Thomas Dariel is a prominent designer from the interior design agency based in Shanghai, Dariel Studio. As the founder of Campus MaNa, he draws strength and inspiration from his family heritage as the great-grandson of a French furniture designer, grandson of a jazz musician, and son of an architect. With a background in French design, he came to China in 2006 to launch his own interior design studio at the age of 24.
He has earned recognition from the interior design industry and received several awards and accolades, including the French Design 100 in 2022, which rewarded his work and projects for Dariel Studio. Thomas derives his creativity from the various realms of design, fashion, gastronomy, visual arts, and luxury. His design philosophy is driven by a passion for breaking codes and stereotypes.
He has successfully extended his unique signature to product design, collaborating with renowned brands such as Cappellini, Lelièvre, Cire Trudon, and Leblon Delienne.
In 2016, while continuing his work as an interior architect, Thomas Dariel fulfilled a childhood dream by launching his own furniture, lighting, rugs, and accessories brand, Maison Dada.
In 2020, he was appointed co-president of the French Publishers within the Ameublement Français.
In 2021, his creations were acquired by the prestigious Mobilier National, marking his entry into the history of French furniture.
2023 is the year of the launch of Campus MaNa, a lifelong project for designer Thomas Dariel.
Erwan Bouroullec is a French designer born in Quimper in 1976. His studio is currently located in Paris, but he also has another space in the countryside in Burgundy, France. In 1998, he graduated from the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy.
Since 1998, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have been working together. However, they also develop projects independently. Together, they have designed numerous projects in various fields. The main publishers they have collaborated with include Vitra, Hay, Samsung, Flos, Kvadrat, Ligne Roset, Established and Sons, and more.
Many of their pieces are included in the collections of important institutions such as the MoMA in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou in Paris, and the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris.
Their creations have been the subject of several monographic exhibitions, including at the Design Museum in London (2002), the Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA in Los Angeles (2004), the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2011), the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (2011), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2012), and the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris (2013). The Philadelphia Museum of Art presented a retrospective of their work in 2021.
Numerous monographs have been published, including "Works" by Phaidon Press London in 2012.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have received numerous awards, such as the Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris in 1998, the London Design Medal in 2014, Best Designers, the Design Prize (official award of the city of Milan) in 2017, and the Compasso d'Oro in 2022.
Claudio COLUCCI is a renowned international designer who graduated from the School of Decorative Arts in Geneva and the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris.
He is a designer of international renown who has opened studios in Geneva, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Beijing. Since 2012, he has frequently collaborated with his son Fabio. Claudio COLUCCI's expertise encompasses three areas: furniture design, industrial design, and interior architecture.
He has worked with prestigious brands such as Christofle, Ligne Roset, the Accord Group, Alain Passart, Caran d'Ache, Vacheron Constantin, Habitat, Kenwood, Renault, Agnès B, Mövenpick, and Hermès. He has also collaborated with famous architects such as Philippe Stark, Ron Arad, Nigel Coates, and Pascal Mourgue.
Claudio COLUCCI has been named Designer of the Year multiple times at the Maison et Objet trade fair in Paris and by ELLE Decoration magazine. He recently received the first prize for arts and crafts in Switzerland. He has been appointed as an ambassador for the Michelangelo Foundation, which honors creativity and artisanal savoir-faire and strengthens connections with the design world.
Many of his creations have been exhibited in museums such as the Centre Pompidou, the Fondation Cartier in Paris, and the MoMA in New York, as well as in notable galleries. Two monographs about him have been published by the Fondation Cartier and NORMA editions.
Eager to share his knowledge, Claudio COLUCCI places great importance on education and is actively involved in leading schools such as HEAD and IPAC Design. In 2018, his eponymous agency changed its name to Colucci & Colucci Design and Architecture to welcome Fabio Colucci as a partner associate.
Visionary creator Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has anticipated what now constitutes the foundations of new creation: art and fashion, subversion, and collaborations.
His multidisciplinary work in art, fashion, and design revolves around a short chromatic range of blue, yellow, and red, with one of its most notable representations being the dressing of Pope John Paul II, bishops, and priests for the World Youth Day in 1997.
His clothing and art are imbued with his passion for history, the world of childhood, and Pop art. He has collaborated with numerous artists, including Keith Haring, Lady Gaga, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
His art is expressed through installations, performances, chalk street art, drawings, and paintings.
In 2015, he created a 3,700 square meter fresco for Orly Airport in Paris. In September 2018, he created a monumental work for the Biennale des Antiquaires at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Since 2018, he has been creating collections for United Colors of Benetton.
His artistic work is the subject of an exhibition titled "Le Peuple de Demain" at the Galerie des Enfants in the Centre Pompidou, which has been running from September 25, 2021, to July 18, 2022. On this occasion, the book "Dessins tout-terrain" featuring 500 of his drawings spanning 50 years was published by Flammarion.
In 2022, he is also present at the Mobilier National with the scenography of the exhibition "No Taste for Bad Taste," which traces 40 years of French design, and with a carte blanche titled "L'atour d'assises," centered around French styles.
Joost van Bleiswijk was born in Delft and graduated in Design from the Eindhoven Academy in 2011. Joost works mainly on his own collections, notably on the «No Glue No Screw» series, which has become a major piece in his work.
Joost’s collections are exhibited and sold worldwide in galleries and museums, including the Moss Gallery in New York, the Vivid Gallery in Rotterdam, the Holon Design Museum in Israel, and the Zuiderzee Museum in the Netherlands.
In addition to his personal work, Joost collaborates with major publishers such as Ahrend, Bernhardt, Bruut Furniture, City of Eindhoven, Design Connection, Lebesque and Moooi for whom he designs the Construction lighting collection.
After graduating from the Eindhoven Design Academy in 2000 and 2001, Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswij have been living and working together since then. Each working independently, the two designers develop their careers side by side but around a mutual and pronounced interest in crafts and historical objects.
In barely sixteen years, the creations of Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk have already won over the world’s leading brands and institutions. From the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the Moss Gallery in New York.
Kiki van Eijk was born in 1978 in the Netherlands. In 2000 she graduated with an honorary mention from the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her graduation project, the Kiki Carpet, inspired by an embroidery, attracted a lot of attention in the design world.
In 2001, she opened her studio in Eindhoven, which she continued to share with designer Joost van Bleiswijk. However, their work is almost always done separately.
Kiki van Eijk’s work is often very poetic and personal, and inspired by nostalgia and craftsmanship.
Her designs are mainly unique or in limited editions, and her works range from carpets, lighting, furniture, ceramics, glassware to textiles.
Her client list includes Studio Edelkoort Paris, Design Academy Eindhoven, Haans, Moooi, Bernhardt Design, Audax Textile Museum and Hermès.
Studio GGSV was founded in 2011 by Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard. Their collaboration encompasses a diverse range of approaches, from curating to research design, from objects to interior architecture. In parallel, Stéphane Villard leads the INFORME project studio at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, ENSCI / Les Ateliers, Paris.
They were awarded the VIA Carte Blanche in 2011 for their project "Objet Trou Noir." This research project, recognized by VIA, explored the use of "black matter" derived from ultimate waste and reinterpreted household appliances in connection with tableware and decorative arts, focusing on the concept of decluttering.
"Objet Trou Noir" is now part of the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou.
Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard have their works published by Made in Design, Petite Friture, and Galerie Cat-Berro. Their pieces are regularly exhibited at various venues, including MUDAC, Pavillon de l'Arsenal, FRAC, Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Biennale Design Saint-Étienne, Center for Contemporary Art Castle of Rivara in Turin, and the Milan Furniture Fair. Recently, they were responsible for the interior architecture of La Commune, the national drama center in Aubervilliers. They won the Paris Shop & Design Award in 2014 and, in 2016, they secured the interior redesign of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in collaboration with H20 architects.
They also serve as exhibition curators. They curated the exhibition "Form follows information" at the International Biennial of Saint-Étienne in 2015 and the exhibition "Zones de confort" at the Galerie Poirel in Nancy, along with Juliette Pollet, design curator at CNAP (National Center for Visual Arts). They were invited to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou and create a workshop-exhibition at the Galerie des Enfants.
Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard regularly give lectures about their work at various institutions and events, including the Centre Pompidou Paris, Université Paris 8, Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Cité du Design, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Maison & Objet, OECD, Ecole Camondo, and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
José Lévy was born in Paris.
In complete contrast to the codes of the time, which exalted the values of the 1980s, his clothing collections drew inspiration from Tati, Modiano, and Jacques Demy, ensuring him immediate visibility and international recognition.
He received several awards, including one from the City of Paris, and exhibited at the Cartier Foundation.
Over the course of 13 years, José Lévy established his presence in the world of men's fashion and distinguished himself as both an exceptional colorist and a precise tailor.
Simultaneously, he embarked on significant external collaborations, directing the style of Holland & Holland, Nina Ricci, Cacharel, and Emanuel Ungaro. Eager to reach a wider audience, he also collaborated with Monoprix, La Redoute, and André.
As a free and curious creator, eclectic and focused, he has always expressed his unique perspective by collaborating with numerous artists, photographers, visual artists, architects, and musicians throughout his career.
Since 2007, he has dedicated himself entirely to this interdisciplinary creative work, bridging the gap between visual arts and decorative arts.
In 2009, he exhibited at Emmanuel Perrotin (solo exhibition "Oasis: Luconoctambul!"), ToolsGalerie (group exhibition "Carpet Stories"), and the Manufacture de Sèvres (solo exhibition "Mousse de Sèvres"). He was invited by Maxalto during DesignersDays and designed MaPharmacie, a pharmacy in Paris-Bastille.
By expressing his universe, José Lévy enjoys unearthing memories, traces of the past, archetypes, and the roots of the Houses he encounters, playing with them and offering a free, distanced, and respectful perspective.
The Ateliers Poyaudins is a woodworking company operating in the furniture, interior design, professional training, and building carpentry sectors. It was founded in 2017 in Saint-Fargeau by Clément Chen. Shortly after, new partners (independent skilled workers) and collaborators (individuals undergoing training) joined the company. Thus, this artisanal enterprise operates on a cooperative basis. By the end of its third year, the company successfully achieved its primary professional goal: to exclusively work with wood. The focus for the coming years will be to establish a sustainable model of vertical integration of operations, from tree to finished product.
Tristan COLAFRANCESCO started his journey in photography, immersed in the punk scene from 2009 to 2011 in Brittany.
He then studied metal, first with a degree in metalwork with the Compagnons du Devoir, and in the company Metafer (a Living Heritage Company). Then came a second certificate, this time in artistic ironwork in Nièvre.
He gained experience while working at Heritage restoration companies, artistic metalworks, industrial metalwork, and contemporary metalwork companies.
In 2017 he created the Ateliers Cola, working since then with various designers on furniture, installations and custom-made objects.
His workshop is located in Avallon, at the gateway of Morvan.
Virginie Lagerbe, colourist-dyer, garden alchemist and creator of the Pérégreen workshop
After studying communications and political science, Virginie worked for many years in tourism development in her native Burgundy. Out of curiosity, she tried her hand at natural dyeing techniques in 2012 and discovered that plant-based dyes are everywhere to be found, hidden in roots, bark, wood, leaves or the flowers of the plants which surround us.
From that moment on, Virginie was driven by the desire to reveal the hidden colours of her environment. She was struck by the beauty of the results and by the fact that natural dyes produce different shades depending on the fibers used. This phenomena reveals unexpected, soothing and timeless shades of colour which, when associated ,provide us with a connection to the natural world. Each plant produces a color range that interior design can use to its advantage to harmoniously bring the garden into your home.
Training: introductory and advanced courses in natural dyeing with Magali Bontoux at "l'Herbier en couleurs" (Drome), a researcher dyer trained by Michel Garcia.
Heritage Prize awarded by the Institute of France (2019) at the Royal Abbey of Chaalis (61) for the work carried out in 2018 in Colette's childhood’s garden (Maison des Illustres) in Saint-Sauveur en Puisaye (89) and the innovative approach to gardens by Pérégreen.
Silver Ribbon Prize awarded by the jury of the Plant Festival at the Domaine de Chantilly (2019).
Creation in 2019 of a textile color chart revealing the colorful soul of Rosa Bonheur's castle’s park (Maison des Illustres).
Exhibitions and installations at the Victor Hugo Museum in Villequier in 2020 (Maison des Illustres) (76), at the Abbey of Boscherville in 2020 (76), at the Martainville Castle in 2021 (76) on the occasion of Flaubert's bicentenary, and at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris in 2023 (75).
Curator of the exhibition (2022) dedicated to the botanist-dyer from Rouen, Dambourney (1722-1795), proposed by the Saint-Georges Abbey of Boscherville (76).
Julie Richoz (1990) is a French-Swiss designer. After graduating from ECAL (Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne), she worked with Pierre Charpin as a project assistant.
In 2012, she set up her design studio in Paris where she developed her own style, imbued with curiosity and sensitivity, through her objects. That same year, Julie Richoz won the Grand Prix of Villa Noailles Design Parade (Hyères, France).
The designer participates in several residencies, notably at the Cité de la Céramique in Sèvres, as well as at the CIRVA (International Centre for Glass and Plastic Arts) in Marseille. It is an opportunity for her to exploit their materials and know-how. The fruit of her work was then presented during a solo travelling exhibition at the Design Parade 8 in Hyères, at the IMM Cologne, and at the Design Week in Paris.
In addition to her collaboration with Gallery Kreo, she also works with companies such as Alessi and Artecnica.
In 2015, she received the Swiss Design Award, as part of a major national design competition in Switzerland, organized every year by the OFC (Federal Office of Culture) since 1918.
Studied architecture in Paris from 1973 to 1980.
Project manager architect at Claude Vasconi's firm from 1980 to 1987.
Then at Aymeric Zublena's firm, responsible for projects such as the Georges Pompidou European Hospital, the School of Mines in Nantes, the university biology and physics campus in Illkirch, and the DASES building in Paris. Head of agency at Bouchet Neyraud Architecture and later at Michel Beauvais' firm from 2001 to 2004.
Head of department and director of new construction at Paris Habitat, a social housing provider, from 2004 to 2020.
"Allowing oneself to be transformed by the forest"
Experimenting or creating in situ, in the forest, with researchers, institutions... as I undertake in my work, is a way to free oneself from the idea of nature that is protected, studied, sanctified, or viewed as a work of art: the landscape.
In other words, a nature that has been distanced since antiquity, objectified and separated from the living. By building the idea of cohabitation, like reconstructing a biocenosis, working with the forest. Neither subjected nor dominated, but being alongside, with. But above all, seeking to be transformed in return, in one's own questions as a researcher, artist, in experimental protocols, in "modeling" techniques. Changing perspectives, acting in reaction. Ultimately, I hope to contribute to building a subject-to-subject relationship, which seems to be the only long-term response to the urgency.
Sara Favriau graduated in 2007 from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (studio of Giuseppe Penone). In 2014, she was awarded the Discovery Prize by the Friends of the Palais de Tokyo and the Best Installation Prize at the emerging YIA Art Fair. In 2020, she began a long-term collaboration with INRAe and biologists from the Mediterranean Forest Unit. Sara Favriau questions both the artwork and its ecosystem, its circularity. She evokes forms, symbols, and processes from popular nature and transposes them. A cabin, a canoe, a bow, a tree, voguing... are elements that are part of her formal and conceptual vocabulary. It is a meeting of past, present, and future that she has been developing for years. This blending is at the heart of her intentions: to intertwine metamorphosis, fiction, and essay in a simple form. Through essential actions, like a tree-canoe crossing a sea to find a forest. A work that renews itself and thus questions its status as a sanctuary (exhibition, acquisition), toward a possible status as a living being (evolving, replayed, transformed, altered artwork). A virtuous blend approached with humor, where the poetic form exists even in the titles of her works.
In 2016, Sara Favriau had a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo titled "La redite en somme, ne s'amuse pas de sa répétition singulière." In 2017, she exhibited in a solo show at the Château de Chaumont, Independent Brussels, and conducted a residency on "Arts and the World of Work" with the Ministry of Culture in partnership with CNEAI. In 2018, she participated as a guest of honor in the first Bangkok Beyond Bliss Biennale. In 2019, she participated in the French Los Angeles Exchange (FLAX) residency and took part in the first Rabat Biennale. In 2020, she was invited to Villa Noailles for the International Festival of Fashion, where she exhibited an installation of sculpted trees from a forest plot studied by INRAe near Marseille. In 2021, a tree-canoe crossed the Mediterranean Sea from the Salins des Pesquiers in Hyères, where the canoe was created, to the Carmignac Foundation on Porquerolles Island.
In 2021/2022, she conducted a residency with the Royal Commission RCU and French Agency Afalula, operated by Manifesto, in AlUla, Saudi Arabia. Her work is present in numerous public collections, including FMAC (City of Paris collection), FDAC Essonne, FRAC Normandie Caen, FRAC Centre, MAC VAL.
A designer based in Paris, Amandine co-founded with her partner Aïssa Logerot the AC/AL studio, where her practice is linked to design through the design of objects and furniture, for various fields ranging from industry to crafts and luxury (www.ac-al.com). Their work has been rewarded many times, and has been exhibited in museums such as the Centre Pompidou or the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. Some of their pieces are also in the MAD permanent collections.
In 2009, Amandine also founded the association i.d.o, conceived as a participatory platform, rich in a network of various skills put at the service of solidarity projects, and is interested in the development of artisanal production methods and living conditions of isolated populations. His latest project, a community water hyacinth-based floating vegetable garden, was supported by several foundations and has just been completed on Tonlé Sap Lake, Cambodia (www.ido-project.org).
Amandine graduated from ENSCI – Les Ateliers (2009) and holds an ESSEC certification on the Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship and the Evaluation of Impact Measurement (2020). She considers the creative process as an integral part of the project, and pays particular attention to the uses and interactions that flow from it.
Jacques Ferrier is an architect and urban planner. A graduate of the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture and the Ecole Centrale de Paris, he founded his agency in Paris in 1993 and has been working in France and abroad ever since. His projects are part of the same philosophy: design an architecture and a city for a creative and sustainable society.
Jacques Ferrier is the author of numerous articles and books on architecture. His work has been the subject of monographs, notably “The architecture of Jacques Ferrier” published by Thames & Hudson, London. Jacques Ferrier is Professor. He was appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit and Knight of Arts and Letters.
Pauline Marchetti and Jacques Ferrier have collaborated since 2008 with the creation of the French pavilion for the Shanghai World Exhibition. Since then, they have developed a large number of public and private projects, combining research and architecture.
Their work has been the subject of several international exhibitions, including “Impressionismus” at the Architektur Galerie in Berlin; “Non Oppressive Design” at DOKK1 in Aarhus and “A vision for the sensual city” in Shanghai, Beijing, Manila, Singapore, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur.
The Centre de design de l'Université du Québec à Montréal devoted them a monographic exhibition, “Entre-Deux”, in the fall of 2019.
They give numerous conferences, including at the Harvard Design School at Columbia University and at the AIA Center for Architecture. Their work has been published in a wide range of prestigious publications, including Arca International, Details, National Geographic, and Time Magazine.
Ruedi Baur, designer, teacher, researcher, citizen of a “World to Change”.
Since the 1980s, Ruedi Baur has been thinking about his work as a designer in the context of a civic space to be transformed. Initially working as a graphic designer for many cultural institutions, Since the 1990s, it has been organising a transdisciplinary education based on critical research into the design culture, informed by the practical experiences developed in its workshops.
Claiming an interdisciplinary design very early on, he created the Intégral network in 1989 and managed the workshops until 2023: Intégral Ruedi Baur, Paris, Zurich and Berlin, then Intégral designers. In 2004 he created and directed with the sociologist Vera Baur at the ZHdK in Zurich the Design2context Institute, then in 2011 the Civic-City Institute for Critical Research in Design; in 2018, the young 10-billion-human university company.
His Bibliography makes it possible to follow his path, notably with books such as «Architecture-graphisme» (1998), «Des-Orientation 1 et 2» (2008-09) «Signs for Peace, an impossible visual Encyclopedia» (2012), «Face au brand territorial» (2013), «Un Monde à changer» (2017) “And suddenly the world was immobilized” (2020).
Born and raised in Paris, Mathieu has started to study Biochemistry and bacteriology in high school. Then he went to Ecole Boulle and he graduted as a cabinet maker after 4 years.
During his learning process, he went to several workshop, such as Bernard Mauffret, Marc Desnoyer or Alexandre Fougea.
Mathieu worked for few companies in Paris and London (A.K.A Design), and it is in 2016 that he started running his own company, in Burgundy, known as M.A.C.
He makes furnitures, wardrobs, kitchens, woodenfloor, etc.
He fit is work in their places with a sharp attention to details.
As a child of a "jack of all trades", Mathieu knows the main knowledge in many fields of construction in order to renew houses.
Since the beginning of her career Sophie’s leitmotiv has been Creation. After 16 years spent in Shanghai in the Art & Design field, she now lives in Paris and continues to be a strategic partner for the creators and the Iconic Artistic houses.
From the Creative Industry key players such as Hermès Group, Chinese architect Wang Shu (Dean of the prestigious China Architecture Academy in Hangzhou), Puiforcat or Saint-Louis Crystal, Sophie has orchestrated with brio their communication in specific project developments.
They can be designers, architects or living heritage companies, Sophie has been supporting them for over 20 years ailing at building and promote their image and reputation to a well-thought audience – defining their brand positioning, setting-up the proper tools and transmitting self-confidence to her clients to always aim higher.
Sophie is also the head of Communications for the Design editor, Maison Dada.
She graduated from Paris X University in Communication & Foreign Languages with a Master degree in written & spoken Chinese at the Shanghai Normal University.
Raphael Cuir is an art critic and historian, holding a doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
After holding various positions at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at schools under the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (CCIP) such as Advancia and Négocia, he served as the director of the École Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Reims from 2018 to 2023. From 2012 to 2018, he was the president of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA France). In 2005-2007, he received a research residency grant at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, where he also taught at Otis College of Art and Design. He is the author of several books, including "Renaissance de l'anatomie" (Hermann, 2016) and "Anatomiquement vôtre, art contemporain et connaissance de soi" (Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2018).
He has edited the collection of responses to the question "Pourquoi y-a-t-il de l'art plutôt que rien?" (Archibooks, 2009, 2014) and the proceedings of the symposium "La Performance, vie de l'archive et actualité" (les presses du réel, 2013). He has also contributed to numerous publications, including "Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices" (Éditions des femmes, 2013), "Ouvrir-couvrir" (Verdier, 2004), and has written many articles for magazines such as artpress. He has organized and participated in numerous symposiums and roundtable discussions in France and internationally.
He is also an exhibition curator ("Ici Plus qu'ailleurs," 2019; "Prix AICA France de la critique, une rétrospective," 2015; "Chapeaux! Hommage à Robert Filliou," 2014). From 1999 to 2001, he was a co-producer, designer, and host of "Mémoires Actives," the first WebTV dedicated to the history of art and contemporary art.
Delphine Moreau is the General Manager and Partner of Dariel Studio.
Graduated from the Institute of Political Studies with a major in international affairs, she completed her education by a Master Degree in project management for the creative industry.
After five years working for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she set up a private organization dedicated to the improvement of the creative mobility in Europe and providing legal, financial and administrative services to hosting structures and professionals of all creative fields. During her ten years working experience in Paris and while running operations, she always kept a foot in the creation itself by managing artists-in-residence programs and curating visual arts exhibitions.
She moved to China end of 2008 where she started her collaboration with Thomas Dariel. Since then and animated by her passion for design, she runs the interior design studio where her expertise is in service of creativity. Delphine is one of the two Founders of Maison Dada.
In 2021, she is also leading the ambitious project of La Ma.Na (Les Manufactures Nationales), a Design and Crafts International Campus located in French Burgundy where Design and Crafts workshops will be interacting with Design & Crafts Training at the highest level.
A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Julie is a professor at the Cité du Design in Saint-Etienne. Dedicated to education, in Shanghai, Julie created three bilingual schools. Also a graduate of Helen Hamlyn Research, she has established dual degree courses, notably between ESADSE and Tongji University Shanghai.
To date invested in the creation of FABécole, a program that integrates regional businesses into the heart of the school, she is strongly committed to the preservation of the regional industrial and artisanal heritage. A major player in the creation of an active link between the FABlab, the materials library and the school, Julie wishes to put emerging talents back at the center of local production.
Julie is co-founder of the design agency WOKrea which appears as a design force in leading museums and art galleries around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York, the Museum of Design in London, at the Design Museum in Holon in Israel and several international design and art exhibitions.
Julie has led various workshops among others at Lasalle College of the Arts University in Singapore, Pratt Institute NY, Head Geneva, RCA London.
Gaëlle is a seasoned strategy and business development executive with a passion for sustainability, disruptive innovation and strategic relationship building.
Her experience combines 20+ years in the technology, financial services and sustainability sector, working for leading firms such as Cisco, UBS, Credit Suisse and Anthemis as well as start-ups and VC’s, where she held leading and global roles in strategy, innovation, business development and competitive intelligence. As a senior advisor and non-executive director, she currently
advises early stage and high growth technology companies in cybersecurity, sustainability and fintech, supporting their scaling and growth, embedding
ESG principles, raising funds from the investment community, planning international expansion and hiring top talent.
She is also an engaged supporter of charity efforts, including women leadership at the 30% Club Future Board scheme, sustainability as a trustee of 1001 Fontaines and entrepreneurship as co-lead of Fintech FrenchTech UK.
She is a Belgian and UK national, holds a MA in International Trade and Relations and Economics from University of Northern Colorado and studies International Relations at Colorado State University. She lives in London with her family.
Renaud Sermondade is currently the Europe and Middle East Vice-President and General Manager for the pharmaceuticals arm of the Aptar group where he is notably responsible for the largest industrial site of the Aptar located in Le Vaudreuil (27).
Renaud brings us a long and extensive business and manufacturing experience acquired in the industry where he successfully held senior management
positions within large international groups such as Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), Merck and more recently Sanofi.
Renaud graduated of the Ecole Centrale de Lyon and began his career as a Strategy Consultant at A.T. Kearney & Roland Berger Strategy.
Accustomed to working in diverse and multicultural environments, Renaud has spent part of his professional life in China and the United States.
Wolfgang, a graduate of the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a creative and innovative individual with a strong background in research and creation. He spent a year studying at the Karlsruhe Research Center, a pioneering institution in the field of robotics, before embarking on his journey in innovation, research, and design.
As the Creative Director of the hotel group èhotels-lyon, which comprises seven establishments in France, Wolfgang has contributed to the creation of 'Les Lanternes - Creative Retreat,' a 4-hectare natural domain dedicated to seminars and events.
With international experience spanning London and Shanghai, Wolfgang co-founded WOkrea in 2004 and has been developing visual identities for international clients such as Bank of Communications China and Jim Thompson Thailand.
Known for his deeply engaged artworks, large-scale public installations, mass-produced products, and limited editions, Wolfgang has received several international awards, including the Annual Furniture Design Award, Perspective 40under40, Winner of Visual Identity at the Museum of Islamic Art, and the Type Event Award by the Arts Council England. His work has been featured in numerous publications by Phaidon, Thames & Hudson, and Carlton Books, among others.
Marjane holds a professional certificate in youth education and popular sports, specializing in equestrian sports education. She has organized and led animation and teaching activities for a wide range of audiences. Prior to joining the education sector, Marjane collaborated in the management of high-level sport horses for national and international riders. She worked with Devoucoux, a company specialized in custom saddle design, as a technical advisor.
After spending ten years in the equestrian world, Marjane transitioned to the field of education. She now provides pedagogical and educational supervision to young learners within a local public institution for agricultural education and professional training. This institution serves as a platform for reflection and experimentation with techniques and methods aimed at ecological resilience, reducing the environmental impacts of agricultural activities, and promoting new sectors such as the bioeconomy.
Marjane is currently responsible for supervising and ensuring the smooth implementation of activities at Campus MaNa.
In 1992, the Radi Designers collective (which stands for Recherche Autoproduction Design Industriel) was born, composed of five members, all graduates of Les Ateliers School: Laurent Massaloux, Olivier Sidet, Robert Stadler, Florence Doléac, and Claudio Colucci. The collective plays with the gestures and typologies of everyday life.
During the 1990s, Radi Designers worked on projects as diverse as object design and space planning. They subverted the obviousness of everyday life through object-product-furniture-gadget hybrids. As emblematic figures of the new French design movement, the Radi Designers manipulate codes, uses, techniques, and forms with relentless inventiveness.
The members of the Radi Designers group met at the National School of Industrial Creation. Their individual and collective work led them to respond to various commissions and also to freely propose objects and scenarios.
In 1998, they held their first solo exhibition at the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery.
In 1999, they were commissioned to create an installation by the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art. The installation was subsequently presented in Japan and Seoul.
The Radi Designers were named "Creators of the Year 2000" by the Salon du Meuble in Paris, while they were also working on an exhibition scenography for the Museum of Fashion and Textiles. They also ventured into urban design by creating a public fountain featuring two silhouettes of women carrying water. In 2001, the New York gallery Sandra Gering organized a solo exhibition of the group for the first time in the United States.
"Bringing something to people rather than doing design."
Matali Crasset, a globally recognized French designer, combines art, anthropology, and social aspects in her approach to design. She prioritizes creating connections between individuals and their environment. With a career spanning 30 years, she has worked on various projects ranging from architecture to scenography, as well as the design of objects and public spaces. Her works are exhibited in prestigious institutions and are part of significant design collections. She deeply analyzes each project, challenging assumptions to reveal their creative potential. She values local resources, community participation, and workshops in collaboration with educational institutions. Matali Crasset is personally involved in every stage of design and creation, with a studio that promotes an individualized approach. She collaborates with the industry to create accessible design and promotes French know-how. She designs inclusive urban public spaces, welcoming living environments, and child-centered spaces focused on development. In addition to her design work, she is dedicated to teaching and knowledge transfer. Her approach integrates an artistic dimension, emphasizing creativity and aesthetic experience.
Teaching and knowledge transfer
Matali Crasset sees her role as a designer as being rooted in knowledge transfer. She has given over two hundred conferences worldwide, has been teaching at HEAD Geneva since 2010, and participates in numerous symposiums and juries.
Some examples include being a professor at ENS Paris-Saclay from 2017 to 2019 for the project "L'Atelier des communs" and a workshop at NID in Ahmedabad, India.
Where to see, read, and understand Matali's work
Rizzoli Editions published a monograph in 2012 tracing her career (in French by Norma Editions). Recently, Les presses du Réel published "TITLE," a book of drawings created during the spring 2020 lockdown.
France Culture has produced several programs, including a series of five recordings for "A voix nue" by Camille Juza in 2018 and a masterclass hosted by Arnaud Laporte in 2017.
A 52-minute documentary film was made in 2019 by Rémy Batteault, produced by Cocottes minute and co-produced by the Centre Pompidou for France 5.
Some clients
Alessi - Atelier Luma, Arles - Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea - Cent Quatre, Paris - Centre Pompidou, Paris - Consortium Museum, Dijon - CHU Angers - Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris - Crous - ENS Paris Saclay - Fondation Martell, Cognac - Frac Champagne Ardennes, Reims - Hermès - Ikea - Maison Berger - Manufacture de Sèvres - Médiakiosk / Jean-Claude Decaux - Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris - National Museum of Singapore - Power station of art, Shanghai - Philharmonie de Paris - Ville de Dijon - Ville d'Istres - Ville de Rennes - Ville de Genève - Ville de Paris.
Olivier Saguez, businessman-designer involved
For Olivier Saguez, “Design is obviously in the everyday usefulness. Useful to the people and to the planet.” After Interior Design and Art History degree from the Ecole Boulle, he started his career with the Franco-American designer Raymond Loewy. After co-founding the Proximité agency, a BBDO group subsidiary he managed for a decade, Olivier founds Saguez & Partners: an independent global design agency. “Design must change by becoming more frugal, economical, clever, 100% useful. And necessarily sustainable…” Pioneer in one of the first mixed-use eco-district near Paris, in the heart of the Docks de Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Saguez & Partners built its new Manufacture Design 100% sustainable design. There, the one hundred and thirty talents of the agency imagine and create the design of tomorrow. As a real incubator-lab to Work Differently and the uses of tomorrow, the Manufacture Design is part of a dual approach of sustainable development and social diversity. Open on the city, the building is crossed by an urban passage, which houses a restaurant at the foot of the building with three young entrepreneur and Design Act! master class co-founded with an international design school, to Learn Differently. Convinced that compagnies must be citizen and solidary, Olivier Saguez puts design at the service of his commitment, in educational, cultural and entrepreneurial actions, which help to strengthen social ties and support innovative projects. In 2017, he created the Saguez Corporate Foundation "Design for All", with the aim of democratizing design and putting it at the service of all, starting as close as possible in its two territories, Saint-Ouen in Seine-Saint-Denis and Arles in Camargue.
His culture: sensible, sensitive, useful
His conviction: design is not there just to look pretty! ®
His credo: an idea is worth it only if it is well executed.
She studied at the École nationale supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy, then at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
From 1983 to 1985, artistic director at Topologies – Publicis Conseil, she designed identities and institutional campaigns for ministries (women's rights, national education, professional training). In 1985, she founded the Polymago agency.
Juliette claims her practice as an attitude, which is manifested by the singularity of listening, of response and by the always questioned experience of the professions and techniques of graphic design. Her creations strive to compose words, images and signs to enrich the imaginary scope of the messages. Her approach tends to prove that the reality of an image is not only estimated by aesthetic parameters, but that it also comes from a social demand, a plastic thought and an ethics.
In 1991, after having created the identity of the national domain of Versailles, in 1999 she created that of the Musée du Quai Branly, then, the identity and signage of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, the graphics of the “Dalí” exhibitions. Center Georges Pompidou and “Cosa Mentale” at the Center Beaubourg Metz.
Since 2016, she has headed the LMpolymago agency, continuing her faithful collaborations with the national estate of Versailles, the Quai Branly museum, and urban development establishments. In 2020, she designed the signage and identity of the Auvergne Metropolitan Library and in 2022, the communication identity of “Nice 2028, European capital of culture”. The same year, the Louvre called her to design information around the Carousel restoration project in the Tuileries. In 2023, the national domain of Versailles entrusted him with the cladding of the palisade of the site of the gate of honor.
With her team, she offers a complete reflection on identities, editions, communication and signage. She designs graphic and semantic universes, adapted to each new subject. Her approach is based on his experience and expertise in graphic design professions, around consulting, artistic direction, creation and coordination of multidisciplinary teams.
Living in Saint Amand en Puisaye, in Burgundy, since 2008, she followed the training of Creative Ceramist and the Research of High Temperature Enamels at Ema-Cnifop. Established as a ceramist for around ten years, her workshop is located at the Fabrique, in the spaces of the former Mallet pottery factory.
Ceramics has been with her since her adolescence, but it was first and foremost as a bookseller that she began her professional life. A visit to independent bookstores confirms his attraction to the illustration and graphics of children’s literature. Various experiences of support and supervision of young people, children and adolescents will follow. With strong associative experiences, Sofi is gradually developing a training proposal based on experimentation and the poetic expression of the earth medium. Not being a turner, her work begins with a search for random or organic forms. Currently, it is a stoneware and porcelain tableware as if taken from a quick sketch where, in the attention to detail, the handle is sometimes crude and precious or small and useless. A fly invites itself to the edge of the plate, Sofi reveals a poetic and amused approach to detail, loves what disturbs and shakes us up.
Erica Dorn is a London-based graphic designer who has worked in film and television for over 8 years, with experience designing brands and visual identities.
Erica Dorn has worked with Wes Anderson since his animated film "Isle of Dogs" ("The French Dispatch", "Asteroid City", etc.) and meticulously designs all the graphic and typographic elements of his films: signs, patterns, custom fonts , sets, vending machines, and more, drawing on spectacular historical research.
Estelle has been interested in biomimicry since 2015 as a lever for transforming our relationships with living things and a method of regenerative building design. After a year of bioinspired housing world tour from Kyoto University to MIT in 2016, she joined the Ceebios team where she co-developed the Habitat division, the Bioinspired Habitat professional training and the design methods of the bio-inspired building for project management for 6 years.
Estelle followed the dual architect-engineer course at Ecole Centrale and ENSA in Lyon (2014). She obtained the degree of Doctor in ecology and environment at the Musém d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris after an interdisciplinary CIFRE thesis in biomimicry on facades inspired by the skins, hairs and feathers of living things in 2021. Since 2023, she has shared her professional activity between research in biomimicry and the production of a cartoon report on biodiversity hotspots in South-East Asia.
The Commune Nature collective, founded in 2022 by alumni of the Nature Inspired Design master's degree at Ensci les Ateliers, trained in biomimicry and the management of sustainable projects.
The vocation of our collective is to use design tools and a detailed knowledge of social and environmental issues, to transform our ways of producing and creating society, taking into account planetary limits and human needs.
Inventive industrial designer, Alexandre Echasseriau combines artisanal know-how and design to carry out projects of infinite diversity. Trained in ornamental turning at the Ecole Boulle, he learned many techniques related to metals for three years. He then moved towards ENSCI Les Ateliers, in industrial design, from which he will graduate with the congratulations of the jury in June 2013. Revealed on the occasion of the Audi Talent Awards 2014, the designer surprises with his new and original collaborations reflecting his nature curious entrepreneur. A few years later, Alexandre Echasseriau was responsible for the industrial design of the general aviation division of the Daher company, a rich collaboration with internal teams which enabled his Tiny House project to see the light of day. Like his rolling or flying FabLab workshop, curious and observant, Alexandre draws on his childish soul and engages in a playful creative approach; evidenced by its projects for young audiences for the Center Pompidou, or its collaboration with the Breton company Seederal for the design of an electric tractor. Alexandre creates a link between past knowledge and future innovations and gives shape to science. He invites the next generations to expand their artistic knowledge, putting transmission at the heart of his projects.
Erik Samakh artiste plasticien chasseur-cueilleur
Erik Samakh est diplômé de l'ENSA Cergy. Professeur des Écoles Nationales Supérieures d'Art depuis 1989, il a enseigné dans de nombreuses écoles d'art. Il vit et travaille dans les Hautes-Pyrénées sur un territoire de 20 hectares devenu aujourd'hui un véritable laboratoire et conservatoire animal et végétal. Ce site dans lequel se côtoient abeilles, bambous, grenouilles et lézard verts est une source d'inspiration quotidienne, un espace de captation d'images, de prises de son et d'expérimentations.
Par la combinaison de technologies discrètes et de phénomènes naturels d’origine végétale ou animale, Erik Samakh invite le spectateur à être attentif à la nature, à se mettre à son écoute et à dialoguer avec elle.
En véritable pionnier des nouveaux médias dans les années 80 il est invité dans les biennales d’art, festivals et expose depuis dans de nombreux Centres d'Art, Musées internationaux et monuments historiques.
Sa démarche artistique s’inscrit surtout aujourd'hui dans des espaces naturels grâce aux énergies renouvelables.
UNE ÉQUIPE PLURIDISCIPLINAIRE
Biologie, chimie, architecture, ingénierie, urbanisme, design, management… la pluridisciplinarité, essentielle à l’approche biomimétique, est notre force.
Notre équipe opérationnelle est soutenue par notre conseil d’administration, nos sociétaires et notre conseil scientifique.
Jean-Baptiste Fastrez is a designer graduated from ENSCI with honors from the jury in 2010. He worked for 3 years with Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec before establishing his own studio in 2011. He now collaborates with various brands and publishers such as Moustache, Manufacture de Sèvres, Kvadrat, CIRVA, and Tai Ping.
He has won several awards including the Grand Prix du Jury at Design Parade 6 at Villa Noailles (Hyères, France) in 2011, under the direction of Stéphane Diez, with his projects "Variations upon an electric kettle" and "To-mahawks hair dryer." He received the Wallpaper Design Award for his vase "Scarabée" in 2015.
His pieces are presented at various thematic exhibitions at Grand-Hornu Images (Belgium), Mudac (Lausanne), and VIA (Paris). Recently, one of his creations was exhibited at the Trapholt Museum (Denmark) during the "Fetishism" exhibition organized by Lidewij Edelkoort.
Several solo exhibitions have been dedicated to his work, such as in 2013 when his objects were showcased at Galeries Lafayette in Paris, and with "Jean-Baptiste Fastrez x Moustache" at Villa Noailles in 2014.
Jean-Baptiste Fastrez's work has been acquired for permanent collections at the Centre Pompidou and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Villa Noailles in Hyères, and the CNAP (Comité National des Arts Plastiques). Since 2012, several pieces have been edited by Galerie kreo, including the "Mask" mirror collection, "Etna" coffee tables, and the "Egypt" vase collection. "Vivarium" marked Jean-Baptiste Fastrez's first solo exhibition at the gallery, presenting a set of eight furniture and objects subtly inspired by wild animals, displayed within the gallery as in a vivarium.
https://jeanbaptistefastrez.com/
Charles Kalt is an artist, he has a long practice of art printing. He trained at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg in the engraving workshop from 1973 to 1978. He was the founder and boss of the “Lézard Graphique” PME screen printing workshop from 1979 to 1984. From 1985 In 1990 he collaborated with the art publisher Antoine Graff and printed works by artists such as: Armand, César, Télémaque, etc.
In 2023 he created “c.k. éditions”, a multidisciplinary printing workshop and published Vladimir Skoda, Jean-Jacques Dumont, Nicolas Schneider, Adrien Jutard, etc.
From 1991 to 2023 art professor and head of the printed arts workshop at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg.
Lucie is a facilitator, trainer and teacher specializing in the transmission of know-how related to textiles.
She works in public and private organizations on French territory, but also in Europe.
Graduated with a Master's degree in creative practice from the Artez school in the Netherlands in 2020 where she specialized in textile repair techniques.
During her last year of her master's degree, she began her activity under the name We Made Together. The mission of We Made Together is to raise awareness and activate citizens and professionals to respond to the challenges of ecological transition in the textile industry and social transition. This allows him to channel his activist energy and his desire for change.
In 4 years, We Made Together has raised awareness among more than 800 citizens and professionals with around thirty workshops and courses per year.
After a master's degree in ceramic conservation-restoration and training in Japan with a master lacquerer, Béatrice Jacotot created her company Cérakin in Paris dedicated to restoration and kintsugi. This traditional Japanese technique is part of highlighting the object and its history, offering it the possibility of prolonging its existence while giving it a new aesthetic. Béatrice Jacotot has been practicing kintsugi since 2016 for tea and ceramic lovers, and also works in collaboration with ceramists to create original and unique pieces. She began teaching the Japanese technique of kintsugi in 2020.
With over ten years of media relations and five years of entrepreneurial experience, Shuya Amber Chen has forged a unique resume, rich in working experience with luxury brands and top domestic and international media. Posses a bright and bubbly personality that allows her to communicate with client, VIP and media relations smoothly. With her artistic and aesthetic eye and storytelling talent, she has achieved a lot in the fields of fashion, design, art and lifestyle. Living in Europe for several years have opened up new horizons for her career, with projects in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, USA, Singapore……etc. She is committed to be one of the bridges between East and West, building and maintaining the brand image of creators and gaining international reputation.
Aldo Bakker explores the senses, challenging perceptions between humans and objects. Despite their calm appearance, his works impose their own rules of interaction, seductive yet independent. A self-taught artist, Aldo Bakker drew inspiration from figures like Luigi Nono, Giorgio Morandi, J.M. Coetzee, and Carlo Scarpa, creating objects that tell their own stories. His unique works or limited series have been commissioned by prestigious brands and acquired by renowned museums. Aldo Bakker has received numerous awards, and his work has been widely exhibited and documented.
Pascale Riberolles worked as a stylist-colorist, designer, teacher, glassblower and finally ceramist. She synthesizes these various practices into unclassifiable work on the edge of the artist's object, craftsman's object, art object, and today claims her work as being the expression of contemporary decorative art.
Its dishes and plates are unique pieces made in France and in earthenware, richly decorated with hollow patterns which will receive the enamel colors before the installation of the transparent cover.
She thus organizes complex combinations of shapes and colors that respond from one creation to another and allow infinite alliances and complicities between each of the pieces.
If it is delicious to walk among the multiple influences perceived, the compositions are indeed the elegant, timeless and unclassifiable expression of the facetious artist.
Julie Briest, experte en couleur pour Ressource, vous invite à plonger dans le monde de la couleur et de découvrir l’impact qu’elle a non seulement sur nos intérieurs, mais aussi sur notre comportement, le tout en apprenant à créer des ambiances à l’aide de nuanciers, échantillons, lumière naturelle ou artificielle et autre cercle chromatique.
Jessy Travers, référant technique et formateur applicateur chez Ressource, fera le lien entre théorie et pratique en animant un atelier où les différentes techniques d’application de peinture, chaux et enduits seront abordées.