Contemporary Craft: reinventing the traditional know-how
Sunday 19 January —
11:00
- 11:45
The Talks — Hall 7
Description
Craft and design are breaking down barriers. These two activities are melting to create unique pieces or small series, to explore new ways of making. And they are even sometimes used by the same person…
Nos partenaires : MINI
Participants
Julie RichozDesigner
Wendy AndreuDesigner
Mathieu Peyroulet GhiliniDesigner
Olivier WachéJournalist
Julie Richoz
Designer
Julie Richoz (1990) is a Swiss-French designer. After graduating from ECAL, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, she started working for Pierre Charpin as a project assistant. In 2012 she set up her design studio in Paris where she enjoys with curiosity and sensibility to develop her own language through objects. Richoz has won the “Grand Prix” of the Design Parade 2012 at the Villa Noailles. She was a designer-in-residency at Sèvres, Cite de la céramique, as well as at CIRVA, international research center on arts and glass, Marseille where she was given the chance to explore the materials and the savoir-faire behind them. Besides her gallery work she collaborates with companies such as Alessi, Artecnica, Louis Poulsen and more recently Louis Vuitton. In 2015, she received a Swiss Design Award, which is the Switzerland’s leading national design competition organized annually by the FOC (Federal Office of Culture) since 1918.
Wendy Andreu
Designer
Born in 1990 in Oloron-Ste-Marie, France. Graduated Cum Laude from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2016 Wendy Andreu is a craft designer who aims to communicate through the materials she is using. By experimenting with them, she finds surprising outcomes that can be translated into functional design proposals. She is able to execute any idea that comes to her mind in order to check the potential of it. She likes to think of the bridges between matter, people and space in an open way. In her research, the context has as much importance as the concept, without forgetting the quality of the making and the aesthetic of the pieces. Wendy Andreu won the Public Prize of the Accessory competition at the Villa Noailles in Hyères (2017) and won the Dorothy Waxman Textile Prize in New-York City (2017). In 2018, she got a grant from the Stimulerings Fund (NL) in order to develop her project Regen. She is currently working in Paris XIX where she is developing experimental work as well as commissioned projects for public and private clients; mainly interior architects and fashion designers.
Mathieu Peyroulet Ghilini
Designer
Mathieu Peyroulet Ghilini (born 1983) graduated with honors from the Ensci-Les Ateliers school in 2012 with his Sophistication diploma. Based mainly on design and architecture history, this work focused on diverses interpretations of the sophistication of a shape ending with the proposal of four trestles. This research had been shown in the Design Parade 8 festival, in which he won the Grand Prix of the Jury. As a result, Peyroulet Ghilini was a designer-in-residency at Sèvres, Cité de la Céramique and at Centre International de Recherche en Art Verrier, CIRVA, in Marseille. The result of the one-year research with support of Villa Noailles were shown with Laureline Galliot work in Summer 2014 Design Parade 9, then travelled to Passagen Festival IMM Köln, Paris-based D’DAYS festival, Galeries Lafayette and Espace d’Art Le Moulin in La Valette du Var.. Peyroulet Ghilini is 2017 Villa Kujoyama Laureate in Kyoto with Laureline Galliot.
Olivier Waché
Journalist
A professional journalist for over 20 years, Olivier Waché specializes in the worlds of home, decor, design, and lifestyle. Working independently over the past decade, he collaborates with many magazines: Ideat, The Good Life, Le Journal de la Maison, Maison Créative, Résidences Décoration, Femme Actuelle… and more. A keen observer of evolutions in living conditions, he worked with le French Design by VIA on the composition of two books as part of the Domovision collection. In 2014, he founded WOC, a writing firm, which provides high-value content and advice to professionals: public relations firms, brands, fine craftspeople, and architects.