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Maëlys Dayre, a young French artisan designer, explores the boundaries between leather goods, textiles, and crafts with a rare sensitivity. At the age of fourteen, she joined Les Ateliers Grégoire, where leather revealed her first affinities. Her training continued with an apprenticeship at Louis Vuitton's Asnières workshops, where she honed her trunk-making techniques. Graduating top of her class at seventeen, she enrolled at the Duperré School, drawn to the interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum, where she further developed her skills in embroidery, hand and electronic weaving, featherwork, and Lunéville crochet. Her diploma, awarded with highest honors, marked the beginning of an independent practice fueled by artisanal mastery and creative curiosity. Based in Paris, Maëlys divides her time between her embroidery and featherwork studio and the Carnoy Workshops, where she continues to work with weaving and leather goods. Her projects blend art, design, and craftsmanship, from the creation of hybrid objects to lifestyle collections, such as Prémisse, where patinated leathers, woven salmon leather trims, and fragments of exotic hides interact in an elegant dialogue of materials and volumes. Each piece reveals her affinity for the sensuality of curves, the preciousness of the craft, and the valorization of materials, whether they be leather scraps or splits of exotic hides transformed into refined patchwork.
Maëlys Dayre approaches leather as a living material, sensitive to time, marks, and patina, and explores its potential down to the smallest fragment. Her approach is based on the construction of the material before ornamentation, seeking to minimize waste and reveal the richness of forgotten fragments. Through this approach, she transforms leather, textiles and embroidery into contemporary and narrative surfaces, where technique and creativity intertwine to create unique works, at the crossroads of intimacy and exceptional craftsmanship.