IN SUSTAINABLE FURNITURE
Saturday 5 September —
18:00
- 19:00
The Talks
Description
Whether it is NOMA (Nobles Matières), a high-end design house making furniture out of waste, or Dizy, which produces sustainable pieces from transposable elements of local waste, a new generation of committed design houses is combining design and sustainability.
Participants
Guillaume Galloy & Bruce RibayFounder - Noma
Clara Le FortJournalist
Sam BaronDesigner
Vianney SauvageCo-founder - Dizy
Guillaume Galloy & Bruce Ribay
Founder - Noma
20 years’ experience in the design and development of furniture, sales architecture, and experience design, first in the luxury industry at LVMH (Sephora, Louis Vuitton) and then at Philips Lighting/Signify. At the same time, in 2000, he co-founded, along with Jean-Marc Gady, the “Square G” agency, which would become “Jean-Marc Gady Design”. Guillaume has spent his entire career in a dialogue between the worlds of industry and design. He is in charge of marketing, development, finance, and operations.
Clara Le Fort
Journalist
A writer for French and international publications (Les Echos WE, Le Point, ELLE, ELLE DECO, Bllnr), Clara Le Fort deals with subjects related to luxury, innovation and sustainable development. She also works with brands on strategic matters, as a design director. In addition, she has authored five books, published by Gestalten, and has written the Louis Vuitton City Guide for Sydney, Istanbul, Copenhagen and Arles.
Sam Baron
Designer
Born in France, Sam Baron has a degree in Design from the Fine Arts School of Saint Etienne and a post-graduate degree from the National Decorative Arts School of Paris. Baron loves to reinterpret traditional methods of construction, raising questions about the utility of today's material productions. He creates products, exhibition and interior design projects, giving life to cross-over works mixing art and design. He is an independent designer and consultant for international companies such as Louis Vuitton, La Redoute, Vista Alegre and the French liquor brand Hennessy. He has been consultant as Design director for Fabrica, the international communication research center based in Italy, during a decade. In 2009 Baron received the "Grand Prix de la Creation de la Ville de Paris" in the design category and in 2010 Philippe Starck selected him as one of the ten important designers of the next decade. Recently sam has been awarded with the special PAD paris fair price. Sam Baron currently lives and works between Portugal and France where he recently took part of the think tank platform Thinkers&Doers.
Vianney Sauvage
Co-founder - Dizy
A graduate of 3A and ESSEC, Vianney moved around and worked for a variety of international NGOs - CARE, Pharmaciens Sans Frontières, etc., before heading to the World Forum for a Responsible Economy. With total dedication, he founded DIZY with Augustin Poncelet in a desire to durably transform the way workspace furniture is designed and purchased. “Nothing is lost. Nothing is created. Everything is transformed.” – A.Lavoisier