Designer’s Days 2011
Conversations
Part 1 The association’s Members
Introduction
Contents Designer’s Days 2011
First book
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Editorial / In good company by Alain Lardet, President
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Theme for 2011 / Conversations
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Programme of events
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New in 2011
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The Designer’s Days Association’s members
Second book
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Exhibiting Partners
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Design Schools
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Overseas Countries
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Institutions
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Round tables and Conferences
Edito
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Editorial / In good company By Alain Lardet President of Designer’s Days
Starting a new decade is a huge challenge after our exceptional 10th anniversary celebrated by the Association’s members and a loyal and large public, which was unfailing in its response to the last session of Designer’s Days. With the aim being to continue the adventure for many years to come, the wish which has guided the Association over the past few months is simple: to renew, innovate and study our action in greater depth so that our visitors have even more reason to attend our annual events so assiduously. This appears to be obvious, but, in practice, it has proved to be complex, bearing in mind that our initiatives are only possible through the strength of conviction and availability of our voluntary members and our partners, all key players in promoting design. For 10 years, Designer’s Days has played its federative role well. In 2011, we want to offer each category of public: professionals, journalists, amateurs, curious onlookers, a series of events which will give them complete satisfaction. That is why the theme for 2011 “Conversations” is of particular interest. Whilst maintaining that which has ensured the specific nature and success of our event – scenographies open and accessible to all – we have wanted to add to our programme by encouraging debate, because there is nothing more fascinating than discussing, listening to and learning from what others have to say. Design, out of all the types of creative disciplines which exist, fulfils this role as a catalyst for debate… After all, is a design object not the reflection of a conversation between a designer, a creator, a manufacturer, or an artisan? Also, as for all first steps in a (r)evolution, 2011 will be a decisive year for a further step towards a new form of event which will combine all forms of expression – debates, exhibitions and scenographies – which the world of design is able to cover. That is why, for the first time ever, we will not only be setting a date for you in June 2011, but also for the coming decade. In the meantime, we are open to all your comments and, thanks to the support of our Association’s member companies and partners, and the schools and institutions we call upon, we will continue to lead the Designer’s Days circuit towards its true vocation, that of offering a major Design Week in Paris.
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Conversations
Introduction
Theme 2011
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Theme for 2011 Conversations
Entering into conversation with a person, whoever he or she may be, means opening up to him or her as much as he or she opens up to you. It is the first step in a shared experience of enrichment, of a fruitful exchange, or a debate sometimes without any response, which, without question, will result in a new way of thinking or new ideas. Entering into a conversation with somebody means, at a given time, agreeing to combine your own experience with that of the person in front of you in order to bring this experience to a new level, often more accomplished, but sometimes not quite so successful. In all cases, conversing means mixing, blending, exchanging… It is quite simply inviting somebody to share a thought, escaping from isolation, exercising our ability to be a “social animal”. It often leads to the pleasure of seeing oneself grow and the satisfaction of being surprised to find common ground with a person and the joy of the resulting alchemy to which the encounter gives rise. This discreet pleasure produced by the intimacy of the exchange is one of the criteria – and the cherry on top – of what we are looking for in this gratuitous exchange, which is a purpose in itself.
*The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself; he who goes away pleased with himself and his own wit is also greatly pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyère
Through its ability to bring to life this dynamic of debate, design reveals itself to be a privileged channel through which conversation between people who do not speak the same language, or the same mother tongue, who do not belong to the same societies or even civilisations, are able to enter into conversation. The very notion of pleasure is never very far away when contemplating the beauty of a successful form, or, quite simply, in the endlessly repeated pleasure of using a much-loved familiar object which renders you a daily service. Usage is, in some respects, a sort of tribute, an
affirmative response to the designer. The object, the thinking involved in its form, its use and its durability is, in itself, a common subject of conversation at the start of the 21st century. A federative element between completely different societies, cities and customs, the discipline which governs our daily acts is starting to become a universal language, removed from time and fashion, which helps to combine inspirations from distant shores, or those found closer to home, in order to create objects which shape our everyday environment. Never talkative, design inspires conversation because its purpose often involves depicting an image, interpreting a message or revealing a creator’s vision through the hidden soul of inanimate objects. Design, recently identified as being a vector for economic development, is proving to be a bond for a certain form of social development, both the subject and the object of “Conversations”. The 2011 edition of Designer’s Days, by offering “Conversations” as the central theme of its circuit, will invite the public to visit the staging of interdisciplinary, multicultural and cross-generational dialogue. Concrete proof of the time or the country it comes from, the design object will be the fruit of blending, sharing and exchanges between the creators, sometimes artists, who have been invited to take part in the Paris design week. “Conversations”, enter, you are welcome.
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New for 2011
In 2011, as in every year, Designer’s Days reserves for the public many surprises which enrich the event by offering different stakeholders the opportunity to take their place on the circuit: Showrooms and shops which are joining the ranks of the Designer’s Days Association’s members and playing an active role in the programme’s implementation. Schools whose students’ work highlights a more experimental side of design. Museums, institutions and foreign embassies in France, which are confirming their wish to join forces with the Designer’s Days Association in its work to promote and develop the influence of design. Industrial partners and galleries which are presenting other interpretations of what furniture design production could be like. In parallel to these new venues on the circuit, the Designer’s Days programme is being enriched this year with a wealth of round tables, creative workshops, discussion groups and privileged moments of debate with designers and design firms, all of which sets the pace for these five intense days designed to (re)discover Design in Paris. (see the event’s programme p.6 to 7).
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The new venues on the circuit
The association is growing and is welcoming new members: Cappellini / Deco Design Lea Ceramiche / Gaggenau / Hermès / Puiforcat / Silvera Poliform / Silvera Wagram / The diversity of profiles of these design firms, creators, manufacturers, and distributors, shows that the central theme of the Designer’s Days Association continues to be organised in collaboration with contemporary designers. This selection criterion enables us to bring together within one coherent group leading lights from the worlds of furniture design, traditional names from the sector with all their know-how, and spokespeople from among the public who are the distributors.
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Les nouveautés 2011
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New partners for Designer’s Days
Designer's Day’s partners also form a rich and varied group which helps to give form to the circuit around the city by offering the public a programme of events in line with the proposals made by the Association’s members.
In 2011, there are some newcomers from the world of creation such as Artuce, a creator of light fittings; Gambs, a concept store developed by Herve Gambs devoted to the world of nature, or Made In Design, an Internet design leader which, in 2011, is developing its first creations, the initial prototypes of which will be exhibited on the circuit. There are also Galleries, with BSL or Edition Limitée. For the first time, FR66, rewarded in 2010 with the Designer’s Days Prize - Intramuros for the Dissemination of Design, will also be taking part in the event. Alongside them, other stakeholders and observers with a close eye on the world of design will be sharing their take on the discipline and opening their doors for a few days: Li Edelkoort, who will be staging Food Design, the architect Charles Zana, who will offer a dialogue exhibition between Michele de Lucchi and Andrea Branzi, and the all-new Silencio, a venue for culture and debate created by David Lynch, whose name is a recognition of this event placed under the sign of conversation.
Finally, this year, design is conversing with other disciplines and is inviting trades, crafts and decorative arts with Talents (Ateliers d’art de France), the Mobilier National, the Petit Palais and the retrospective devoted to Charlotte Perriand, and embassies (Israel, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Sweden) present on the circuit. Lastly, note also the great first for Designer’s Days, with the half-day Speed Dating event organised on the initiative of the VIA to enable designers and companies to meet and implement innovative and creative projects in the field of furniture design. Something never tried before in France, but an event which promises many new encounters and happy endings.
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Hayon Circus ! by Jaime Hayon
Nomade et transformiste * by Fabrice et Didier Knoll
Conversations entre Eau et Lumière * by A+A Cooren
The Spanish designer Jaime Hayon, a privileged partner of Baccarat, was behind the huge success of the “Crystal Candy Set” collection. This year, he renews this fruitful collaboration by presenting, as a preview, a series of porcelain and crystal boxes on the theme of the Zoo, which he stages as the arrival of a small naive and colourful circus in the ballroom...
Conversation is the first type of blending. And, to illustrate this, for Designer’s Days B’Bath is offering a reinterpretation of the space and functions of a bathroom, favouring moments from everyday life to be enjoyed alone or shared with others: monologue, dialogues, conversations with guests. The bath becomes a recliner; the washbasin an occasional table; the toilet an office chair. In the cheval glass of the dressing-tables which face each other, filmed conversations are repeated. The bathroom becomes a new means of locomotion; it is nomadic. Friendships have been formed and broken within their walls from the time of Roman baths to Ingmar Bergman’s travellers.
Everybody has at some time experienced the gentle sensation of water on their face, marvelled at the sun sparkling on the rocky slopes of a creek. Diving into water transports us into a world filled with bright light. In a port, the gentle highlights of the setting sun on the hulls of boats. At bath time indoors, a small insect invites itself to join in. For Designer’s Days, the A+A Cooren tandem wanted to recreate these emotions resulting from conversation between water and light, two elements essential to life. Light, water, sound and visitors’ experiences will participate in this conversation.
Broderie Flowers, Point Final by Lucie Bourreau, photo : Philippe Simon
Trompe l’œil by Lucie Bourreau, Lily Alcaraz and Léa Berlier
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In October 2010, Arte, along with the Municipal Council of Paris, launched a creation contest for young designers. The aim was to take a contemporary look at wall coverings and create a collection which would help to widen Arte’s creative proposals. In January 2011, it was not one but two prize winners who were chosen to start collaborating with the Belgian creator. Lucie Bourreau, a textile designer, offers to take Arte into a poetic world inspired by folding. Creating genuine visual surprises on walls, she reinterprets the principle of wallpaper by playing on visual effects and the perception of those passing the wall, even if they are not paying attention to it... Lily Alcaraz and Lea Berlier, offer a joint vision of wall coverings which combines volume and delicacy. Subtle patterns and effects of matter, their intervention promises to offer wallpaper a contemporary and smooth style. The two creators generate a graphic atmosphere which combines exceptionally with the modernity and comfortable impression of being in a warm cocoon. By offering visitors the opportunity to discover the creations of these three designers on the Designer’s Days circuit, Arte confirms its wish to open its doors to young creation. A very concrete way of responding to the theme “Conversations”.
Arte 6 bis, rue de l’Abbaye - 75006 Paris www.arte-international.com Press contact: S2H Communication / Capucine Burtschell T. +33 (0)9 53 37 44 89 / contact@s2hcommunication.fr
*Conversations between Water and Light
*Nomadic and transformist
Baccarat 11, place des Etats Unis - 75116 Paris www.baccarat.fr Press contact: Caroline Delaurens / Julien Guitard T. +33 (0)1 40 22 11 50 / caroline.delaurens@baccarat.fr T. +33 (0)1 40 22 11 18 / julien.guitard@baccarat.fr
B’Bath 108 bis rue du Cherche Midi - 75006 Paris www.bbath.fr Press contact: Aurélie Sassier T. +33 (0)1 53 63 17 05 / asassier@bbath.fr
Boffi Bains 12 rue de la Chaise - 75007 Paris www.boffi-bains.com Press contact: Agence 14 Septembre / Emilie Stofft T. +33 (0)1 55 28 38 28 / emiliestofft@14septembre.fr
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Conversations Savoureuses* by Mathilde Bretillot
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Conversation with Walt Disney by Giulio Cappellini
Confidences by Pool
Jeu de rôle ou drôle de jeu… Cappellini draws the inspiration from the enchanting universe of Walt Disney by creating works designed for the world of cartoons. A conversation between the reality and imagination or even between imagined objects and the world of dreams. By furnishing our daily life, the heroes of our childhood become our inanimate friends. A piece of decoration from our youth that we’re putting in our lives. Let’s keep our soul of child, our purity and simplicity… and let’s keep on dreaming of those wonderlands where the hero always wins. That is how Cappellini’s famous sense of innovation applies Disney’s magic, to bring to life a series of works placed on the verge of art.
If only they could speak, objects would have a lot of things to tell. They are silent witnesses of our existence and, just like friends, they are not to be chosen by accident. Some secret motivation guides us to a specific piece of furniture rather than to the other one; spontaneous or considered inflection, that expresses, even involuntarily, some part of ourselves. Individualities related to the arts, literature and fashion confide to Cassina the bonds with their favourite pieces of design. Face to it, they describe the affection and the nature of the relation that they maintain with the object. The words put on the daily conversation between the eye and the environment, as well as between the mind and the forms.
Cappellini 242 bis boulevard Saint Germain - 75007 Paris www.cappellini.it Press contact: Agence 14 Septembre / Livia Grandi T. +33 (0)6 64 38 11 43 / liviagrandi@14septembre.fr
Cassina 236 boulevard Saint Germain - 75007 Paris www.cassina.com Press contact: Agence 14 Septembre / Emilie Stofft T. +33 (0)1 55 28 38 28 / emiliestofft@14septembre.fr
Photo : Sophie Brandstrom
ConversaSon by Stéphanie Balini et Théophile Besson
The kitchen of feelings, the kitchen of ideas, the kitchen of emotions, the kitchen of sensations. The kitchen: a centre for incredible everyday experiences. “Conversations”: conversations are small tarts made with puff pastry and filled two-thirds with frangipane flavoured with rum, or an almond custard, and covered with a second layer of pastry followed by a layer of sweet icing. The top is decorated with tiny strips of leftover pastry arranged in a cross. According to the dictionary of the Académie des Gastronomes, these tarts were invented at the end of the 18th century and took their name from the title of a book on fashion called Les Conversations d’Émilie by Mme d’Épinay (1774). Conversations are small tarts of language filled two-thirds with feelings, flavoured with tender love and spicy venom, covered with a touch of good manners and a smattering of tact. The top is decorated with a few half-smiles and a watchful eye in constant motion.
The “Soundproof Domes” welcome you to whisper, confess, confide, hold forth, debate, declare, parley, philosophise... For this new edition of Designer's Days at the Bulthaup – Odéon showroom, the designers, Stéphanie Balini and Théophile Besson, combine their ideas to create confidential discussion areas. In the hollow of large, insulated spaces, visitors will discover acoustic comfort and well-being inviting them to conversations sheltered from all forms of sound pollution. The scenography is a product of collaboration with the companies Le Deun Luminaires and Domeau&Pérès. The European Confederation of Flax and Hemp is also a partner in this original project.
*Flavoursome Conversations
Boffi Paris 234 boulevard Saint-Germain - 75007 Paris www.boffi.com Press contact: Agence 14 Septembre / Emilie Stofft T. +33 (0)1 55 28 38 28 / emiliestofft@14septembre.fr
Bulthaup Odéon 14 rue Monsieur le Prince - 75006 Paris www.bulthaup-odeon.com www.bessonbalini.com Press contact: Gisèle Gaudissard T. +33 (0)1 43 29 18 17 / info@bulthaup-odeon.com
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Raconte-moi une histoire * by students from ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne)
Under the patronage of design, constructive exchanges continue between Christofle and ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne). A partner since 2009 of the Masters degree in Advanced Studies Luxury & Design, Christofle supports this creative challenge taken up with great enthusiasm by students from around the world. For the 2011 workshop, under the direction of Xavier Perrenoud, Christofle has entrusted students with a subject very dear to it: birth gifts. These objects in silver, laden with feeling, symbols of cultural and family transmission, accompany those who receive them throughout their lives. Traditional, even almost institutional, how can they be reinvented? How to maintain the timeless qualities of the matter whilst making it lighter and injecting poetry and humour into the creation? It was with great sensitivity that the students from Ecal took an original, entertaining and tender look at this demanding brief. The result: 14 unexpected creations, shaped with deliciously vintage nostalgia, the inventiveness of which recalls that these objects are very much a symbol of their times. These objects will be presented exclusively in the framework of Designer’s Days in Paris, and for some of them, manufactured as part of the Christofle collections.
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Conversations by Bruno Frisoni
Mega mix by Pierre de Gastines
Bruno Frisoni, a creator of outstanding shoes, reinterprets the theme of conversation. In a world of haute couture and high fashion, for Dedar, he creates… an exceptional object.
In the same way as a lightning strike, a material, a colour and a drawing reveal a new ambition, new territories. Everything comes together and desire is created! A new journey, a quest for excellence as the daily steps take shape. Chests are filled with rich fabrics decorated with spicy colours, muslin veils as light as air tattooed with ornamental designs, skins for the walls. But also jewellery, embroideries, woven cloth… Élitis entrusts the designer Pierre de Gastines with the care of mixing and staging its most beautiful fabrics. Creating dialogues, fusions and why not even frictions between them in order to give rise to the first spark which pushes us towards each other... filling us with sound, fragrances, colours and enchanting light.
Dedar 20 rue Bonaparte - 75006 Paris www.dedar.com Press contact: Agence Lorraine de Boisanger T. +33 (0)1 47 45 90 00 / agence@ldeboisanger.com
Elitis 35 rue de Bellechasse - 75007 Paris www.elitis.fr Press contact: Odile Servent T. +33 (0)1 42 88 24 08 / oservent@wanadoo.fr
Conversation en pointillés * by Patrick Norguet
The Waves and Lines collection is produced with Full HD Slimtech advanced technology, which enables a decoration to be printed on porcelain stoneware bringing out the material’s sensuality. The patterns are produced with a mixture of lines and marks which follow one another, interweave and overlap. First of all drawn by hand and then converted by computer, these marks produce a vibration enhanced by their colour variations. These ceramic panels assembled in a given shape produce a network, a framework of lines, favourable to conversation, dialogue, discussion. The scenography is called “Conversation en pointillés*” because it follows this idea of a constructive and communicative network. *Conversation in dotted lines
*Tell me a story
Christofle 9 rue Royale - 75008 Paris www.christofle.com Press contact: Tatiana Troubetzkoy T. +33 (0)1 55 27 99 61 / t.troubetzkoy@christofle.com
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Deco Design / Lea Ceramiche 17 avenue de Friedland - 75008 Paris www.ceramichelea.it Press contact: Massimo Sambiasi T. +33 (0)1 45 63 73 79 / deco.design@eureca.biz
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Conversations avec les chefs * by Anne-Sophie Pic
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Jeu de chaise * by Denis Montel
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Design speaking ! by Ferruccio Laviani Interstice by Didier Faustino
After several months of renovation, the Gaggenau gallery opens its doors again on Rue de Tilsitt, in the heart of the capital. This outstanding showroom welcomes visitors to an elegant townhouse decorated with great refinement. A true source of inspiration, the spaces have been completely redesigned in the brand’s image: constantly modern design, noble materials and an original scenography, in order to present the appliances in their very best light. And, because Gaggenau offers household appliances worthy of the very best Chefs, the brand has formed an exceptional partnership with Anne-Sophie Pic, the only female 3-star Chef in France. In the same way as this partnership, which celebrates taste, this new edition of Designer’s Days will give rise to a delicious conversation between recipes designed for the needs of each person and benchmark tools. The combination of knowledge and know-how, everyday skills, and a mixture of quality and reliability offer the opportunity to share a common passion for cooking. *Conversations with Chefs
With the opening in 2010 of its shop on Rue de Sèvres, devoted to the home, Hermès has shown its commitment to furnishings and interior decoration. In 2011, after returning to its roots by recreating the furniture of Jean-Michel Frank, Hermès has set its sights on the modern age with the creation of contemporary furniture collections which will be presented at the Milan Furniture Festival in April before their release in September. Among the designers chosen to lead the dialogue between contemporary creation and traditional know-how is Denis Montel, who has created “the” Hermès chair, along with Eric Benqué. Around this event, and for Hermès’ first steps on the Designer’s Days circuit, Denis Montel will be designing a scenography in the new Paris shop for the home, where he is also responsible for the interior architecture. He will create a “jeu de chaise*” to recount the pure obviousness of this chair lined with leather, the Hermès know-how which is involved, and the fantasy of the many different colours of leather which adorn it.
At Kartell, the icons of design speak for themselves. Colours, shapes and materials describe the field of innovation, creativity, glamour and joie de vivre. The collection made entirely in Italy by Kartell will highlight each element, which will be given free rein to express itself in a harmonious and coherent decor.
Through the theme “Conversations”, the 2011 edition of Designer’s Days calls upon a dialogue between cultures, voices and disciplines. For the occasion, the Galeries Lafayette is inviting Didier Faustino to take over the window displays of Lafayette Maison. An architect and artist, influenced by the cultures of France and Portugal, he has always been devoted to multi-disciplinary work which combines practices and problems. By placing himself in the interstice, he uses and abuses the different languages of architecture and contemporary art to create a dialogue and pass on his message. To the notion of “Conversations” between people is added the idea of a confrontation on an urban level. Didier Faustino’s work focuses on cities, recreating places which favour dialogue. Such simple exchanges are being lost in the speeded-up and virtual world of communication. Occupying the windows of Lafayette Maison allows him to attract the attention of passers-by and confront the street. The window display, an intermediate zone, is the perfect experimental territory for Didier Faustino.
Kartell 242 boulevard Saint-Germain - 75007 Paris www.kartell.it Press contact: Marie-Magdeleine Liberge T. +33 (0)1 43 25 47 47 / marie.magdeleine.liberge@gmail.com
Lafayette Maison 35 boulevard Haussman - 75009 Paris www.galerieslafayette.com Press contact: Géraldine de Friberg / Camille Domercq T. +33 (0)1 42 82 82 92 / gdefriberg@galerieslafayette.com T. +33 (0)1 42 82 87 27 / cdomercq@galerieslafayette.com
*Chair game
Gaggenau 7 rue de Tilsitt - 75017 Paris www.gaggenau.com Press contact: Agence DRP / Laetitia Aubert T. +33 (0)1 42 56 60 70 / laetitia@relationpresse.com Magali Petitjean / magali@relationpresse.com
Hermès Sèvres 17 rue de Sèvres - 75006 Paris www.hermes.com Press contact: Caroline Schwartz-Mailhe T. +33 (0)1 40 17 47 79 / caroline.schwartz-mailhe@hermes.com
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A.SIS by Amine Eon Amharech
“A.SIS” does not ask itself about the limits between things but questions the relationship between things. Architectural work which questions the notion of lines.
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Voca[lyse] by François Brument
The Maxalto Store invites François Brument to interpret the notion of Conversation(s), chosen as the central theme of the forthcoming Designer’s Days. Surrounded by the iconic elements from the Maxalto collections, the young designer has created an interactive device in which the public uses the sound of its voice to generate new shapes. These will appear in the cosy setting of the Maxalto Store which, in 2011, is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and will create a dialogue between the collections’ timelessness and futuristic forecasts. François Brument François Brument graduated from ENSCI / Les Ateliers in 2004 after submitting his dissertation and final year project entitled In-Formation, paradigme digital*. Since then, he has pursued his research on the potential of digital creation in the field of design: always working between digital and industrial production, he replaces computer programming with drawing to develop designs which are constantly changing.
Conversations with Afra and Tobia Scarpa by Constance Guisset
Au-delà du piano * by Michele De Lucchi
A look at the first collections by Molteni & C Dada
When a two-hundred year old name meets a great contemporary Italian designer, it gives rise to a wish to create exceptional objects together. Especially a piano consecrates an outstanding object combining lacquer and natural solid wood to highlight the harmonic aspect of the instrument. Au-delà du piano* becomes a line of outstanding furniture and gives its name to the scenography for Designer’s Days 2011. This collector furniture, both a display case and cabinet for art objects, presents the work of Michele de Lucchi realised by the Manufactures de Sèvres and Baccarat. Dialogues between designers and master craftsmen who possess a rare know-how, wood, bending, sculpture, lacquer, have inspired Michele de Lucchi as much as the history and culture of the Manufacture Pleyel, the oldest piano manufacturer in the world and the only one in France. A French Art of Life born from the Art of Command.
In the Flagship Store of the Molteni brand, a unique place designed by Afra and Tobia Scarpa in 1979, the Designer’s Days 2011 theme, “Conversations” has inspired another look at the very first collection designed by the couple alongside contemporary furniture. Transported from the Italian factories for the occasion, these unique items dating from 1971/1992 mark the start of a lasting collaboration between the brand and the architects of their time. More than thirty years later, the presence of these objects in one of the few Paris spaces created following the Carlo Scarpa tradition provides an opportunity to present furniture in harmony with an architecture offering a multitude of subtle details.
*Beyond the piano
*In-Formation, digital paradigm
L’Eclaireur Espace Sévigné 40 rue Sévigné - 75003 Paris www.leclaireur.com Press contact: Amine Amharech T. +33 (0)1 53 01 84 96 / amine@leclaireur.com
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Maxalto 43 rue du Bac - 75007 Paris www.maxalto.it Press contact: Agence MLA / Juliette Vallet T. +33 (0)1 53 24 99 19 / juliettevallet@mlapresse.fr
Molteni & C Dada 6 rue des Saints-Pères - 75007 Paris www.molteni.it Press contact: Laura Maifreni T. +39 (0)3 62 35 92 66 / press@moltenidada.fr
Pianos Pleyel 252 bis rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré - 75008 Paris www.pleyel.fr Press contact: Me 2 Us / Emmanuelle Rouffi T. +33 (0)1 55 80 10 44 / emmanuelle.rouffi@meusmail.com
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Fine(s) lame(s) * by Gabriele Pezzini L’intelligence des mains * by the R&D department of Poltrona Frau
300 m of thread, 60 springs biconiques, 19 kg of beech, 5 m of zips, 285 nails dressed in leather, 15 kg of hair, 20 m of belt of hessian, 10 m2 of the leather Poltrona Frau ® of course. And many other things. It is only a part of the materials which are the main actors of the live performance orchestrated in the showroom Poltrona Frau, 29 rue du Bac, on the occasion of Designer Days. Shop windows are transformed during five days into laboratory Poltrona Frau. Theatrical scenographies with a big visual and emotional effect. A conversation of gestures that the craftsmen hand on from one generation to another. Movements which emphasize an almost hundred-yearsold craft work, which is perpetually renewed to be for the diapason of techniques and modern materials. Four armchairs are put in the honor: Vanity Fair, incontested icon of the mark, Chester, timeless great classic, Regina II, contemporary version of the shepherdess and Willy, the synthesis of research and grace. Each of four installations presents a work shift of every product: the one who characterizes it or the one who emphasizes most the fitness of the craftsmen Poltrona Frau.
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— VS — by Trafik Dialogue de styles * by Elizabeth Leriche
In 2011, Puiforcat is joining Designer’s Days and revealing a preview of the fruit of “Conversations” by two experts. Returning to its origins as a cutler to celebrate the art of taste, Puiforcat, contemporary silverware, is creating a line of kitchen knives this year with the help of the Head Chef Pierre Gagnaire. Gabriele Pezzini, this line’s designer, will place design at the heart of the presentation for Designer’s Days, as he himself is at the heart of creation, an intermediary between ideas and the object. Thus, he also plans to pay tribute to the work of Jean Puiforcat. Extraordinary everyday objects, Puiforcat kitchen knives are a sensitive symbol of the interdisciplinary exchanges between the experts who use them and the experts of design. They are presented here exclusively before their launch in Autumn 2011. *Fine blade(s)
*The intelligence of the hands
Poltrona Frau 29 rue du Bac - 75007 Paris www.poltronafrau.it Press contact: Agence 14 Septembre - Livia Grandi T. +33 (0)6 64 38 11 43 / liviagrandi@14septembre.fr
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Puiforcat 48 avenue Gabriel - 75008 Paris www.puiforcat.com Press contact: Agence Lorraine de Boisanger T. +33 (0)1 47 45 90 00 / agence@ldeboisanger.com
Manufacturing techniques, uses and forms are three factors which interact in the creation of manufactured objects in general and furniture in particular. Their rapid development appears to have condemned traditional practices at the cost of more recent ones. But, today, we are observing a rebalancing of values: modernity is becoming less exclusive; it accepts, with pleasure, and even looks for, the presence of objects bearing witness to personal or common histories and enjoys mixing times and places. It appreciates the cohabitation between mass production and artisanat, synthetic and local materials, new and used materials, conformism and originality, fashion and individualism, sectarianism and eclecticism… It generates a contrasting culture which reflects our time, with a multitude of nuances which come together to create the secret society of our private world. For the occasion of the forthcoming Designer’s Days, Elizabeth Leriche takes at the word Conversations to weave silent chats through Roche Bobois’ different collections and teach us how this dialogue of style, a genuine in-house culture, is able to enrich daily life provided that the objects have character. *Style dialogue
For the occasion of Designer’s Days 2011, Saazs is inviting Trafik to design an interactive work within the space A GLASS HOUSE, a venue devoted to innovation in architecture and furnishings. The installation “VS” takes the form of a structure in luminous glass, Quantum Glass™, the elements of which define a volume. When it is lit up, the light creates graphic registers which, as they reflect each other, create an immersive space with infinite perspectives through which the spectator is invited to move. A sort of alphabet book of light, thanks to the tactile interface, which enables visitors to interact with the space around them, change its shapes, in order to create a heightened or reduced perception of the original volume. “VS” is a creative vision resulting from the fusion between architecture and light, a work which spatially recalls the thousand digital poems by Raymond Queneau. Thanks to the support of Quantum Glass™ (Saint-Gobain) and a cross-cutting vision of creation which combines avant-garde technology, poetry, ecological awareness and architecture, SAAZS is confirming itself to be a centre for forward-looking creation, a manufacturer of unique concepts, a privileged passageway between creators, technological innovation and the general public.
Roche Bobois 207 boulevard Saint-Germain - 75007 Paris www.roche-bobois.com Press contact: Agence MLA / Charlotte Rivier T. +33 (0)1 55 28 38 28 / rochebobois@mlapresse.fr
Saazs 4 passage Saint-Avoye - 75003 Paris www.saazs.com Press contact: Agence 14 Septembre Stéphanie Morlat / Emilie Reboul T. +33 (0)1 55 28 38 28 / emiliereboul@14septembre.fr
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Les Confidents * by Philippe Riehling, the V8 (Pierre Bindreiff & Sébastien Geissert), Nathalie Nierengarten, Patrick Neu, Thibault Algayer
In 2011, an incubator of designers started a dialogue on the theme of Elle with Saint-Louis… Elle is plural and unique. Elle is witness to all moments of complicity. Sparkling, intoxicating, excitable, but also gentle, delicate and rounded. Enigmatic, Elle invites questions, discussions and arguments. Always present, Elle knows how to entertain us, amuse us and lend an ear to our most varied confidences. Friendly, Elle gathers together, invites discussions and encourages ideas to be debated. Elle likes noise, laughter, loud voices, tirades… but also whispers and secrets. And, above all, Elle extols freedom of speech… *Confidants
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Un designer, un photographe * by Jeannette Montgomery-Barron and Martine Bedin
Jeannette Montgomery-Barron photographs still lives. Martine Bedin draws a vase. Their respective work is found in Sèvres, around an original project in which photographs are hand-painted on to the sides of the vase. The photograph gives the object its meaning, its usage and its initial function. “Today, most vases sit on tables without any flowers in them. Putting the photo of a flower at the heart of the object is like including the memory of its forgotten dignity. The object’s dignity is to carry out its mission” explains Martine Bedin. It is to this original conversation between a designer and a photographer that Sèvres invites the public and collectors. As obvious as it appears to be, the project will be revealed in a scenography by Martine Bedin and a master of light, with its own share of shade. *A designer, a photographer
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L’art en regard * by Grégoire Alexandre
Five icons by B&B Italia, five photographers, five encounters. As many conversations woven between design and art, immortalised in five photographs taken following the 5 themes chosen by Case da Abitare in order to explore the specific qualities of B&B Italia. Signed by Adrian Gaut, Coppi and Barbieri, Grégoire Alexandre, Dean Kaufman and Tom Mannion, these works will dialogue with their “models” selected from among the brand’s icons during the next session of Designer’s Days. Grégoire Alexandre signs a scenography in which the objects reveal themselves from surprising angles. A sensitive dialogue which helps to reveal how B&B Italia design goes beyond the framework of function and comfort, to achieve the pure emotion of form. Taken in detail, or in front of the huge backdrop of a city, turned into an improvised sculpture, associated with a contemporary work of art, or even caught in the half-light of a magnificent home, each of the photographs converses with the photographers’ imagination to produce these striking portraits. A dialogue highlighted by videos which, in the heart of the scenography, takes a behind-the-scenes look at the shots realised for the B&B Italia Portraits exhibition. *The art of looking
Saint-Louis 13 rue Royale - 75008 Paris Press contact: Agence Lorraine de Boisanger T. +33 (0)1 47 45 90 00 / agence@ldeboisanger.com
Sèvres - Cité de la céramique 4 place André Malraux - 75001 Paris www.sevresciteceramique.fr Press contact: Sylvie Perrin T. +33 (0)1 46 29 38 38 / sylvie.perrin@culture.gouv.fr
Silvera - B&B Italia 35 rue du Bac - 75007 Paris www.silvera.fr / www.bebitalia.it Press contact: Agence MLA / Juliette Vallet T. +33 (0)1 53 24 99 19 / juliettevallet@mlapresse.fr
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Pièces de conversation * by Maurizio Galante and Tal Lancman Dialogues métissés * by Patrizia Moroso
Muutologie by Brigitte Fitoussi
Le grand déballage Poliform & Varenna... du rationnel au démesure par Francesca Avossa *
Once again, Moroso is taking part in Designer’s Days at Silvera Wagram, the concept store which combines design and contemporary art. The scenography designed by Patrizia Moroso – the brand’s artistic director – will develop a conversation between the different Moroso products. The organic coexistence and hierarchy of opposites finds its harmony in this conversation between Patrizia Moroso and the designers. Through its ability to create a relationship within a scenography between contemporary art, fashion and design; but also to create a dialogue between the different collections and the equally varied artistic, cultural, linguistic and geographic sources, the scenography illustrates the importance of diversity for the brand.
In a dialogue with 20 th century masters, a new generation of Nordic creators perpetuates, and updates, the myth of Scandinavian design. “What you have inherited from your fathers, acquire it in order to make it your own” said Goethe. Designer’s Days 2011 are a pretext for words and transcultural exchanges. From Copenhagen to Paris, ways of life converse: transmissions and mutations are on the programme. Ever attentive, Silvera invites to its beautiful space on Avenue Wagram, the young Danish company Muuto, in order to present its objects and furniture with the help of a scenographic play which offers a glimpse into their relationship. Inspired by the Finnish word meaning “new perspectives”, Muuto presents the energy-packed creations of about thirty young Swedish, Danish or Finnish designers, those whom it refers to as the New Nordic. Decoding of a joyous lifestyle rather than an intimidating manifesto, this exhibition highlights news ways of occupying space. It reveals everyday, beautiful, inventive, colourful and accessible design which always pays attention to the environment in pure Viking tradition, a design very much anchored in today’s world but with a timelessness which flirts with innovation.
Poliform & Varenna will converse with lifestyles and different universes in a circuit scattered with small scenes which will transform the showroom into a different universe. A mixture of styles and shifting codes: the showroom will speak another language. Games, disputes, declarations, exchanged glances… The visitor will surprise the showroom’s imaginary inhabitants in unusual, burlesque, poetic and astonishing situations. An unusual presentation in which storage is always an implicit player.
*Hybrid dialogues
Silvera - Wagram 39 avenue de Wagram - 75017 Paris www.silvera.fr Press contact: Senda Baccar T. +33 (0)1 53 65 78 39 / s.baccar@silvera.fr
Tai Ping invites Designer’s Days visitors to discover its conversation pieces designed and staged by the designers Maurizio Galante and Tal Lancman. The visit is staged as an invitation to travel, an evocation of a journey through palaces and residences, symbols of distant shores, set in a trompe l’oeil universe. This powerful faculty of evocation will, without a doubt, be a source of wonder for visitors. *Conversation pieces
*The great Poliform & Varenna display... from rational to excess by Francesca Avossa
Silvera - Poliform 33 rue du Bac - 75007 Paris www.silvera.fr / www.poliform.it Press contact: Senda Baccar T. +33 (0)1 53 65 78 39 / s.baccar@silvera.fr
Tai Ping 30 rue des Saints Pères - 75007 Paris www.taipingcarpets.com Press contact: Agence APR / Alexandra Bennaim T. +33 (0)1 47 58 08 03 / alexandra@alexandrapr.com
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Opening of candidatures / Design category Audi’s first intervention on the Designer’s Days circuit
Benjamin Graindorge
Graduate of the ENSCI – les Ateliers in 2006, he’s one of the young talents of French design. His project “Domestic landscape” received a VIA’s financial support in 2007. Selected two years in a row for Design Parade (Hyères), he collaborated with Mathieu Lehanneur, RADI Designers and Eric Jourdan, before winning the Cinna and Audi talents awards contest, in the category of design in 2008. Between 2009 and 2010, Benjamin Graindorge is a resident in villa Kujoyama in Japan, where he continues his research of “everyday contemplation”. At the same time, he takes part in the exhibition “Drawing the design” at the Parisian Museum of Decorative Arts, where also his preparatory sketches are exposed. Back to France in 2010, Benjamin associates with the designer François Bauchet in order to create the general scenography on the occasion of International Design Biennale in Saint-Etienne. At the same time he continues his personal researches. He produces the vase “bloomingBless” for Cinna and he follows up with FloatingGarden – le LiguidGarden – for Duende Studio, two studies on aquaponic systems that are incorporated to the National Fond of Contemporary
Art in 2010. As a member of YMER&MALTA gallery, he accomplishes some unique works, such as ikebanaMedulla or asphericalSkyLight, two pieces directly inspired by his visit to Japan. Benjamin Graindorge navigates between research, edition and scenography. “I don’t want to define my work as a designer. I explore, I feel, I experience… and I’m discovering new aspects of my work every day”. Awarded in 2008 for his research on domestic landscapes, he converses one more time with the constructor who, once again, trusted him by charging him with a design of a temporary space during Designer’s Days 2011. The designer is going to present the winning projects of Audi talents awards, as well as Audi Q3 2001, a new urban monospace, on the theme of “Conversations”. “My conversation with Audi started in 2008. Since then our dialogue continues. Thanks to the grant that I was receiving, I could have developed floatingGarden and go to Japan. The design of Audi talents awards space was a logical continuation… My profession is made of enriching, surprising and generous conversations. To converse with someone means to respect the other person, his place and vision. Through the resonances, exchanges, my scenography will translate this spirit of Audi talents awards. A dialogue in a comforting space, protective and favorable to a conversation. Audi promotes those notions, my job will be to highlight them”.
Audit Talents Awards Press contact: Agence Shortcut RP Andrée Fraiderik-Vertino / Franck Richard a.fraiderik-vertino@shortcut.fr / f.richard@shortcut.fr T. +33 (0)1 53 58 99 51 / T. +33 (0)1 53 58 99 78
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by Morgane Legall Conversazione tra i maestri Michele de Lucchi and Andrea Branzi
Au delà du blog… *
An art and architecture enthusiast, on the occasion of Designer’s Days, Charles Zana stages a dialogue between two masters of Italian design, Michele de Lucchi and Andrea Branzi. His aim is to present an original aspect of their work: an approach to architecture and design presented by means of models and original drawings. This tribute exhibition, initiated by Charles Zana, will help to reveal to visitors a more poetic side of these two creators who have inspired generations of designers.
Cocotte Design is THE design blog that dedicates 100 % of the articles to the girls that matter in the design and decoration ; bloggers that bring about new creative and emotional look on this universe. It’s all about meetings and passions ; constant meetings of six young women, united in an instinctive way, by their complementarity ; having, as the point of common, the need of undertaking challenges, as well as a highly developed artistic sense. The idea of creating a blog, have appeared rapidly as obviousness. The necessity of sharing “favorites” and discoveries… And the will to support the women artists, having the same values : independent, they progress without having any preconceived ideas, with discretion and talent. They dare ! Cocotte Design, presents original creativity by posting a new note every week. Our intention: discovering new talents, generating an exchange and a dialogue. This year, the theme proposed by Designer’s Days, “Conversations”, obviously called us out. We are joining the event with the enthusiasm and we are convinced that it’s going to be a wonderful prolongation of the blog, occasion to talk about them (The Cocottes). Come to discover, during a whole week, all of those designers that are giving to Cocotte Design the sense of the existence!
Leg clamp by Causas Externas and Jean-Luc Soubeyras
15 designers 15 artisans 1 graphiste 1 critique 1 off *
An adventure begins… A new French light fitting designer reveals its first collection of products by young designers during these days devoted to design. An invitation to create a light object, which combines functionality and aesthetics, at the cutting-edge of the very latest technologies and originating from an idea between an industrial manufacturing process and the designer’s creative imagination. Artuce has asked the photographer and scriptwriter Morgane Legall to orchestrate the scenography for these different creations, the works of Gilles Belley, Philippe Nigro, Normal Studio (Jean-François Dingjian and Eloi Chafaï) and Stéphane Joyeux, give them life and organise them in order to encourage a dialogue between them for a rendezvous which will amaze you.
Since its opening in 2009, Merci has encouraged encounters between young design talent and the general public. By playing host to a conversation between creators and artisans, Merci hopes to encourage partnerships with manufacturers on the lookout for new energies. In order for a prototype to become a product, it is necessary to know how to initiate a conversation: Merci is happy to be able to facilitate such a dialogue for the 11th edition of Designer’s Days. The exhibition 15 designers 15 artisans 1 graphic artist 1 critic 1-off presents the prototypes of 15 artisans from the Rhone-Alpes region, which 15 designers have been invited to reproduce, to create a cosigned piece. Each team had 2 months to meet, imagine, design and produce the pieces, with the only brief being a size not exceeding 60 x 60 x 60 cm. The aim of this project initiated by Emilie Colin Garros, Philippine Lemaire and David des Moutis in summer 2010, was to promote a creation method based on proximity and to promote innovation within a framework in which dialogue between knowledge and know-how is facilitated. These exchanges in procedures raise questions about exclusive paternity and the influence of artisanat on design practices. The productions reflect a first approach to a limited production with a view to possible industrialisation. * 15 designers 15 craftsmen 1 graphic designer 1 critic 1 off
Artuce 9 place de Furstenberg - 75006 Paris Press contact: Marie-Magdeleine Liberge T. +33 (0)6 12 82 63 57 / marie.magdeleine.liberge@gmail.com
Association 210x297mm chez Merci 111 Boulevard Beaumarchais- 75003 Paris www.merci-merci.com Press contact: Philippine Lemaire / information@210x297mm.fr
* Beyond the blog… Charles Zana 13 rue de Seine - 75006 Paris www.zana.fr Press contact: S2H Communication / Capucine Burtschell / T. +33 (0)9 53 37 44 89 / contact@s2hcommunication.fr
Cocotte Design à l’Espace 13 Sévigné 13 rue de Sévigné - 75004 Paris www.cocotte-design.com
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Le design du Grand Ouest * converses with Dyson
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*Design & Delicacy Thursday 16 June 2011 / 3 pm-5 pm Cookery workshop in the presence of the Chef Cyril Lignac Saturday 18 June 2011 / 10 am-12 pm Cookery workshop Prior reservations only: ecole@cuisineattitude.com - T. +33 (0)1 49 96 00 50
Conversations autour d’un verre * by Vincent Collin
Echoing the discussions of the Round Table on 17 June on the theme “Ces machines qui parlent de nous”** – a forthcoming book by the journalist Anne Eveillard on the relationships we have with our household appliances – Dyson pays tribute to the Greater Western region by inviting Nantes Atlantique Design School to pursue these conversations with an exhibition on emergency design. Taken from work by 3rd and 4th year students on Design and Security, these proposals reflect the combats of the James Dyson Foundation for responsible design, embodied by the approach of the Nantes collective – Faltazi – the name behind the famous Ekokook, the prototype of which, financed by the VIA, will be exhibited at Eau de Paris. A teacher at Nantes Atlantique Design School and a contributor to Anne Eveillard’s book, Faltazi will take part in the Round Table on 17 June, which will also be illustrated by an exhibition devoted to emblematic objects… in order to fully understand the demand for perfection and effective technology, the desire for beauty and transparency and the need for “dialogue” with the objects which surround us.
From 5 May to 31 October, Eau de Paris is presenting Eau + Art + Design*. The bottle made with edible material by Azambourg, the Ekokook kitchen prototype (Carte Blanche VIA 2010) and even the rain collector by Olivier Gassies… a wealth of objects to discover at this new event at the Pavillon de l’Eau which highlights design’s contribution to all things innovative in everyday water usage. The exhibition presents different projects and objects which help to rationalise water consumption as much in the home as in the public space. A means of informing visitors about the problem of wasting water and pollution resulting from certain methods of consumption! *Water + Art + Design or innovation at the service of water usage
*Greater Western design / **These Machines which speak about us Round table / Friday 17 June 2011 from 9.30 am to 11.30 am Dyson Démo, 64 rue La Boétie - 75008 Paris
Edition Limitée Paris has produced furniture, light fittings and decorative objects designed by leading designers for 15 years. It enables the creators with which it works to produce exceptional pieces. Each model is the fruit of an encounter between Designers and Master Craftsmen. Each Encounter, in front of the forge, at the door of the oven, is brought to life around a glass of coffee. Every glass is the witness to overthe-counter discussions or romantic conversations. Sacred or commercial, it serves poison or intoxication. Shaped like a ball or with a stem, it invites you to have fun or to quench your thirst. These are just a few of the stories presented by Edition Limitée: blown glass, metal beakers or porcelain tumblers designed by Olivier Gagnère and Vincent Collin. With the object not being without use, Edition Limitée Paris will mark its vision of design open to creation of all sorts by inviting the Clos d’un Jour, the creator of an astonishing red wine from Cahors which is matured for 18 months in ceramic jars. In order to discover its creators and their know-how, Edition Limitée Paris invites you to the counter of an ephemeral cafe designed by Vincent Collin. *Conversations about a glass
“Water + Art + Design” / from 5 May to 31 October 2011 Eau de Paris, 77 avenue de Versailles - 75016 Paris
Cuisine Altitude 10 cité Dupetit Thouars - 75003 Paris www.cyrillignac.com Press contact: Sophie Ribault T. +33 (0)1 42 56 11 36 - sophie.ribault@cyrillignac.com
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Eau + Art + Design or innovation at the service of water usage *
Design & Gourmandise * by Cyril Lignac
The Chef Cyril Lignac welcomes Designer’s Days to his creative workshop. Designed by Studio KO, Cuisine Attitude is an open-plan 260 m² space in the heart of the Marais. This venue is organised around a kitchen designed by Bulthaup set beneath a breathtaking glass roof. A mural by the artist Philippe Beaudelocque, in pastel and measuring 10 metres long, decorates the entrance hall, while the mosaic by the Italian firm Bisazza plays contrasts with the Vitra furniture. Finally, the tableware is signed by Bernardaud, Christofle, and Laforge de Laguiole. The Chef invites visitors to discover his original workshop for two gourmet breaks. From preparation to tasting, these cookery lessons personify creation and conviviality.
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Dyson 64 rue de la Boétie - 75008 Paris www.dyson.com Press contact: Orlane Aquilina T. +33 (0)1 56 69 79 78 / orlane.aquilina@dyson.com
Eau de Paris / Pavillon de l'eau 77 av. de Versailles - 75016 Paris www.eaudeparis.fr Press contact: Dorothée Bompoint T. +33 (0)1 40 48 98 48 / presse@eaudeparis.fr
Edition Limitée 7 rue Bréguet - 75011 Paris www.editionlimiteeparis.com Press contact: Frédérique Caillet T. +33 (0)1 48 06 52 11 / infos@editionlimiteeparis.com
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Conversation(s) by Anne Xiradakis
An exhibition of objects to be cooked. An epicurean installation. Six ephemeral cafes to be discovered. A conversation led by Anne Xiradakis and proposed by Cendrine de Susbielle at the Espace Modem.
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Collective exhibition on the creations of Dominique Mathieu, David Dubois, and the stylists - designers Bless
Hosting Parasites by Kathy Ludwig
FR66 received the Prize for the dissemination of design awarded by Designer’s Days and Intramuros in 2010. For its first participation in the Designer’s Days circuit, FR66 is replying to the theme “Conversations” with a collective exhibition bringing together designers and artists with which FR66 has worked on several occasions. Among the creators contacted are the designers Dominique Mathieu, David Dubois and the stylistsdesigners Bless... The exhibition will bring together pieces which generate a familiar verbal exchange between individuals. It will involve existing pieces or pieces made especially for the occasion. Among them, the “extended” pullover by Bless, which, placed between two chairs, creates an environment favourable to friendly discussion. The exhibition will be installed on the ground floor of the newly fitted out FR66 space.
The BSL gallery is presenting “Hosting Parasites” by Kathy Ludwig, who was born in Germany in 1983 and graduated with honours from the Eindhoven Design Academy for this emblematic project on shifting borders between art and design. Human beings, their values, their relationships to themselves and to others are the central themes of her work. The three curiosity cabinets which form “Hosting Parasites” question the symbiotic or parasitic character of all human relationships, namely the structure between the giver and the receiver. Each of these microcosms contain objects in latex, ivory and porcelain to be tested, as well as a narrative context made up of texts and photographs which are both instructions, comments and the performative outline. A book has been published in 8 copies to accompany this collection by the gallery BSL. And, to be discovered at the same time, the exhibition “Rare vintage lights from the 1950s to the 1980s”.
Rituels * by Gaël Charbau
Artists : Ann Craven, Vidya Gastaldon, Markus Hansen, Alexandre Joly, Laurent Le Deunff, Théo Mercier, Alex Pou, Julien Salaud…
The exhibition Rituels* will present a series of works which, through their meaning, their method of creation, or their subject, show a possible contemporary celebration of nature. Built in the same way as an immersive circuit, the exhibition will offer a synesthesia-based relationship between the works through gestures, sounds, practices, or formal echoes which will invite the spectator to leave behind urban reality for a time in order take part – for the time of a crossing – in the ceremony. *Rituals
Espace Modem 25 rue Yves Toudic- 75011 Paris 2ème étage www.modemoneline.com Press contact: Cendrine de Susbielle T. +33 (0)1 48 87 08 18 / cendrine@modemonline.com
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Fondation d’entreprise Ricard 12 Rue Boissy d’Anglas - 75008 Paris www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com Press contact: Antonia Scintilla / T. +33 (0)1 53 30 88 02 antonia.scintilla@fondation-entreprise-ricard.com
FR66 25 rue du Renard - 75004 Paris www.fr66.com Press contact: Corinne et Maryline Brustolin T. +33 (0)1 44 54 35 36 / info@fr66.com
Galerie BSL 23 rue Charlot - 75003 Paris www.galeriebsl.com Press contact: Duende Studio / Anthony van den Bossche / T. +33 (0)6 10 84 27 48 / T. +33 (0)6 19 06 17 62 / press@duendestudio.fr Pauline Lacoste / T. +33 (0)6 17 67 41 37 / pauline@duendestudio.fr
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Histoires Naturelles * by Godefroy de Virieu
Intramuros, 25 ans de design, 150 portraits *
For Gambs, on the occasion of Designers Days 2011, Godefroy de Virieu is offering a discovery circuit. Plants meet animals, nature is embodied in matter, enhanced by trades from different horizons devoted to producing everyday objects. Godefroy de Virieu presents a collection of one-off pieces alongside prototypes of accessible, accurate and meaningful objects, which will be mass produced by Gambs.
Launched in 1985 by Chantal Hamaide, Intramuros, the benchmark magazine for international design, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. To celebrate this event, Intramuros is publishing a limited edition and numbered collector boxed-set of 2 volumes bringing together 150 portraits and interviews by designers published on the cover between 1985 and 2010. The leading lights of international design succeed one other (Achille Castiglioni, Ettore Sottsass, Gaetano Pesce, Vico Magistretti, Pierre Paulin, Enzo Mari, Philippe Starck, Ron Arad, Hella Jongerius, Patricia Urquiola, Konstantin Grcic, Naoto Fukasawa), as does the younger generation, spotted and presented by the review (Mathieu Lehanneur, Inga Sempé, Philippe Nigro, Paolo Ulian, Gilles Belley). On the occasion of Designer’s Days, Intramuros is taking over the showrooms of the association’s members in order to present this superb book to the circuit’s public.
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Matter of time (Question du temps) by Wendy Plomp (Collectif Dutch Invertuals)
The Gallery S. Bensimon presents the exhibition “Matter of Time” by Wendy Plomp from the Dutch Collective Invertuals which came together on the basis of the idea that a mixture of strong personalities is able to create an unexpected world. Here, Carolina Wilcke, Daphna Isaacs & Laurens Manders, Edhv, Juliette Warmenhoven, Julien Carretero, Max Lipsey, Mieke Meijer, Raw Color, and Bart Hess share their contemporary take on the 600-year old oak timber which was used for the foundations of the Eindhoven gate. Their viewpoints are expressed through images, objects, material, films and stories. Their research has enabled them to translate the values and symbol of this wood into modern objects inspired by the concepts of time and the material’s beauty. Sensitive to the notions of sustainable emotion and know-how, Gallery S. Bensimon has chosen to dedicate its space to their creations. This collection is a tribute to our heritage, recent or ancient, creative and productive, as well as an opportunity to promote the talent of young designers. It shows how the bridges between trades, dialogue between generations and between the designers of today are vectors for development and creation.
*Natural Stories
*Intramuros, 25 years of design, 150 portraits Intramuros, 25 ans de design, 150 portraits published by Intramuros, limited edition printed in 1,500 numbered examples. This publication has been realised with the support of: Pierre Bergé & Associés, Le Bon Marché, Fondation Hermès. Published on 5 December 2010. On sale in specialist bookshops and on the website www.intramuros.fr
Acknowledgements to the Eindhoven Archaeology Centre and the City of Eindhoven.
Galerie S. Bensimon 111 rue de Turenne - 75003 Paris www.gallerysbensimon.com Press contact: Agence MLA / Rebecca Hamou T. +33 (0)1 53 34 99 19 / rebeccahamou@mlapresse.fr
Issey Miyake has maintained an uninterrupted dialogue with all fields of creation. From friendships to collaborations, from exchanges to partnerships, design is what brings this passion to life, as shown by 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo, a multicultural research space on design created by Issey Miyake: “Design is in constant motion, meaning that it must never be caught in time”. We are joining the Designer’s Days Parisian circuit in order to celebrate the 10 th anniversary of Issey Miyake watches, products of a three-sided conversation: the Issey Miyake spirit of creation combined with the technological know-how of Seiko Instruments, translated by a famous international designer, different for each edition (Shunji Yamanaka, Harri Koskinen, Naoto Fukazawa, Tokujin Yoshioka, Ross Lovegrove, Yves Behar). The installation presented at the Issey Miyake store will reflect the treasures of this conversation through the eye of the new watch’s designer, the identity of whom will be revealed shortly.
Gambs 60 boulevard Beaumarchais - 75011 Paris www.gambs.fr Press contact: Agence MLA Presse / Aude Charié T. +33 (0)1 53 24 99 19 / audecharie@mlapresse.fr
Intramuros www.intramuros.fr Press contact: Quitterie Amiel T. +33 (0)1 42 03 95 89 / qamiel@intramuros.fr
Issey Miyake 11 rue Royale - 75008 Paris www.isseymiyake.com Press contact: Véronique Vasseur T. +33 (0)1 44 54 56 01 / veronique@issey-europe.com
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At Terres Nuages by Grégory Lacoua and Jean-Sébastien Lagrange
Terres Nuages, always listening to new emerging talents, presents in its showroom the projects of Gregory Lacoua and Jean-Sebastien Lagrange. Born in 1979, both of them graduates of the ENSCI school, the Workshops and Parisian Ecole Boulle (DMA in tapestry and in cabinet-making), they live in Paris. In the 2009, as the finalists of the Agora grant, they worked together under the name of John Doe and they presented a Selfcare® project on the occasion of Saint-Etienne Biennale 2010, display cases for the Ministry of Culture in 2009 – 2010 and the furnishing for the Assumption chapel in 2010. “The idea is to converge our particular opinions as regards creating forms by use of simple materials: paper, mural texture filling the space, all of those mixed and rejoined together and at their intersection point. On that basis, the dialogue between the creations of Gregory Lacoua and Jean-Sebastian Lagrange will not only draw up a common approach but will also shape the uniqueness of each of them.”
John Doe Studio at Terres Nuages 10 rue Filles du Calvaire - 75003 Paris T.+33 (0)1 48 87 70 37 www.johndoestudio.com
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Téléportissimo by Mathieu Lehanneur Concept Design & Lumière In the post office of rue Turgot by Élise Morin and Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves
In 2010, La Poste, partner-founder of Cité du Design in Saint-Etienne, proposed to the public a unique long-term project. Teleportissimo designed by Mathieu Lehanneur is a prototype of a service allowing everybody to send and to take away objects freely, without any logistic constraint. An object is placed directly in a box, without any protection such as wrapping, and then sent, teleported. The recipient takes back his object in another box. Once again La Poste makes magic possible by installing Teleportissimo in the middle of the Parisian design review. That system will constitute the beginning of the parallel event, leading the visitor to the next experience. This time in a completely real environment – the post office on the Turgot Street -, La Poste starts a project that integrates the design and the advantages of the client and mailman. That project of emphasizing, inspired by natural cycles, meets descriptive and physiological requirements of the users of that place. This project refers as well to fidelity of La Poste as regards three major development guidelines: the excellence of customer relations, innovation and long-term performance.
La Poste 20 rue Turgot - 75009 Paris www.laposte.fr
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Weeks Secrets partagés * by Esad in Reims 10 designers / 2 producers
Being accessible to all at all times. Sharing, being attentive to inquisitive minds and meeting the expectations of professionals, Made In Design has made its ability to be willing and able its personal trademark. For its first participation in Designer’s Days, the aim is to illustrate the “Conversation”, which, in design, is materialised by the creation of objects which are a result of dialogue, sometimes compromise, between designers, manufacturers and producers. For the distributor Made In Design, the term Conversations has even more meaning because, every day it is important to be able to support web surfers in front of their screens in a concrete and precise manner. With Made In Design ready to launch itself into another aspect of its business, by producing alongside partner brands or with designers, exclusive and innovative objects which reflect its lifestyle vision, the 2011 session of Designer’s Days offers it the opportunity to illustrate its exchanges with three key stakeholders in the discipline: the young generation through a school, a French and ethical producer, and a (several) independent designer(s). Made In Design offers each one the opportunity to take a design project to an infinite public, the first phases of which will be revealed during Designer’s Days. *Shared secrets
Miele, a privileged space for exhibitions and creativity. A field of expression for a new art of living, the Miele Gallery presents a universe of excellence and comfort in which design and technology blossom harmoniously through effective and innovative appliances in line with quality requirements. In the framework of “Weeks”, thematic events devoted to its latest collections, Miele encourages a meeting between arts and technology in this outstanding venue. For Designer’s Days, the Miele Gallery is presenting its new collection of washing machines and tumble driers decorated especially to highlight the effects of matter (lace, wool, tartan, houndstooth...), as well as contemporary fabric creations by designers. The Miele Gallery is also associating with this event creative workshops which will enable visitors to give full expression to their own particular talents.
Made In Design aux Salons Christofle (1er étage) - 9 rue Royale - 75008 Paris www.madeindesign.com Press contact: S2H Communication / Capucine Burtschell T. +33 (0)9 53 37 44 89 / contact@s2hcommunication.fr
Miele 55 boulevard Malesherbes - 75008 Paris www.miele.fr Press contact: Anne Lamoureux T. +33 (0)1 49 39 44 49 / anne.lamoureux@miele.fr
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At the Hôtel Montalembert by François Delclaux
For its first participation in Designer’s Days, Mobilier National is presenting a selection of seats at the Galerie des Gobelins, chosen from among the most recent realisations by the Atelier de Recherche et de Création, based on the drawings of Matali Crasset, Éric Jourdan, Francesco Binfaré, Salomé de Fontainieu... The “game” consists of unfurling a ribbon of seats, laid out head to foot following the model of a conversation chair each one with a common point with the one following it: shape, material, function, colour… even a paradoxical point, because a conversation is a way of confronting ideas, whether similar or opposing. Examples: a round chair followed by a round folding chair, followed by a folding chair. This ribbon ends with a knot, the loops of which are formed by seats associated 3 by 3 following the typology of the club chair. The “conversations” between the seats are paralleled by a dialogue: the one established with the tapestries presented at the Galerie des Gobelins in the exhibition “L’Éclat de la Renaissance italienne”.
Present on the Designer’s Days circuit for the first time, Résidences Décoration, the leading decorationdesign magazine, is taking over Montalembert, with an exceptional scenography created by François Delclaux. Terrace, restaurant and fireplace revisited especially for the occasion on the theme of Conversation. For the occasion, the number 100 Collector will be distributed throughout the left bank and a jazzy and laid-back “Birthday” evening will be held in a unique venue (private evening invitations only).
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Une mosaïque de mobilier * by Monsieur Christian Lacroix
Grateful Vanity by Kuntzel + Deygas
Known for its exceptional emblematic mosaics from Ravenna, Sicis continues to attract with its admirable know-how combined with cutting-edge technology. The wish to share experiences, innovative encounters and respect for Crafts has naturally led Sicis towards the iconoclastic and hybrid universe of Monsieur Christian Lacroix. A prodigy of fashion, a Jack-of-all-trades, cultured and highly intelligent, the designer exchanges, converses and transcends the incomparable magic of his outfits with entrancing and enchanting decors. As much as for clothes, the desire to create furniture has been with him since he was child: “I only like life which is exceeded by images, celebrated by words, made magnificent by decors” he says delighted by his relationship with Sicis and impressed by the imagination, open-mindedness of his fellow workers, “in which the field of the possible is without limit”. Monsieur Christian Lacroix understands that this daring and this energy have given to mosaic work an intense artistic and contemporary dimension embodied by the legendary Empress Theodora. With the creative alchemy in full flow, each piece of furniture illustrates Sicis’ constant commitment to its prestigious artistic adventure.
An original venue designed by David Lynch, open to the public for the first time on the occasion of Designer’s Days: From 16 to 20 June, the public will be able to: – Discover an exclusive preview of “Grateful Vanity”, an acoustic sculpture by Kuntzel + Deygas, comprising a pair of audio monitors containing original music composed by Roedelius. Contrary to the entire music industry, this installation presents music written only for this support, by a cult composer who has influenced some of the greatest musicians since the 1960s. – View in the Silencio movie theatre, films on architecture and design – Take part in three conferences on themes related to the venue: the role of the architect and the designer in the creation of a night venue with India Mahdavi – the creation of Grateful Vanity with Roedelius and Kuntzel + Deygas – the genesis of Silencio, with Raphael Navot, Domeau & Pérès, Thierry Dreyfus.
Kuntzel + Deygas, Grateful Vanity, picture by Moa Khalil
Jeu de kyrielles : Confidents et Indiscrets * by Myriam Zuber Cupissol
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*Game of litanies: Confidants and Indiscreet Opening times / from 11 am to 6 pm / no private viewing / Free access for the Designer’s Days public on presentation of the event’s programme.
The debates will be moderated by Cédric Morisset. Dates, times and booking conditions will be provided at a later date on the Designer’s Days website or will be available by e-mail: elena.giustiniani@savoirfairecie.com
*The mosaic of furniture
Mobilier National 42 avenue des Gobelins - 75013 Paris www.mobilier.national.fr Press contact: Veronique Leprette / Responsable Mission Communication T. +33 (0)1 44 08 53 46 / veronique.leprette@culture.gouv.fr Céline Mefret / adjointe / celine.mefret@culture.gouv.
Résidences Décoration à l’Hôtel Montalembert 3 rue de Montalembert - 75007 Paris www.residencesdecoration.com Press contact: Isabelle Magnin T. +33 (0)1 53 43 02 37 / i.magnin@smc-france.com
Sicis 41 rue François 1 - 75008 Paris www.sicis.it Press contact: ADC Communication / Alix de Chabot T. +33 (0)1 49 52 89 89 / alix@chabot.fr
Silencio 142 rue de Montmartre - 75002 Paris Press contact: Elena Giustiniani T. +33 (0)1 42 46 07 00 / elena.giustiniani@savoirfairecie.com
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De fil en aiguille * by Nicolas Stadler
Talents brings together objects, know-how and materials in a unique universe. The theme “Conversations” will help to establish dialogues between these creations. As in design, artisanat shows that, with the same basics, creators obtain very different results. This scenography will offer small scenes in which 2 or 3 objects will converse. It will help the public to understand the creative diversity of artisans. In order to bring together all these “conversations between objects” within the same network of the Ateliers d’Art de France, the scenography will create a common environment: a guiding line which brings the world of artisanat to life. This décor will allow the creations to glimpse each other and communicate, even if they are not in the same small scene. Historically “De fil en aiguilles*” referred to the world of couture which moved from one thing to another progressively. Today, this expression refers to conversations and, here, it makes an analogy to the passage from one work to another in the scenography by Nicolas Stadler.
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Design & Artisanat : Conversations under the direction of Marie Compagnon, Jean-Marc Gady and Matt Sindall
In dialogue with artisans referenced at the Ateliers de Paris, 3rd and 4th year students from the école bleue, accompanied by Marie Compagnon, Jean-Marc Gady and Matt Sindall, question history, materials, techniques and uses between respect and a desire to innovate. The école bleue also invites its design teachers to create an object of conversation between artisanat and design in the framework of this event.
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Causeries by the students of DSAA DPM / DSAA AI *
For the Ecole Boulle’s first time at Designer’s Days, the DSAA (Higher Diploma in Applied Arts) students are offering an exhibition focused on the transversality of disciplines. From object to furniture, from new materials to new services, from rehabilitation to urbanism, including landscape and scenography, many links interweave and open up questions on new practices today. Through different topical themes, the circuit presents the work of the students over one year. “Informal talks” presents a wealth of ideas and personal working methods, highlighting the importance of the role of the designer and the architect in today’s societies. The scenography, designed following different levels of interpretation, recounts these different approaches which come together around common themes. Organised around a space for debates and discussions, the exhibition is based on exchanges.
The School of Design
At Dyson / L’innovation responsable dans le feu de l’action*
In the framework of Designer’s Days 2011, the Nantes Atlantique Design School is offering an exhibition on the theme of design and security, a retrospective of 5 years of projects related to emergencies, security and prevention, in relationship with Innovation responsable (Responsible innovation), one of the school’s themes. This exhibition is based on a selection of final year projects by the school’s students, with or without the help of industrial partners. It will be the opportunity to demonstrate the relevance of a design approach in these extreme contexts. *Responsible innovation at the frontline
*Talk abouts by the students of DSAA DPM / DSAA AI For conferences see page 28 /
*From thread to the needle
Talents 1bis rue Scribe - 75009 Paris www.ateliersdart.com Press contact: Alambret Communication / Yves Mousset / T. +33 (0)6 08 60 31 45 / yves.mousset@my-communications.fr Anaëlle Bled / T. +33 (0)1 48 87 70 77 anaelle@alambretcommunication.com
Ecole Bleue à la Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt 9 Place Vosges - 75004 Paris www.ecole-bleue.com Press contact: Sophie Mallebranche T. +33 (0)1 45 89 31 32 / sophie@ecole-bleue.fr
Ecole Boulle à l’Espace Commines 17, rue Commines - 75003 Paris www.ecole-boulle.org Press contact: Géraud Pellottiero / T. +33 (0)6 23 53 51 32 geraud.pellottiero@hotmail.fr Blandine Delahousse / T. +33 (0)6 25 02 05 00
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Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique at Dyson 64 rue de la Boétie - 75008 Paris www.lecolededesign.com Press contact: Pascale Labé T. +33 (0)2 51 13 50 70 / presse@lecolededesign.com
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The School of Design
InfoRéalité * in partnership with EPFL+ ECAL Lab
“InfoRealité*” includes in the Designer’s Days circuit different prospective projects demonstrating the way in which design includes technology. The diversity of the projects offers an opportunity to see a new side of computing and of augmented reality. By giving objects the power to tell a story, express their values, “Give Me More” by EPFL+ECAL Lab, realised with ENSCI-Les Ateliers and ECAL, finds itself at the heart of the theme “Conversations”. Thanks to research conducted by EPFL’s Vision by Computer Laboratory, young designers explore the potential of augmented reality. They offer an insight into this media, which helps to give our material environment a new form of expression. This exhibition presents other projects resulting from testing and prototyping of “low cost” servers developed by HEDERA Technologies and “Ateliers sans frontière”. The students have designed projects based on the principles of sustainable development and open source. By recycling computer components and encouraging a “do-it-yourself” approach, they are targeting emerging countries in order to create low cost servers and are a part of dialectical Conversations between the North and the South.
The Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design* (ESAD) in Reims has the honour of participating in Designer’s Days for a second time. This year brings the opportunity to launch a collaboration, which aims to be lasting, with a prestigious partner, Made In Design – leading design online sales site. The exhibition will bring together work in which objects and furniture, graphic design and volume design dialogue, confirming the inventiveness of a young generation, stimulated by strong artistic teaching, as much as its ability to ask questions in order to structure today’s world better. This even will help to confirm the interest of a higher education body in meeting the public. In effect, although Art School is one of the very last places where utopia is still possible, sharing it means making it real!
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The Foreign Countries
Objets ordinaires * by Cecilie Manz
Young Israeli design Curators Ely Rozenberg and le Prof. Vanni Pasca
Using a few almost anonymous materials with archetypal functions, Cecilie Manz has created new experimental works for the Maison du Danemark exhibition. A new look at ordinary objects such as a trestle, a kitchen door handle, a bag, a pot, etc. produced in solid wood, paper, glass, textile and leather. A monographic exhibition marking the return of the Ambassador of Denmark to the Designer’s Days circuit.
For the first time in Paris, “Promisedesign 2011” will take an Israeli exhibition to the setting of Docks en Seine. The internationally famous designers and curators Ely Rozenberg and Vanni Pasca, have included in their exhibition thirty Israeli designers, including Yaakov Kaufman, Ami Drach and Dov Genshrow, Hanan De langhe, Shai Barkan, Ezri Tarazi, Tal Gur, Talila Abraham, Ayala Zarfati, Hadas Armon (from the D-Vion laboratory), Bekery, Gal Ben Arav, Mika Barr, Ofir Zucker and many others. The exhibition’s aim is to take stock of the different design trends in Israel: experimental design, own production, limited manufacturing, etc. Many designers have an artistic approach and prefer to create industrial products in an artisanal and traditional manner. Often, these processes have opened up the way to other methods of production. New technologies, as well as visionary solutions have been used to design a better life.
*Ordinary things
Saturday 18 June 2011 at 2 pm Guided tour of the Maison du Danemark Exhibition “Ordinary objects by Cecilie Manz” Reservations: jespet@um.dk
*Higher School of Art and Design
*InfoReality
Ensci Les Ateliers 48 rue Saint Sabin - 75011 Paris www.ensci.com / www.epfl-ecal-lab.ch Press contact: Licia Bottura T. +33 (0)1 49 23 12 31 / bottura@ensci.com
Esad de Reims at Salons Christofle (1er étage) - 9 rue Royale - 75008 Paris www.esad-reims.fr Press contact: Claire Peillod T. +33 (0)3 26 35 36 40 / claire.peillod@mairie-reims.fr
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Ambassade du Danemark c/o Maison du Danemark 142 avenue des Champs Elysées - 75008 Paris www.maisondudanemark.dk/ Press contact: Gitte Delcourt T. +33 (0)1 41 31 21 21 / gitdel@um.dk
Promise Design 2011 at the Passage de Retz 9 Rue Charlot - 75003 Paris Exhibition realised under the patronage of the cultural services of the Embassy of Israel Press contact: Ely Rozenberg / Industrial Designer T. +39 (0)6.9393.1433 / elyrozenberg@gmail.com Ziv Nevo Kulman / Conseiller culturel Cultural Advisor – Embassy of Israel T. +33 (0)1 40 76 54 89 / culture@paris.mfa.gov.il
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Ephemeral shop of Israeli design
Jeunes pousses suédoises *
The exhibition “Unpolished / Jeune design de Pologne*” presents realisations by Polish designers, all about thirty years old. “When we started to look for works and designers, we looked for the most characteristic aspects of Polish design, those which distinguish us from other designers. By preparing this type of exhibition, we have to ask ourselves the question: What do we want to prove? That Polish design is similar to or different from the rest? We feel that the works we are presenting confirm both options. The world is open to us. We travel, observe and exchange experiences. Today, Polish designers are able to work all over Europe. They are ready to do so and they have the right to do so. We do not differentiate ourselves so much as people, but, instead, as individuals. Nevertheless, it can be said that Polish design is different”. Trained in the years following the political upheavals in Poland, the majority of these designers not only manage design, but also, generally, manage the production and promotion of their work. Above all, it is emotion which can be seen in their work, and that is why they have been chosen to take part in this exhibition.
A pocket cushion which turns into an “ordinary” chair for children… A piece of furniture on castors which can become a sofa, a small house, a train… Today, products for children need to meet many demands. On the one hand, they need to offer children the opportunity to grow up in a fun and safe environment. On the other hand, they also have to simplify their parents’ lives. All of that while also respecting the environment which belongs to future generations. In view of these aspects, Swedish designers often consult their own children who are experts on the matter. Children have been at the heart of Swedish culture for generations. At the start of the 20 th century, the book “The Century of the Child” (Ellen Key) made its mark giving rise to major decisions in the fields of education, culture, society and legislation in order to ensure children better living standards. Today, the ideas and products for children cover all fields: clothing, road safety, furniture, toys… even including medical equipment. The exhibition presents a selection of objects by thirty companies, as well as a soothing and gentle white space for parents and their newborn babies.
*Unpolished / Young design from Poland
*Young swedish sprouts
Rafsoda Tel Aviv - february 2010
Unpolished / Jeune design de Pologne * by Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka and Paweł Grobeln
What is a Rafsoda? Rafsoda in Hebrew means Raft. This is also the name chosen for the ephemeral shop (“design pop up store”) offering creations by about twenty Israeli designers during Designers Days 2011. Arriving from Tel Aviv, Rafsoda is bringing with it fragrances of the sea and a young and innovative creative energy. It offers a range of limited edition or mass produced products, designed by creators from a variety of fields (product design, graphic design, industrial design, ceramicists and jewellers). During Designer’s Days, Rafsoda invites the public to discover and be charmed by the objects exhibited. It is a place for exchanges which offers encounters and events with Israeli designers. The unique setting of the pop-up store reflects the Rafsoda spirit – based on renewal and temporality. The artist, Yaakov Sasson collects old wooden doors and windows which he finds in the streets of Tel Aviv. He then transforms them into elements of scenography. In Paris, Rafsoda finds its natural place on the banks of the Saint Martin Canal in the exceptional space of the Comptoir général.
For the guided tour and the conference see page 31 /
Rafsoda at the Comptoir général 80 quai de Jemmapes - 75010 Paris www.rafsoda.com Exhibition realised under the patronage of the cultural services of the Embassy of Israel Press contact: Anat Safran T. +33 (0)1 44 88 20 45 / rafsodadesign@gmail.com
Polish Institute at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal 21 boulevard Morland - 75004 Paris www.institutpolonais.fr Press contact: Klaudia Podsiadlo / T. +33 (0)1 53 93 90 10 / kp@institutpolonais.fr
Swedish Institute 11 rue Payenne - 75003 Paris www.institutsuedois.fr Press contact: Gunilla Noren T. +33 (0)1 44 78 80 15 / gno@ccs.si.se
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Verre à Venise, 3 artistes, 3 visions * by Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana
Plastique ludique ** by Libuse Niklova
Echanges * by the Residents of the Ateliers de Paris
Aux vitrines du péristyle et de la galerie de Valois Talkie-Walkie, objets de conversation par Flavie + Paul *
Bringing together more than 150 unique pieces, the exhibition, organised by Les Arts Décoratifs in collaboration with the Barry Friedmann Gallery (New York), is presenting three of the most talented creators working today in Venice: Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana. Each of them revisits Venice glass and offers three original approaches to an ancient art. In the 1970s, it could have been thought that the tradition of Venice glass was dying, but, since those years, invigorated by fruitful international exchanges, it is showing a new face and offering the world of art and design many masterpieces. Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira and Laura de Santillana, although they do not practice the art of glass blowing themselves, are among the leading experts in this tradition and their contemporary offerings have been made possible thanks to the complicity of leading Venetian maestros, glass blowers and engravers. Valuable, sensual, expressive, these objects reveal unexpected shapes, original materials, and rare colours, but, they also bring us face to face with three visions of contemporary creators, three demanding personalities who have chosen to make glass their own.
The toy gallery at the Museum of Decorative Arts devotes a monographic exhibition to the Czech designer Libuse Niklova. These creations, relatively unknown in France, transformed traditional toys and made a deep mark on several generations of children in her native country. Made in rubber, and in plastic after the 1950s, these toys are as famous in the Czech Republic as the monkey Zizi by Bruno Munari (1952) or the French giraffe Sophie (1961). Libuse Niklova produced figurines and animals with gentle and simple shapes, always pushing further the boundaries of technical innovation specific to different materials. She developed flexible toys which bend and stretch and invented a complete range of colourful inflatable toys. More than 120 toys have been brought together to present the achievements of this artist’s career.
What is told here is the story of encounters between different universes. Seven projects in residence for a year, sometimes even more, at the Ateliers de Paris, by creators committed to the development of their activity. An opportunity to compare their personal expression or to combine their techniques. Each devoted to the world of fashion, design and crafts, here they discover other techniques, other languages and other ways of thinking. Galatée Pestre, an artist-jeweller; Olivier Dollé, a designer cabinetmaker; Pierre Favresse, a designer; Ambrym, a fashion designer for women; Jean Couvreur, a designer; Floz, a graphic designer; Auriane Grosperrin, an embroiderer. From one workshop to another, the network takes shape and becomes a reality. The propositions form part of a creative path specific to each one but which take shape under the watchful eyes of the others. The scenography invites a dialogue with visitors.
Designers, editors: two professions, two complementary approaches to the project. The exhibition presents the origin of several objects, reveals the universe of those two protagonists and explains the way how the quality of their dialogue is used to move forward and materialize the project of this edition. Recent creation of young publishing houses in France proves a passion for this kind of exchange; the youth of the actors reveals a free spontaneous dialectic. Allegory of five projects, “Talkie-Walkie” presents five productive conversations incarnated in five objects.
**Folk plastic
Exhibition Glass in Venice / From 24 March to 4 September 2011
*Glass in Venice, 3 artists, 3 visions
Exhibition Entertaining Plastic / From 9 June to 6 November 2011
Les Arts Décoratifs 107 rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr Press contact: Marie-Laure Moreau / Isabelle Mendoza T. +33 (0)1 44 55 58 78 / presse@lesartsdecoratifs.fr
Important / The museum will not be open for private viewing on Friday 17 June. It will be closed on Monday 20 June / Free access for the Designer’s Days public on presentation of the event’s programme.
*On the displays of the peristyle and in the gallery de Valois Talkie-Walkie, objects of conversation by Flavie + Paul
Exhibition from 16 th May to 20 th June 2011 Hours of the opening of the garden Till 31st May 7am – 22.15pm From 1st June 7am – 23pm
*Exchanges
Les Ateliers de Paris 30 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine - 75012 Paris www.ateliersdeparis.fr Press contact: Clémentine Michaud T. +33 (0)1 44 73 83 52 / clementine.michaud@paris.fr
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication Vitrines du péristyle et de la galerie de Valois www.culture.gouv.fr www.culture.fr www.flavie-paul.com
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Charlotte Perriand From photography to design
Via Design 2011 Thirteen prototypes by emerging designers
Speed dating designers / enterprises Friday 17 June: 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm
The Petit Palais is offering a new look at the work of Charlotte Perriand and, for the first time, is revealing the role played by photography in her creative process, as much as a source of inspiration as a constituent element of her work. As soon as she joined Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in 1928, she used photography as a support for designing furniture, then as a means of observing the “laws of nature” and analysing cities. The exhibition reveals her passion for the objects she finds which inspire her to give greater freedom to her creations, distancing herself from the rationalist spirit of the 1920s. Charlotte Perriand was also the first to use photography as an integral part of furniture, or as a constituent feature of interior architecture, in the form of photomontage. Here, the Petit Palais shows a committed artist, attentive to her natural and social environment. The exhibition offers 380 photos and 70 pieces of furniture, some of which used to belong to her. Some of the works are presented alongside the permanent collections (free access), with other works presented in the Hall Jacqueau (entry fee).
The VIA is offering two events in the framework of Designer’s Days: the exhibition “VIA Design 2011” and a designers / enterprises speed dating afternoon. The exhibition “VIA Design 2011” presents to the public thirteen prototypes of furniture, light fittings and objects designed by the 2011 class of designers which benefited from funding from the VIA Support for Creation programme. To be discovered: “Objet trou noir*”, Carte Blanche by Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard, which offers an original alternative for a clutter-free existence, and 11 Supports for Projects designed by Pierre Brisset, François Brument, Damaris & Marc, Béatrice Durandard, Grégoire de Lafforest, Arnaud Le Cat & Luther Quenum, Julien Phedyaeff, Antoine Phelouzat, Fred Rieffel, Renaud Thiry and Quentin Vaulot & Goliath Dyèvre. Finally, the partnership project “B.a.-ba”, or the art of extreme recycling and transforming obsolete or unwanted objects, will also be presented: a project initiated by Cyrille Candas and supported by Le Relais, the commercial offshoot of Emmaüs.
On 17 June, the VIA is offering a speed dating afternoon: a series of short interviews between designers and professionals. To start with, an invitation will be sent to all the designers followed by the VIA. It is an exceptional opportunity for young designers to present their projects to companies, and for companies, it is an opportunity to discover new proposals and new design talents. The art of conversation at the VIA has always been, and continues to, be an occasion to reveal and promote the young designers of the future, to encourage creative initiatives, and to establish relationships between talents and manufacturers.
Tapis-Tapis by les Sismo
The new 2011 edition of the “Summer garden” is an invitation to Eloge de la Lenteur*, a nod to the figure of the tortoise which inspired Gilles Clément when designing the garden of the Quai Branly Museum, as well as to nomadic cultures. It is on the basis of this theme that Sismo installs its creation Tapis-Tapis in one of the garden’s clearings. Each rug is a world in its own right: A carpet which conveys dreams and crazy stories, a territory for hiding, a field to be farmed, a valuable or ordinary carpet, a flying carpet... In the heart of the garden, a landscape to be invented: Reels of luminous cable, wheels of twigs, stocks of surfaces containing different matter, mousse, paving stones... All sorts of materials and shapes will be made available to visitors to create a huge carpet, a collective and evolutive work. This project-event will take the form of an outline on the ground covering an entire clearing on which children will be able to fasten, weave, knot and braid... *Praise Slowness From 04 June to 04 September 2011 Garden’s opening times (Free access) from 9.15 am to 7.30 pm from Tuesday to Sunday (closed on Monday) from 9.15 am to 9.15 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Quai Branly Museum 37 quai Branly - 75007 Paris www.quaibranly.fr Press contact: Pierre Laporte T. +33 (0)1 45 23 14 14 / info@pierre-laporte.com Contact Musée du Quai Branly : Magalie Vernet T. +33 (0)1 56 61 52 87 / magalie.vernet@quaibranly.fr
Petit Palais Avenue Winston Churchill - 75008 Paris www.petitpalais.paris.fr Press contact: Caroline Delga T. +33 (0)1 53 43 40 14 / caroline.delga@paris.fr
*Black hole object”
Via 33 avenue Daumesnil - 75012 Paris www.via.fr Press contact: Emmanuelle Grange / MCS Communication T. +33 (0) 47 49 94 14 / egrange@mcscom.fr Contact Speed dating : Patrice Juin / VIA T. +33 (0)1 44 75 79 76 / juin@mobilier.com
Exhibition “VIA Design 2011” From 07 to 26 June 2011 Monday-Friday 9.30 am-6.30 pm Saturday-Sunday 1 pm-6 pm / 10 am-7 pm during Designer’s Days Nocturnal: Friday 17 June Speed dating Friday 17 June 2011 from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm A registration form will be sent by VIA before the event.
Part 3 / The Events
Conferences and Round Tables
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Conference / “La ville numérique” (“The digital city”)
How can the digital world create social links? How to intervene in this creative and personalised society? Date and times Saturday 18 June 2011 from 6.30 pm to 9 pm Reservation : geraud.pellottiero@hotmail.fr
Conference / « Conserver et réhabiliter / détruire et reconstruire » (“Conserving and rehabilitating / destroying and rebuilding”)
In today’s world, with rehabilitation becoming the duty of each individual, what is our relationship to the past? And, in parallel, how is it possible to be a part of the present with a sustainable dynamic? Date and times Sunday 19 June 2011 from 6.30 pm to 9 pm Reservation : geraud.pellottiero@hotmail.fr
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Round table / On the occasion of the book to be published by Anne Eveillard “Ces Machines qui parlent de nous*” Moderator: Jérôme Aumont (Maison Française - Maison magazine) In the presence of the sociologist Michel Maffesoli, designers from the Faltazi collective, the Chief Executive Officer of Dyson France, Dimitri Peucelle, and Anne Eveillard
What type of “conversations” do we have with the everyday objects and machines which surround us? What sorts of behaviour have psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists brought to light? And how have designers integrated these revelations into their creations? How does our home work? Nowadays, populated by household appliances, the home is associated with sensations, needs, desires, but also frustrations (the vacuum cleaner which blows out dust, the noisy washing machine, the non self-cleaning oven...). With the advent of domotics, we have an increasingly fusional, even complicit, relationship with the objects which surround us. We trust them. We speak to them and they speak to us. We sleep with them. We love them and we hate them when they go wrong. Why? Are we mad or have objects succeeded in “possessing” us? On the occasion of the publication of her book, designed as a journalistic report, Dyson is happy to offer Anne Eveillard the opportunity to debate this hugely fascinating subject. In the presence of sociologists, designers, manufacturers and Anne Eveillard herself, we should be able to decipher – at long last! – our often unconscious behaviour with “these machines which speak about us”.
Part 3 / The Events
Round table / « Responsabilité sociale du design » (“Socially responsible design”)
Contrary to certain received ideas, design is not a futile activity. Quite the opposite, with its most noble vocation being to give meaning to things and to improve life. Never is design more relevant than when it deals with disturbances and shocks which make life complicated and difficult: recomposition of families, stress in the workplace, unemployment, disability, ageing, housing crises… Charlotte Perriand was not the only person to take her work in this direction and she was constantly thinking about the troubles of her time (overpopulation and poor housing, unemployment, disease). Whatever the context, design does not dissociate its territory from that of society. How, in 2011, can design become an intelligent part of large-scale social and environmental crisis? Can design contribute to finding solutions? Socially responsible design is a large subject area, whether it involves creating spaces for relaxation within working environments, furniture for emergency situations, kit hotels for homeless people, solar cookers for refugee camps, biogas balloons filled with organic waste to supply energy to African villages… This round table will take a look at the notions of “design for all”, “universal design”, “inclusive design” and “sustainable design”, etc., with the aim being to make a distinction between real and concrete progress and the hollow words used for hidden commercial goals.
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Round table / « Conversations entre talents : de chercheurs et de designers » (“Conversations between talents: researchers and designers”) In the presence of Professor Bernard Darras, University Paris I Sorbonne
Research at Parsons Paris is enriched with conversations between top researchers, their theories and talented designers in its research magazine “Collection”. These conversations between theories and practices feed into each other and help to define territories. In 2011, following on from the research symposium organised by Parsons Paris in May with the Design Research Society – for the first time in France and in Paris – we offer you the opportunity to take part in the conversation provoked by our research magazine Collection. With Professor Bernard Darras, University Paris I Sorbonne, the “guest editor” of Collection 3, who will moderate an initial Round Table, we will develop the links between Art+Design and Semiotics seen by designers and seen by semioticians. Then, all the players involved in our research magazine Collection will participate in a conversation with artists and designers according to their science: sociology, cognitive psychology, semiotics, education science. Date and times Thursday 16 June from 4 pm to 6.30 pm Reservation : brigitte.borja@parsons-paris.com
Date and times Saturday 18 June 2011 from 10 am to 12.30 pm Reservation : communication@ifm-paris.com
*These Machines which speak about us Date and times Friday 17 June 2011 from 9.30 am to 11.30 am Reservation : virginie.toledo@dyson.com
Ecole Boulle at the Espace Commines 17, rue Commines - 75003 Paris www.ecole-boulle.org Press contact: Géraud Pellottiero / T. +33 (0)6 23 53 51 32 geraud.pellottiero@hotmail.fr Blandine Delahousse / T. +33 (0)6 25 02 05 00
Dyson 64 rue de la Boétie - 75008 Paris www.dyson.com Press contact: Orlane Aquilina T. +33 (0)1 56 69 79 78 / orlane.aquilina@dyson.com
IFM 36 quai d’Austerlitz - 75013 Paris www.ifm-paris.com Press contact: Lucas Delattre T. +33 (0)1 70 38 89 89 / communication@ifm-paris.com
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Parsons Paris School of Art + Design 14 Rue Letellier - 75015 Paris www.parsons-paris.com Press contact: Brigitte Borja de Mozota T. +33 (0)1 45 77 39 66 / brigitte.borja@parsons-paris.com
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Part 3 / The Events
3-sided conversation / 1 artist / 1 producer / 1 manufacturer « Le rôle de l’innovation dans la valorisation de l’innovation »
Date and times Friday 17 June from 10 am to 12 pm Reservation : info@aglasshouse.com
Presentation / debate / « Panorama des verres intelligents, matériaux innovants pour l’architecture et l’ameublement » (“Overview of intelligent glass, innovative materials for architecture and furnishings”)
Date and times Saturday 18 June from 2.30 pm to 4 pm Monday 20 June from 10.30 am to 12 pm Reservation : info@aglasshouse.com
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Part 3 / The Events
Conference / « Notre secteur face aux enjeux de l’économie numérique : Internet, transformer l’obstacle en opportunité » / (“Our sector faced with the challenges of the digital economy: Internet, turning an obstacle into an opportunity”) Table Ronde organisée par Audrey Bres / yooko.fr
Round table / « Design pour tous / l’espace public et privé pour les enfants de la ville » “Design for all / “public and private space for city children”
In the presence of Richard Gomes, Head of the Technologies/Innovations/Services Department, Ubifrance and Laurent Chenot, Expert Consultant on growth for very small business and small businesses.
Date and times Friday 17 June from 2 pm Reservation : institutsuedois@si.se
With the Internet and NTIC revolution, the positioning of new media has become a key element of national and international competitiveness. Although most professionals from our sector – architects, interior designers, designers, creators… have understood the importance of a Web presence, it continues to be difficult to find satisfactory answers to the challenges posed by the digital economy. How, beyond fashion and the technological race, is it possible to make the Internet a sustainable accelerator for growth? It is the answer to this question on which hinges the success, even the survival, of many of us. The Web is a complex world which is constantly changing. On the Internet, more than anywhere else, innovations quickly succeed one another, often leaving a feeling that we are running after technology. Yet, behind the technological tree, the forest of opportunity is very much present. It is urgent to move beyond the myths of the Internet in order to generate concrete and hard-hitting actions. For this, it is necessary to take account of the Web’s realities: fragmented audience, scattered content, changes in communication and marketing, speed of transmitting information… Faced with these challenges, which are the result of a structural revolution which has only just started, our sector must formulate its response. This Round table aims to disperse certain Internet myths and open up a field of thought designed to help us to get the most out of the extraordinary opportunities which lie ahead of us.
Free guided tour / Exhibition « Jeunes pousses suédoises » (“Young up and coming Swedes”)
Date and times Saturday 18 June at 4.30 pm Reservation : institutsuedois@si.se
Date and times Friday 17 June 2011, from 4 pm to 6 pm Address: to be confirmed Reservation : contact@yooko.fr Saazs 8 passage Saint-Avoye - 75003 Paris www.saazs.com Press contact: Agence 14 Septembre Stéphanie Morlat / Emilie Reboul T. +33 (0)1 55 28 38 28 / emiliereboul@14septembre.fr
Yooko.fr www.yooko.fr Press contact: Audrey Bres T: +33(0)1 43 78 41 25 / a.bres@yooko.fr
Institut Suédois 11 rue Payenne - 75003 Paris www.institutsuedois.fr Press contact: Gunilla Noren T. +33 (0)1 44 78 80 15 / gno@ccs.si.se
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