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French designer born in 1965 in Chalon in Champagne.
A graduate of ENSCI (Paris) in 1991, she worked in Milan with designer Denis Santachiara then for Philippe Starck. She is chief designer for Thomson in 1994. then founded his own agency in 1998 in Paris.
His work rejects the pure form and is conceived as a research movement. It messes up our rituals of life.
She has received numerous awards including the Grand Prize design of the vile de Paris.
His creations are part of numerous public collections including that of the MOMA in New York's Grand Hornu in Belgium and the Paris Museum of Modern Art, the FNAC, the Center Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the National Furniture or Manufacture des Gobelins.
"Practicing the wry humor, she invites us to deconditioning of our obsessions, making us take a bath for a canopy bed or a table for Anne Marie Smith in" What is design "(Beaux Arts Magazine 2004).
AMONG HIS MANY ACHIEVEMENTS AND EXHIBITIONS (selection):
2008 Mirrors Spline and Alice in wonderland.
2006 Exhibitions in Milan, New York and Amsterdam
2005 Exhibitions in Bologna and Milan.
2004 Evolute lamp, armchair decompression space, chandelier Sky. Exhibitions Espace Paul Ricard in Paris, Shanghai, Milan, Stockholm and Prague.
2003 Hi Hotel in Nice. Exhibitions Grand Hornu (Belgium), the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, French Institute of Prague.
2002 Sunic fragrance diffuser, glass carafe and Omni. MUDAC retrospective at Lausanne (Switzerland). Fiedler Exhibitions Gallery in Cologne, Prague, Lyon.
2001 Lamp Lerace. Exhibition Galerie Valois (Paris) "Flat Flat"
2000 Brush Shoe Daily starting block, sofa Playground Building Permit. Exhibition Gallery Peyroulet "Objects transvestites"
1999 Exhibition in Berlin
1995 Radio Ici Paris, extra bed when Jim went to Paris.
1991 Museum of Decorative Arts
References for the artist:
"The 90s" by Anne Bony p.560, 567, 583 (Editions du Regard 2000)
"Design" by Anne Bony p.197, 212, 214, 223 (Larousse 2006)
The online catalog of MoMA in New York: moma.org
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