Le FRENCH DESIGN 100

Image: Dragon Mountain Pavilion, Rizhao Zhulong Shan, Shandong, China,
an installation by Aurelien Chen, 2019. © Aurelien Chen.

DESIGN

Le FRENCH DESIGN 100

Le FRENCH DESIGN 100 has undertaken the mission of selecting 100 objects and spatials design projects that help spread French design around the world. This second edition was placed under the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of France. Among hundreds of candidates, an international jury led by jury president, Hervé Lemoine, director of the Mobilier national, selected the projects that excelled the most in diffusing the spirit and values of French design throughout the world.

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Design Parade Toulon

Image: Sardine Sardine by Madeleine Oltra and Angelo de Taisne. © Luc Bertrand

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

Madeleine Oltra & Angelo de Taisne

Grand Prix Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels

Dotation de la fondation Carmignac

Prix Visual Merchandising décerné par CHANEL

The winning project, Sardine Sardine, imagined by Madeleine Oltra and Angelo de Taisne, is a reinterpretation of outdoor holidays and all the codes of nomadic living. Under the tent in three shades of yellow and ecru, we go from the camp bed, with its mattress redesigning the inflatable tubes of our childhood, to floor mats of all sizes which lie down and overlap for more comfort, to aluminum engraved with a floral pattern. Central element in the presentation of the two winners, all the materials are natural, sustainable, recycled or with a low ecological footprint.

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Design Parade Hyères

Image: Anima II by Claire Pondard and Léa Pereyre.

DESIGN

Claire Pondard & Léa Pereyre

Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères

Prix du Public de la ville de Hyères

Claire Pondard and Léa Pereyre graduated from ECAL in Industrial Design. Observers as well as actors of the digital world and its evolution, throughAnima II they take a sensitive and poetic look at technology and connected objects by adopting a transdisciplinary approach combining robotics, art, craftsmanship and biology. On view, laser-cut colored plastic sheets come to life and react to their environment, like creatures of the abyss.

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LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022

Image: Dahye Jeong, A Time of Sincerity, horsehair, 2021.

CRAFTS

Dahye Jeong

LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize

The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022 has been awarded to Dahye Jeong for the piece A time of Sincerity. Delicate yet solid, the basket is woven out of thin horsehair to create a flexible geometric design that transposes a 500-year-old hat-making technique and combines it with an ancient earthenware form. Exploiting the natural elasticity of the horsehair fibre, it has been threaded onto a needle and woven into loops to create a work that expresses both the robustness and the beauty of life. The Craft Prize Jury celebrated Jeong’s dedication to reviving and updating the tradition, as well as the delicate perfection, transparency and lightness of the work.

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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022

Image: Installation view, Objects of common interest, "Volax", Athens’ Carwan Gallery, 2021.
Low chair, side table, bench and arch in linden wood, "Inflatable Loop Large" and "Tube".

DESIGN

Objects of common interest

Designers of the Year

Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis formed Objects of common interest with an emphasis on the creation of still life installations and experiential environments and objects, demonstrating a fixation with materiality, concept and tangible spatial experiences. "I love their capacity to use forms in an individual and coherent way," says Wallpaper* Design Awards judge Luca Guadagnino, who praises their ability to fill a space with objects, looking beyond their immediate function.

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Prix Liliane Bettencourt
pour l’intelligence de la main 2021

Image: Karl Mazlo, Black Garden, damask steel, ferrite and brass, 18 x 14 cm.

CRAFTS

Karl Mazlo

Talents d’exception

Talents d’exception rewards an artisan for the realization of an innovative work resulting from a perfect mastery of the techniques and know-how of an art profession and contributing to its evolution. Karl Mazlo, craftsman jeweler, is rewarded for his work Black Garden. Black Gardenis a sculpture where a ring and its receptacle coexist. The piece is above all the expression of a manifesto: bringing a different perspective to the jewel by giving it as much importance as its staging. Abandoning the use of precious stones, the jeweler mixed gold with damascus steel, the forging techniques of which he learned during his residency at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. The whole piece was then polished. The metal has been blackened with an elaborate green tea-based patina.

About the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l’intelligence de la main




Grands Prix de la Création
de la Ville de Paris 2021

Image: Armchair, souchet inspired woodwork, oiled chestnut, worsted wool Kvadrat / Raf Simons, 2021.
© Mario Simon Lafleur

DESIGN

Studio Lacoua

Grand Prix Design

Grégory Lacoua graduated from École Boulle in upholstery before choosing a more creative path and joining ENSCI-Les Ateliers (École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle). In 2010 he created his studio. Studio Lacoua imagines objects, places and experiences in the service of a desirable future: urban furniture for public spaces in a Brussels municipality, smart and connected objects for RATP as well as rooms for liturgy for a chapel in Paris. For him, any new creation is a collective and committed act. Each project contributes to expressing and changing our relationship with the world.

Image: Imbricata designed by Lily Alcaraz and Léa Berlier in collaboration with
cabinetmaker Jean Brieuc Atelier, 2021.

CRAFTS

Lily Alcaraz & Léa Berlier

Grand Prix Métiers d'art

Both textile designers, Lily Alcaraz and Léa Berlier met while studying at École Duperré. Linked by a wonderful friendship and a passion for weaving, they founded their workshop in 2009. They are inspired by materials: threads, but also leather and paper...which they cut, crush and weave on their looms. If the computer allows them to project themselves into the final result, to technically prepare their projects, it is by "assembling" their mechanical looms, by operating pedals and levers, that they give birth to a few metres of material made by hand.

About the Grands Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris




Design Museum's Saltzman Prize

Image: Concur, chair and stool designed by Mac Collins and manufactured by Benchmark
for Discovered, an initiative by Wallpaper* and AHEC.

DESIGN

Mac Collins

Saltzman Prize

Mac Collins is the first recipient of the Ralph Saltzman Prize, a new annual design award celebrating emerging product designers. Mac Collins is known for his afrofuturistic carpentry pieces and first rose to prominence with his throne-like Iklwa chair, designed when he was still a student. In the years since graduating, Collins has been committed to designing and making narrative-rich and impactful furniture and objects. His work often explores the African diaspora and his own Afro-Caribbean heritage, whether creating a homage to Senufo stools or naming Iklwa after the short spear used by the Zulu.

About the Design Museum's Saltzman Prize