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Atelier Jespers, Brussels ATELIER SERRUYS Critique Oblique lamp 08 Welded, forged and lacquered steel, 213 x 33 x 38 cm

Pour sa seconde participation à Art Élysées, l’Atelier Jespers propose 5 projets: #itinerance08, une sélection de designers contemporains (stand 301C), un solo show d’Enric Mestre (stand 315C) en collaboration avec la galerie Modern Shapes, une collaboration avec It’s Great Design (stand 318C), le travail de Studio KRJST, et « Remparts » de Alain Berteau & 6+2 Edition (stand 320 C), et enfin Conrad Willems avec une installation dans l’entrée du pavillon Design. #itinerance est cette possibilité de sortir de l’Atelier Jespers et de donner à voir au monde amateur et/ou professionnel, une sélection d’œuvres exclusives et contemporaines. Une véritable passion de la transmission anime Jean-François Declercq et c’est cette volonté de partage qui permet une diffusion intelligente des pratiques artistiques. L’année dernière, l’Atelier Jespers inaugurait son projet #itinerance en proposant un projet exclusivement contemporain et belge. Cette année, l’accent est donné aux divers projets que compte l’Atelier Jespers et aux collaborations établies depuis sa création. Pour cette édition, Jean-François Declercq a notamment invité Michael Anastassiades,

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Domeau & Pérès et Pierre Bonnefille à participer à son projet et ainsi confirmé son intérêt pour un design de qualité autant dans la pensée que dans les matériaux. De plus, il présente son nouveau projet « 6+2 Edition » & « Remparts ». Un vase dessiné par Alain Berteau et produit par Van Den Weghe. « Remparts » est actuellement exposé à Kanal Pompidou à Bruxelles pour la première exposition d’envergure sur le design contemporain Belge. Toujours dans un désir de nouvelles collaborations, il s’associe avec Margherita Ratti de « IT’S GREAT DESIGN » pour proposer le travail de 5 designers français. Aux côtés de ces nouvelles collaborations, l’Atelier Jespers présente 2 solos shows: Enric Mestre et Studio KRJST. Dans un jeu de miroirs inversés, où l’un est un céramiste espagnol confirmé tandis que lui répondent 2 jeunes artistes textiles belges, Jean-François Declercq met en avant toute la dynamique de l’Atelier Jespers, faite de fidélité et de nouvelles rencontres. La présentation d’Enric Mestre, en collaboration avec Modern Shapes, galerie à Anvers est la continuité toute naturelle de l’exposition présentée à l’Atelier Jespers. Enfin dans l’entrée du pavillon Design, Conrad Willems présentera une pièce In-Situ qui flirte avec les limites du design, de l’architecture, des arts plastiques et de la performance. Conrad avait déjà fait sensation à BOZAR (Bruxelles) et à MiART (Milan) avec une œuvre réalisée en temps réel.

#itinerance08 ALAIN BERTEAU www.alain-berteau.squarespace.com

For this first design edition, Brussels-based gallery Atelier Jespers unveils exceptional pieces from architect-designer Alain Berteau, an influential figure of European design, well-known for its seminal inventions in the furniture industry.

ALAIN BERTEAU Remparts, 2018 Three gently rounded and polished stones cut out of a single marble slab — continuous texture and veins, 45 x 30 x 25 cm. Manufactured by Van den Weghe.

Established in Brussels since 2002, architect designer Alain Berteau and his team develops products, buildings and creative strategies. Designing stationary, textiles, tableware, glassware, lighting, indoor and outdoor furniture collections for both residential and contract markets. Alain is the happy creator of several successful product collections. He’s working with Bulo, Montis, Gispen, Lensvelt, Delvaux, Smart-Daimler, Wildspirit, Magazin, Objekten Systems, Othr, TossB, Modular, XLBoom and many other leading brands. Always looking for lasting relevance, his designs are recognized for their simple but decisive functional innovation, smart eco-friendly solutions and versatile convenience. Part of several design museum collections and winner of various awards such as Red Dots, IF or «Designer of the Year nomination», Alain is also a furniture design professor (La Cambre 2003-2013) and now CAD since 2014.

6 ATELIER SERRUYS www.atelierserruys.com

Cypriot-born, London-based designer Michael Anastassiades is one of the most captivating talents working in any visual field today. With his firmly held philosophy that great design should ignite cultural and intellectual discussion, Anastassiades work transcends traditional modern furniture, accessory, and environmental design. Michael Anastassiades virtuosic purview instantly registered with collectors and clients, drawn to request limited edition pieces. Michael Anastassiades lights include elemental shapes, such as cylinders, spheres, and tubes, that are often paired with elevated materials including mirrors, crystal and polished bronze, a material interplay that’s been widely imitated in the world of lighting and beyond. A collaboration with Studio Mumbai in 2006 led to partnerships with leading architectural designers David Chipperfield and John Pawson, and interior design companies like Studio Isle.

“When i grow up i want to be a psychopath” thus said a very young Thomas Serruys (°86 Bruges) to an inquisitive nun in preparation of his first communion. Of course he meant psychologist and even though his life took a whole different direction than the academic study of human psyche his words did have a certain ring to them. Like the mind the steel needs to be bend in previously unknown forms so as to attain true perfection. These unorthodox forms and curves need to be wire fed so the whole can become a radiant structure. A flick of the switch and voilà let there be light. But there is no rest on the seventh day. The autodidact Thomas has enveloped himself in the work ethic of his atelier’s location: the port of Ostend. The cool sea breeze feeds the fire of the furnace, the incessant hammering collides with seagull screeching. In 2018 a more inland liaison has been established as a resident in the Zaventem project by Lionel Jadot. The atelier will be operational by the end of November.

MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES www.michaelanastassiades.com

#itinerance08 CLÉMENT BRAZILLE www.clementbrazille.fr

Pierre Bonnefille is a French artist, painter, designer and ‘Maître d’art’ (Art Master) of a singular and poetic approach. Pierre Bonnefille is a chromatic alchemist. He draws inspiration from his journeys and distils the colors he encounters into the infinite richness of his work. The material, colours and light are inseparable in Pierre Bonnefille’s work. The artist creates his own materials and textures, made from mineral powder, limestone, lava, marble, earth, from natural pigments and metallic powders. Pierre Bonnefille is a veritable explorer, drawing his inspiration from the colors of nature with architectural references from Venice, Pompei and Kyoto. To make his color palettes Pierre Bonnefille starts with the earth and the materials that he collects, and then goes on to analyze their colorimetric structures. The intensity, color and movements of light propose a ceaseless, new interpretation of color and texture created by Pierre Bonnefille, giving them a unique and particular identity.

Clément Brazille is a French creator and designer based in Geneva. His work aims to explore the potential and limits of materials. He is especially focused on the methods of manufacture and the shaping of objects. Frequently, Clément Brazille is the craftsman of his own pieces and realizes an important part of his own production himself. Today, he keeps on collaborating with several cultural and industrial actors whose ambition is the development of high technology innovations or exceptional know-hows. If his production is especially focused on the craft of furniture coming from searches in different domains, Clément Brazille designs also public and private indoor spaces with strong personality. Clément Brazille advices and follows new innovative companies with an ethical and sustainable approach.

PIERRE BONNEFILLE www.pierrebonnefille.com

8 JEAN DE PIEPAPE www.jeandepiepape.com

Maarten De Ceulaer was born in Belgium in 1983. He studied Interior Design at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels, where he graduated in 2005. Attracted by conceptual and narrative design, he continued his studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven. He uses his work to tell stories, to stir people’s emotions, to inspire their imagination and to make them wonder. He continuously explores new materials and investigates in production techniques and crafts. The emotional aspect of objects is equally important as the functional, and he has a remarkable attention for detail. He is known for using materials in unconventional ways, and the end result never ceases to surprise us. Maarten regularly catches attention for the highly evocative, poetic and playful touch he gives his objects. He has received prestigious design awards (Belgian Young Designer award 2007, Henry Van De Velde award for Young Talent 2013), and is regularly featured in international design magazines, publications and newspapers.

Artist and designer Jean de Piépape is renowned for blending an aesthete’s attention to lighting with a cultivated use of authentic and structured materials to create inviting yet clean volumes. For two decades, he developed a practice particularly well versed in the interior design needs of elegant private apartments, office spaces, and prestigious art galleries. Jean de Piépape is also a seasoned scenography designer regularly sought by well established artists such as Kristin McKirdy for her exhibit at la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres or Maria Pergay for her exhibit at Demisch Danant’s. The lamp James XXL is part of a set of lamps called James, which consists in a geometrical form in steel with an epoxy finishing, in various sizes. Polished green Guatemala marble, the stool Strate is composed of 20 successive layers and tapestry in wool, mohair, bamboo and silk, flatweaving Aubusson.

MAARTEN DE CEULAER www.maartendeceulaer.com

#itinerance08 DOMEAU & PÉRÈS www.domeauperes.com

The French-Austrian duo CeliaHannes (Célia Picard and Hannes Schreckensberger) works between the fields of art and design. Their research-based practice relies on a critical encounter with architecture and the oracular character of objects. They consider the territories of cities and rural areas as vast public domain databases where they collect resources for their own projects. Their enigmatic objects reveal their true nature only through an intimate interaction with them. The bench Superfurniture N09 is an enigmatic as well as archetypal object. We took our inspiration from the clear forms of vernicular rural furniture of the Austrian alpine region, as well as from the Viennese modernist objects of the Wiener Werkstätte both based on craftsmanship and geometric forms. With Superfurniture N09, we want to bring a gently miniarchitecture object into intimate interior spaces. The bench is part of our Superfurniture collection, which consists of independent furniture and small architectural living units.

Master craftsmen Bruno Domeau and Philip Peres joined venture in the early 90’s bringing together their respective proficiency in saddling and upholstery. As they launched their collaborative enterprise, they started to gain immediate recognition for the impeccably detailed execution of their work and their close attention to every projects’ nature and needs. Domeau & Peres’ savoir-faire combines comprehensive knowledge of the craft, the material and a constant pursuit of perfection in the making and the finishes. Their sensitivity for felt and refined leather has become part of their trademark. The quality level of their work is often compared to the one expected in couture houses more than in furniture making workshops. The two partners have launched their own furniture line made in collaboration with established contemporary designers including Christophe Pillet, Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec, Matali Crasset, Andrée Putman, Martin Szekely, Eric Jourdan, Pablo Reinoso, FX Balléry, Angie Anakis...

CELIA-HANNES www.celiahannes.net

10 ANTOINE ESPINASSEAU www.antoineespinasseau.com www.greatdesign.fr

INTER FACES STUDIO @inter.faces.studio on instagram www.greatdesign.fr

Antoine Espinasseau, was born in Challans, France, in 1986 and he is currently working between Paris and Brussels. His singular practice mixes architecture, photography, sculpture and drawing. His works have been exhibited at the Consortium in Dijon, the Ricard Foundation and the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris, the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Centre for Contemporary Art (CRAC) in Sète and the Stowe House in Buckingham, England among others. His work explores what it means to inhabit the territory but also an image, an object or a space, and this is to do with a primitive desire. Nature is a great source of inspiration for him. Antoine Espinasseau presents at Art Elysées his recent work Pillars, 2017. Pillars are pleasant objects that seem familiar to us. Perhaps they awaken an affinity in us. They remind us of things whose functions are not expressed by the objects themselves but by what they contain: shells holding their own functionalities and potentialities within.

Inter Faces Studio is a duo composed of Juliette Le Goff and Nicolas Verschaeve, both graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (E.N.S.A.D.) in Paris, Juliette from Textile & Material Design and Nicolas from Product Design. They recently launched Inter Faces Studio and continue, next to that, to work individually as freelance designers. Used as a screen, Mirage is a soft-wall that allows man to have hand on its own architecture. Thanks to its intermediate scale, it becomes a solution to divide spaces for temporary uses, and constantly evolving needs. By hand, you can simply turn it open or closed and change the colors through manipulation. The textile gives a delicate touch and the color declinations offer people the possibility to chose how they want to influence their spaces and feelings. Lightweight, easy to pack, Mirage exists in a range of several dimensions, fitting architectural standards. From pale to saturated, light to dark, warm to cold, Mirage is aptly named, deeply functional and playful, at the same time.

ENRIC MESTRE Stoneware sculpture, 2009 29 x 43 x 75 cm (in collaboration with Modern Shapes Gallery)

CLÉMENT BRAZILLE SILVER TRAVERTINE Console Haute Stone tubes High resistance in Ocean Blu travertine. Made by hand in Italy., 1600 x 300 x 750 cm

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BENOÎT MAIRE FOR KER-XAVIER Le large fauteuil Edition of 8 + 4 AP

PIERRE BONNEFILLE Table polygone 1 Mixed Media on wood, base on bronze burnished wood, 240 x 100 x 72 cm ©IanScigliuzzi

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STUDIO KRJST AWE-LANDSCAPE, 2018 Edition 1/3 Paper, cashwool, mohair, polyester, coton, acrylic, elirex and wool, 215 x 360 cm MAARTEN STUER DE STUUL, 2016 Edition of 3O Stoneware stool or end of sofa with Kaolin/engobe, 48 x 37 x 38 cm, signed and dated In collaboration with Kolkhoze.fr

14 KER-XAVIER www.ker-xavier.com

Studiokhachatryan, founded in 2010 by designer Noro Khachatryan, is active in various felds of product and architectural design. The studio designs installations, interiors and architectural elements for public and residential spaces. Experimental work, functional objects and furniture are selfproduced or manufactured in cooperation with Belgian and international companies. Noro’s design seems to provide objects with a wider experience: they loose their static and project themselves into a metamorphic universe. The designer loves natural materials and drives them carefully to new dimensions, emphasizing one texture or combining different ones: wood, metal, stone.. become words for a new language whose syntax is ruled by a combination of ancient and contemporary dialects. The Eastern and Western heritage and industrial know-how interact to generate a poetic design, made with honesty, technical knowledge and craftsmanship.

«Ker-Xavier» is a french Design Studio named in reference to Xavier Roussel (sometimes called “Kerr”) who was a painter of the Nabis group, from the end of the XIX century. This design studio creates objects and furnitures based on exchanges and dialogues. As a metaphor to Nabis’ paintings, in which the limit between the space and the body of the characters is a space itself, rich in exchanges with the surrounding space. Benoît Maire and Marie Corbin are the two co-founders of “KerXavier” and develop objects and furniture such as tables, lamps, benches, and chairs. To keep their practice based on exchanges and dialogues they are also open to new collaboration with artists, designers and architects, and present as well, collected works of art, objects and furniture designs to enrich their design set and put a light on distinctive practices they estimate or relate to.

NORO KHACHATRYAN www.studiokhachatryan.com

#itinerance08 ENRIC MESTRE www.enricmestre.com

KRJST Studio’s story started in 2012 launched by Erika Schillebeeckx (KR) and Justine de Moriamé (JST), both graduated in Stylisme at La Cambre (Belgium) where they developed their knowledge for textiles, colors and shapes. KRJST Studio became a world dedicated to plastic research and development based on a quest for spirituality. Through their creative process, they reinvent iconographies from the past, crystallizing their research on protection, symbolism and the Sacred. Their strong identity, close to neo-baroque, incorporates pictural and technical exploration. Painting, drawings, 3D works and results of our alchemic experiments are filling the studio. The translation of the research into clothes and weaving represents the heart of their creative approach. KRJST Studio takes its root in the unexpected symbiosis between fashion and art, mixing works in colors, 3D, technology, textile and craft.

Originally trained in painting, Enric Mestre studied at San Carlos Fine Arts School in Valencia. On the advice of a family friend he attended the ceramics school in Manises. During this time he met the ceramist Alfonso Blat, a crucial influence, for Blat was one of the seminal figures who, along with potters like Llorens Artigas and Francisco Ibáñez took Spain into the mainstream of modern ceramic art. Mestre, both as a teacher and practitioner, has himself come to be regarded as an important liberating link between this formative generation and that of Spain’s younger avant-garde. Mestre is also a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC), and for some years he was part of the IAC Council from which he organised the IAC 1986 Congress in Spain (Madrid-Valencia). Mestre has been awarded in several international events and has received the Gold Medal of the Baviera State in Munich (1976) and the Bayerischer Staatpreis Lotte Reimers (2010), as well of some other prizes in Spain.

KRJST STUDIO www.studiokrjst.com

16 RAPHAEL NAVOT www.raphaelnavot.com

What makes Stéphanie Nava’s work so deeply interesting is not only her observation of the interaction between places and spaces and the people who occupy them with their acts and attitudes, but also her urge to weave stories. Decor, which has to do with ornament (an addition that enhances or embellishes), with motif (the subject of a painting or drawing), with surroundings (for something or somebody), or with the performing arts (the setting in which the action unfolds), is not a new field of concern for the artist. The visual experiments it involves – excess, fragmentation, formal repetition, framing, spatial description, the part standing for the whole, proliferation, paring-down – recur regularly in Nava’s work. The carpet designed by Stéphanie Nava figures a domestic garden, where the roughness of the grass has given way to the softness of the wool, welcoming those who look to relax.

Raphael Navot was born in Jerusalem, graduated from ‘The Design Academy’ in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and lives and works in Paris. A multidisciplinary, nonindustrial designer, he focuses on custom made design and made to measure interiors, combining traditional methods with contemporary ‘savoir-faire’. Raphael first made a name for himself designing the Silencio club in Paris in collaboration with David Lynch, he also did the Parisian flagship for the Japanese brand Pas de Calais. He just completed the Hôtel National des Arts et Métiers, a 66 room hotel and restaurant in central Paris.

STÉPHANIE NAVA www.documentsdartistes.org www.greatdesign.fr

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MAARTEN STUER www.maartenstuer.net www.kolkhoze.fr

CONRAD WILLEMS www.conradwillems.com

Graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he specialized in graphic arts, drawing and lithography, Maarten Stuer moved to Barcelona in the 1990s, where he learned to work with clay. In 1995 he moved to the Gers, France, where he still lives. A lover of nature and landscapes, he turned to clay to develop his art. In his hands, the clay is not so dense, not so heavy, not so lifeless... It becomes aerated and pierced, coils up and takes air, space, life and movement, apparently sensitive to weather conditions, to time passing and to the looks that it receives. Through his different series his works increase in scale. However, the shapes that emerge from a made-to-measure kiln remain inspired by the natural world, seeds, shells, waves, coiled fibres: a powerful, subtle world that combines archaism and spirituality.

I am a visual artist making drawings, sculptures and performances. I was born by the sea, but live and work in Ghent. Geometry, repetition and modularity are three basic principles in all of my works, resulting in a visual language that is highly recognisable. The drawingsÂ show the repetition of figures, varying in shapes and sizes. They are made with freehand and without a predetermined plan: every drawn line is a permanent one. This method of freehand repetition generates patterns, disturbed by imperfections in the repetition process. Some earlier drawings are reminiscent of cities or minimal urban landscapes. Earlier works explored simple geometric shapes, blurred or emphasised by adding light. Later sculptural works are constructed with freestanding pieces. These modular installations are often constructed live. The building process thus becomes a performance, the resulting construction an installation work.

In collaboration with AurĂŠlien Gendras, Kolkhoze.fr

MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES Mobile Chandelier 5, 2011 Black patinated brass Mouth blown opaline sphere

ANTOINE ESPINASSEAU Pillars, 2017 ABS thermoformed plastic 80 cm x 16.5 cm Edition It’s Great Design / Antoine Espinasseau

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CONRAD WILLEMS Variation IV, 69 beige Borrèze sandstone building blocks, 155 x 70 x 50 cm (sculpture); black paper and white ink, 29,7 x 42 cm (drawing)

RAPHAEL NAVOT Moon Sofa, 2016 75 x 260 x 120 cm (in collaboration with Domeau & Pérès)

STUDIOKHACHATRYAN Further From Function Marble and Brass, 55 x 19 x 30 cm Each Table of 7 / Edition: 6P + 2AP MAARTEN DE CEULAER Organic stool, 2012 Foam, rubber & textile, 45 x 45 x 45 cm

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CELIA-HANNES Superfurniture N09, 2018 Oiled oak wood, 106 x 47 x 83 cm INTER FACES STUDIO Mirage, 2017 Fabric hanging sidewall, 148 x 175 cm Edition It’s Great Design

STÉPHANIE NAVA Tapis Plants as food as ornement, as decor, 2015 300 x 200 cm Edition It’s Great Design / Galleria Riccardo Crespi JEAN DE PIEPAPE Strate, 2014, unique piece Polished green Guatemala marble, 20 successive layers and tapestry in wool, mohair, bamboo and silk, flatweaving Aubusson,45 x 40 cm Edition It’s Great Design / Galleria Riccardo Crespi

Jean-François Declercq www.itinerance-project.com www.atelierjespers.com www.6plus2edition.com

Over twenty years ago, a passion for design filled the world of Jean-François Declercq. In September 2015, he decided to transform his home into a centre for the arts dedicated to cultural exchanges and exhibitions. The 400 m² Atelier Jespers renews this mission: showing art. The modernist setting of the building hosts artistic projects of all varieties – design, visual arts, sound – with the humble ambition of creating a dialogue between Victor Bourgeois’s architecture and new art forms. Allowing himself complete freedom, Jean-François Declercq opens his doors to various forms of expression, provided they are in line with his own minimalist and conceptual choices: “I like things simple and beautiful!”.

CONTACT Erfprinslaan 149, Avenue du Prince Héritier Brussel 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium Jean-Francois Declercq +32 475 64 95 81 Elsa Sarfati +33 6 10 84 27 48 — jf@atelierjespers.com jf@itinerance-project.com

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