François Azambourg. It is truly the industrial dimension of the projects that seem to guide the practice of this forty-something designer.
Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have become in only a few years the new darlings of French design.
Matali Crasset. Undoubtedly, for Matali Crasset the function and the meaning of her designs have above all prevailed over the shape they take. Thus, very often, she creates objects which raise questions about our environment, at the formal border of several yearnings.
Odile Decq. The Odile Decq and Benoît Cornette agency has been developing over the last twenty years architectural and town planning projects in which notions of movement in the conception of space prevail and which have earned them a Golden Lion in the Venice Biennale in 1996
Elodie Descoubes et Laurent Nicolas Elodie Descoubes and Laurent Nicolas collaborated for four years and notably gave birth to the collection of "felt" seating.
Vincent Dupont Rougier. This designer first studied history of art and then decorative arts. For a few years now, he has taken an interest in questions relating to design of the environment, especially in vegetable materials, in gardens, which he regards as objects in their own right.
Eric Jourdan |
Jérôme Gauthier Jérôme Gauthier, a young designer of 35, founded his own agency in 2000 after three years with the Habitat design studio. He is a rising star on the alternative French design scene and is particularly interested in the relationship between users and objects.
Laurent Nicolas.
Jérôme Olivet With his recent designs edited by Domeau & Pérès, Jérôme Olivet seems to have taken a very different formal path from the one he had previously treaded, and yet… The author of a manifesto on sexless design, Olivet initially presented, in 1993, objects whose appearance strangely resembled that of human beings.
Christophe Pillet. Christophe Pillet created his agency in 1994, after having notably spent
five years in the Philippe Starck studio.
Andrée Putman Most certainly to be ranked as the Dean of designers,
Andrée Putman remains nonetheless active in the field of creation
and continues to tackle the architecture of interior spaces as well as
the design of new products.
Pablo Reinoso
Martin Szekely
Milan Vukmirovic Milan Vukmirovic, hailing from Yugoslavia, was one of the founders of
the Colette store in Paris. Artistic director and buyer between 1996 and
1999 for the Parisian concept store, in 2000, backed by Tom Ford, he joined
the Gucci Group as Design Director. |
