Grand Prix Inclusive Design 2024
Image: © Intotum
DESIGN
Hanan Tantush
Grand Prix Inclusive Design
Eyes on Talents and Paris Good Fashion have launched the third edition of the Grand Prix Inclusive Design with APF France handicap, focusing this year on the future of inclusive clothing in the run-up to the Paris Paralympic Games. The Grand Prix Inclusive Design 2024 was awarded to Hanan Tantush, founder of the British adaptive clothing brand Intotum. Intotum aims to create functional clothing for and with wheelchair users, using an exploratory and collaborative approach. The collection is inspired by outdoor clothing and nature, with a bold colour palette and integrated elements that allow for modularity and adaptability while reflecting a sportswear style. Intotum encourages empowerment through ease of dressing, enabling independence and individuality for a marginalised community.
Image: æquidem. Photo: Laurent Julliand
DESIGN
Bénédicte de Torquat
Special Mention
The jury awarded Bénédicte de Torquat with a special mention for her æquidem project, a clothing brand designed for teenagers and young adults who are frequently hospitalised. Reconciling fashion and health in an inclusive and sustainable approach, æquidem is a concrete solution to increase confidence and independence by creating trendy, comfortable and functional clothing that will give people in care the flexibility they need in terms of clothing. The aim of the project is to combat the social isolation of vulnerable people by providing them with clothing adapted to care.
About the Grand Prix Inclusive Design
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024
Image: Andrés Anza, I only know what I have seen, ceramics, 2023.
CRAFT
Andrés Anza
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize
Mexican ceramic artist Andrés Anza is the winner of this year's LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize for his ceramic totemic work I only know what I have seen. The jury praised the work for the way it combines the "figurative and the abstract" with "architectural intention and precision". Assembled in five parts, it is constructed from refractory clay and features a dynamic composition which appears to twist, turn and fold in on itself. Thousands of tiny, spiked protrusions covering the work’s surface lend it a further amorphic quality. After the piece was fired in a kiln to give an even surface, acrylic paint was applied. This monochromatic finish allows light and shadow to further emphasise the work’s highly textured surface.
About the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize
Design Parade Toulon 2024
Image: Willie Morlon, Placo studiolo.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Willie Morlon
Grand Prix Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels
The Grand Prix Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels was awarded to Willie Morlon for his project Placo studiolo. Placo studiolo is a Mediterranean palace room. A dream palace like the ones you see in pictures or museums, but without precious materials, marble or gold. Just plasterboard from floor to ceiling, polystyrene insulation and building site straps. The work of the artisan architect is brought back to the forefront as a testament to knowledge and the pleasure of making things, reinvesting the interior as a space for popular expression.
Design Parade Hyères 2024
Image: Sacha Parent and Valentine Tiraboschi, Décor par le sable [Ornamentation with sand].
DESIGN
Sacha Parent and Valentine Tiraboschi
Grand Prix Design Parade Hyères
The Grand Prix Design Parade Hyères was awarded to Sacha Parent and Valentine Tiraboschi for their project Décor par le sable [Ornamentation with sand]. This research project is inventing a new ornamental technique in which the designer combines the natural behaviour of a simple material - sand - with traditional craftsmanship. The sand ornaments challenge us, as creators or users, to question the uniformity of formal vocabularies and the standardisation of contemporary production methods.
Le FRENCH DESIGN 100
Image: Clémentine Chambon, Elliptic Limited Edition, Italy, Bonacina 1889 x Doppia Firma. Photo: Laila Pozzo
DESIGN
Le FRENCH DESIGN 100
Le FRENCH DESIGN 100 was awarded to the 100 best French design and interior architecture projects worldwide. For this 3rd edition, the jury was chaired by Laurent Le Bon, President of the Centre Pompidou, with Hervé Lemoine, President of the Mobilier national, as Honorary Chairman. The award-winning projects are the result of collaboration between exceptional designers and interior architects and internationally renowned craftspeople and manufacturers: cabinetmakers and upholsterers, gilders and fitters, furniture and object makers, woodworkers and metalworkers. This association is emblematic of the French art of living and helps to perpetually enrich the heritage and expertise of French design.
Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour
l'Intelligence de la Main 2023
Image: Laissez entrer le soleil [Let the sunshine in], a piece of wood turned and sanded to a transparent finish by Pascal Oudet. © Julie Limont for the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
CRAFT
Pascal Oudet
Talents d'exception
Pascal Oudet is the winner of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2023 in the section Talents d'exception for his piece Laissez entrer le soleil [Let the sunshine in], the result of a technical exploration perfected over nearly twenty years around the transparency of wood. Starting with a 70-year-old oak trunk, Pascal Oudet patiently removed the material until he obtained a diaphanous sculpture. To do this, he first created the shape of the work by turning, before letting it dry naturally, leaving nature to decide its ultimate form. The final decisive step was to sand away the softer spring rings, preserving the denser structure of the summer wood. In the light, an organic lace appears, made of alternating summer rings and the typical oak wood mesh that binds them.
Image: Detail of a piece of glass fabric created by Aurélia Leblanc, weaver and Lucile Viaud, designer.
© Julie Limont for the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
CRAFT | DESIGN
Aurélia Leblanc and Lucile Viaud
Dialogues
Aurélia Leblanc, weaver and Lucile Viaud, designer, are the winners of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2023 in the section Dialogues, for their piece Pêche cristalline. In response to a commission for chef Nicolas Conraux's restaurant in Brittany, Aurélia Leblanc and Lucile Viaud combined their know-how to give life to a glass fabric with changing reflections. Glaz sea glass, the raw material for Pêche cristalline, was created by Lucile Viaud from abalone shells and micro-algae, melted and then worked hot to produce real glass filaments several kilometers long. The duo then hand-wove them with linen to create the striking evocation of a fishing net being pulled out of the water.
About the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main
2023 Premiere Classe x Eyes on Talents Prize
Image: Studio Johanna Seelemann, room divider, from the Potentials five-part furniture series, commissioned by G-Star Raw for The Art of Raw, 2023.
DESIGN
Johanna Seelemann
Design Prize
Created in 2021, the Premiere Classe x Eyes on Talents Prize symbolizes a shared commitment to "creativity, innovation and fashion". The 2023 Design Prize has been awarded to German designer Johanna Seelemann for her Potentials five-part furniture series commissioned by Dutch fashion brand G-Star Raw for The Art of Raw. Looking at the material properties and hidden textile production processes of denim, the project proposes a series of office tools that are structurally dependent on the fabric. Wrapped, temporarily fixed, clamped to wooden structures or filled in a specific way, denim, left in its raw state, is the main character of the project.
About the Premiere Classe x Eyes on Talents Prize
Grands Prix de la Création
de la Ville de Paris 2023
Image: © Morgane Baroghel-Crucq
CRAFT
Morgane Baroghel-Crucq
Grand Prix Métiers d’art
Morgane Baroghel-Crucq studied at ENSCI-Les Ateliers, where she devoted herself to textile design, specialising in weaving. Her creative process is inspired by natural landscapes, which take shape in gentle undulations of varied materials. Her collections incorporate a complex weaving technique. Starting from a traditional base, she weaves in original materials such as brass and mother-of-pearl. She believes that anything can be woven and transformed, opening up almost infinite and exciting possibilities in the creation of her work.
Image: Julie Richoz, Cité, commissioned by Louis Poulsen, 2016.
DESIGN
Julie Richoz
Grand Prix Design
Setting up her studio after graduating from ECAL in 2012, Julie Richoz began by making one-off pieces and small series. She then became interested in developing industrial projects accessible to a larger number of people. She applied for the prize after reading the statement of intent from jury chair Inga Sempé, who explained that she wanted to promote both unique and industrial objects. Her projects successfully demonstrated to the jury that just because you work in series doesn't mean you can't be audacious in language and form.
About the Grands Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris
Dezeen Awards 2023
Image: CoLab, classroom furniture collection designed by Pearson Lloyd for Senator. Photo courtesy of Senator
DESIGN
Pearson Lloyd
Designer of the Year
East London design studio Pearson Lloyd was named Designer of the Year 2023. Founded by Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd, the studio works with manufacturers, brands and public bodies to identify and build products, spaces and services that respond to the day-to-day challenges and experiences. Recent projects include a classroom furniture collection to suit Gen Z learning and a timber chair with replaceable components for Takt.
