When contemporary design becomes art object
Monday 10 September —
16:00
- 16:45
The Talks
Description
« Collectible design » : here is an expression you can hear increasingly since designers have walked through the door of galleries. In this peculiar context, limited editions and special commissions support free creativity and avant-garde.
Nos partenaires : Mini
Participants
David RaffoulCo-founder - david/nicolas
Julien LombrailDirector - Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Oscar DuboÿJournalist
David Raffoul
Co-founder - david/nicolas
David Raffoul and Nicolas Moussallem have established a global presence since they set uptheir studio, david/nicolas, in Beirut in 2011. Their innovative approach to contrastingmaterials, along with their unique way of blending retro, contemporary and futuristic elements, gives their work a timeless aesthetic that translates to a wide range of projects, from furniture design to high-end bespoke interiors. David and Nicolas met at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, where they both studied for a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, going on to undertake Masters degrees at the ScuolaPolitecnica Di Design in Milan. After graduating, both undertook internships with internationaldesign studios, Nicolas going on to freelance for a year in Beirut while David worked as a designer at Fabrica, in Treviso, Italy. Since 2011, david/nicolas has staged several exhibitions and collaborated with established international brands. The duo’s “retro-futuristic” aesthetic is rooted in a wide range of influences, from Oriental geometry, to antique furniture, to robots, space travel and the music of Daft Punk. The partnership is built on mutual criticism, as much as encouragement.
Julien Lombrail
Director - Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Carpenters Workshop Gallery produces and exhibits functional sculptures by international rising and already established artists and designers going outside their traditional territories of expression. The gallery is actively involved in the research and production of the limited edition works exhibited. The choices are guided by the research of an emotional, artistic and historical relevance; a relevance that appears as an evidence. The gallery relies on the partnership of friends Julien Lombrail & Loic Le Gaillard. They first opened a space in London’s Chelsea in 2006 in a former carpenter’s workshop; which was followed with a second space in Mayfair in 2008. They then returned to their roots by opening a 600-square meter space in Paris in 2011 in the heart of Le Marais district, an address steeped in history as it was previously occupied by the Galerie de France for several decades. Carpenters Workshop Gallery | New York is the latest of the galleries. This new space confirms today the leadership and dominant position of the gallery in the international territory of art and design. In 2015 the gallery opened Carpenters Workshop | Roissy, a 8,000 m2 workshop for their artists. The gallery became the first to integrate a production facility dedicated to artistic research and development of collectible design and bringing together an elite team of artisans.
Oscar Duboÿ
Journalist
Based in Paris, Oscar Duboÿ is an Italian-French freelance journalist specialising in design and interior architecture. He continues to work with AD since its beginning, not to mention his collaborations with La Gazette Drouot, TLmag and his editorial consultancy activities for luxury and auction houses. Today, he is more interested in the interaction between art and design collections.