travel by car a detailed Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Limoges (F) / offers an ideal opportunity to make initial contacts. description of how to get to Boisbuchet. We will gladly help to Norway Says (N) The workshop begins on Monday morning following a tour of organize lifts for people coming from similar directions. s 2008 09.07. - 19.07. / 13.07. - 19.07. the country estate. After an introduction to the topic, initial Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art (F) with Sam Baron / ideas will be developed, sketches drawn and materials Fees Fabio Novembre (I) chosen. Actual work on the projects will commence on Depending on the duration of the course, the participation fee 20.07. - 26.07. Tuesday. The results of the workshop will be presented on is € 685,- / € 1150,- / €1350,- for students and € 885,- / Friday afternoon. The program will be complemented by €1350,- / €1650,- for other participants. This includes: Ulrike Brandi (D) / Robert Kronenburg (UK) / Tomoko Azumi (UK/JP) lectures and social activities. The course ends on Saturday lodging, full board (incl. drinks at mealtimes), course fee and morning after a final group breakfast. materials: 27.07. - 02.08. Extra charges for: Matt Sindall (UK/FR) / Satyendra Pakhalé (IN/NL) Accommodations Transfer from Poitiers railway station to Boisbuchet and The estate was primarily established during the mid- back: € 30.- (return journey) 03.08. - 09.08. nineteenth century and consists of several building Jiri Pelcl (CZ) / Cul De Sac (ES) / complexes. Participants are housed in the "Dépendance", Single or double rooms: Harri Koskinen, Timo Salli (SF) the previous residence of the estate manager. Lodging is Supplementary charge for a single room per week: € 210 10.08. - 16.08. provided in spacious rooms, most of which have their own Supplementary charge for a double room pers/week: € 105 orkshop sanitary facilities, with several beds in a room. The rooms Beat Karrrer (CH) / Jon Otis (US) / Hector Serrano (ES) are simple, with a rustic charm. A limited number of single Inscription 24.08. - 30.08. and double rooms are available at additional cost. Please fill in the form you find on the last page or use our W Sevil Peach (UK) / Maarten Baas (NL) / online registration form you will find at: Richard McGuire (US) Board 31.08. - 06.09. The day begins with a generous breakfast of fresh www.boisbuchet.org Ricardo Salas (MX) / Sigga Heimis (IS) / baguettes, cheese, muesli, coffee and tea. At lunchtime Gala Fernandez (ES) / IED (IT/ES) there is a selection of cold dishes with patés, quiches and 24.08. - 30.08. salads in warm weather and vegetable soup, hotpots etc. if the weather is cooler. The evening meal consists of a starter, Sevil Peach (UK) / Maarten Baas (NL) / Richard McGuire (US) a main course and a dessert, accompanied by wine, beer 31.08. - 06.09. and water. The cuisine is international, the kitchens run by an Ricardo Salas (MX) / Sigga Heimis (IS) / Gala Fernandez (ES) / IED (IT/ES) experienced chef who uses organically grown vegetables from the estate whenever possible. We are happy to cater 07.09. - 13.09. / 10.09 - 21.09. for vegetarians. David Trubridge (NZ) / Paul Haigh, Corning Museum of Glass (US) Summer 11.05. - 17.05. 22.06. - 28.06. 29.06. - 09.07. Gilles Ebersolt (F) Marco Giunta (I) Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Limoges (F) www.gillesebersolt.com www.designi.com www.ensa-limoges-aubusson.fr Furniture making from Tensegrity and Bamboo packing material Go baroque, Go porcelain! This workshop will concentrate on the developments of self-supporting Cardboard can be employed in several ways; it is a natural, ecological, This porcelain workshop explores the art of the structures, combined with the constructive potential of bamboo for the completely recyclable material. It is resistant, cheap, light and it can be table - table decoration, tableware and table setting needs of scientific research in forest areas. customized and used for modular furniture. These features and, first of all, - as a means for staging the presentation of food. its inner strength, if properly used, suggest the possibility of turning a Imprinting, stamping and casting will serve as tools Self-supporting structures. Constructers and researchers have always been bidimensional cardboard sheet into product. Cardboard goes along different for the creation of forms; the colour white, the attracted to self-supporting structures and their outstanding benefits. Since aspects of our contemporary way of life: changing home, transforming our surface, the translucence present themselves as the 1950s, lightweight structures of this kind have been developed for furniture, having temporary offices, shops, place to work and live in. aspects of appearance. Objects will be generated design, architecture and sculpture. We often move and travel for different reasons: study, work, life changes. that fulfil a useful function but can also stand on This is why we need light, portable, changing, objects that suite to different their own as individual pieces. Bamboo. As bamboo poles are hollow, they measure up perfectly to the life contests. These objects are not supposed to be everlasting and structural and constructional preconditions of self-supporting structures. luxurious but resistant, easy to use, and beautiful, of course! Naturalized animals, game and fish will provide further sources of The Bambouseraie in Anduze will sponsor the bamboo. inspiration, as a repertoire of forms and textures for the production of unique individual pieces or multiple objects. The research on the creation of forms This workshop aims at giving insights into design processes and the Marco Giunta was born in Milan in 1966. He graduated in Architecture at will unfold as a course with successive stages: from the invention of forms challenges it poses to rational thinking, fantasy and technical expertise. A the Politecnico di Milano and completed a Design & Management Master at to the prototype to the firing of the porcelain. series of models will introduce possible structures, of which the group will the same university. In 1992 he began to co-operate with the furniture This workshop means to be an artistic summer retreat between "vanity" and construct one. The life-size structure and the presentation will take place at producer Zerodisegno and with the company Quattrocchio that makes baroque design. the Domaine de Boisbuchet (on the lawn or freely suspending in a tree…). exhibition setting up systems. He designed packaging, stands, and events. After the workshop, this structure will be transported to the Bambouseraie For more than 10 years he has been teaching packaging design in different For the fourth consecutive time, we offer a porcelain workshop in in Anduze and will be part of a seasonal exhibition. university and schools. Politecnico di Milano, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti cooperation with ENSA). Due to the high success of this workshop over the A supply of elements, such as bamboo poles, connecting pieces and di Milano, Universit? di Genova, are some among them. previous years, we are happy to offer two porcelain sessions for the 2008 cables, will be at the participants' disposal. He held workshops on cardboard material, furniture and packaging design Programme. Still in partnership with the National Higher School of Arts theme in Italy and all over Europe in several places: Politecnico di Milano, (ENSA) of Limoges, the participants will benefit from classes at Boisbuchet, Gilles Ebersolt Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, Universita di Genova, Facolta di a field trip on porcelain in the region and from using the kilns and the To reinvent the habitat or the workspace, to project them onto a dimension Architettura di Palermo, Fachhochschule Muenster-University of Applied workshop at ENSA. of jest - is this not a philosophy worth pursuing for our new lifestyles? Sciences - Germany, Design School of Gand - Belgium. In 1995 has founded the company Disegni with the aim to introduce design Gilles Ebersolt was born in 1957 in France. He studied architecture and and high-level planning in the paper industry. Disegni designs and builds Christian Couty studied Arts of Fire and has worked as modeling creative landscape design. Today he is an inventor who specialises in cardboard settings, display stands, packaging and furniture. for the porcelain industry. He was the ceramist in a project with Martin interdisciplinary architecture, from load-bearing structures carried out in situ Disegni works with different customers in several fields: Benetton, Fabrica, Szekely and has participated in several exhibitions in France and abroad. using all kind of raw materials. Garzanti Editore, Italocremona, Magneti Marelli S.P.A., Politecnico Di Since 1977, Christian Couty teaches at the National Higher School of Arts His architectural responses, incorporated into their environment, guarantee Milano. Reebok, Tele+Digitale (SKY TV), Telesistem, Zerodisegno, Pupa, Limoges (ENSA). the esthetical and practical pertinence of the works. His obvious attraction Biotherm, Wella, Dockers, L'Oreal, Mars spa, etc. for mobility allows crossing over the notion of foundations and authorize an Dominique Thebault was born in 1949 in Rouen. He is “artiste plasticien” adaptation of the most diverse supports in unexplored places: on water, in (sculptor) and has participated in several exhibitions in France and Protugal.