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Guillaume Delvigne, the jack-of-all-trades
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Guillaume Delvigne, the jack-of-all-trades

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August 11, 2020
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Circus coffee table in MDF and lacquered metal for La Redoute

Passionate about drawing from an early age, it was only natural that Guillaume Delvigne turned to creation, since revisiting objects of everyday life. Under the pencil of this daring creator, kitchen machines, pots, glasses, lights and other items are transformed into works of art. Spotlight on this star of hexagonal industrial design.

Winner of the Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris in 2011, Guillaume Delvigne belongs to this new wave of French designers who have succeeded, thanks to their talent and sensitivity, in changing the situation and shaping the world of furniture. Anchored in everyday life, his creations, on the border between art and design, arouse emotions. Author of multidisciplinary objects, it is difficult to identify this native of Saint-Nazaire, so much his inventiveness and imagination are practiced in all possible fields. Advocating a graphic vocabulary, the artist discovered very early, on the school benches, a taste for drawing. A passion that he refined by pursuing studies first at the Nantes Atlantique School of Design, then at the prestigious Politecnico, in Milan, the city where he settled to start his career alongside greats in the field, such as George J. Soeden, co-founder of the Memphis movement.

Mixing industrial design and research work, this parenthesis allowed him to rub shoulders with other emerging talents with whom he joined to form a collective, Dito. During this phase, he signed a series of porcelain objects for the Italian publisher Industreal. Spotted thanks to his “vase hat”, a glass base on which are placed various ceramic lids in the shape of a hat, he carves out a small place in the sun. And it was this first success that prompted him to settle in Paris in 2005. For several years, he linked personal projects and collaborations with major firms, such as RADI Designers, Marc Newson, Elium Studio, Delo Lindo and Cédric Ragot. In 2011, he opened his own studio and opened his first solo exhibition at the ToolsGalerie.

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Contemporary concept, sober and elegant lines, colors and muted tones resolutely in tune with the times, noble and quality materials… The multiple creations designed and sculpted by Terry Dwan have everything to seduce us. Take a look at this outstanding talent. An architect and designer at the same time, Terry Dawn has, for a long time, established his notoriety on the international scene, thanks to his remarkable style. Based in Milan, this native American but adopted Italian uses a language of her own. Born in 1957, in Santa Monica, California, United States, she began her career after studying engineering and architecture at Rice University, Houston, in addition to training in Fine Arts at Studio Arts Center International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. The designer, who won the Fulbright Fellowship to study the architecture of cemeteries and war monuments in Italy, graduated from Yale University in Architecture in 1984. After an experience alongside Antonio Citterio, with whom she collaborated from 1985 to 1996 and founded the Citterio/Dwan office, working on several projects and residential complexes, fairs and exhibitions, notably in Switzerland, Japan, Germany and Italy, she opened her own design agency in 1992 and got involved in great designs, whether in architecture or decoration. A book entitled Antonio Citterio & Terry Dwan: Ten years of Architecture and Design, signed by Pippo Ciorra, was published on the occasion of the exhibition that the duo organized in Bordeaux in 1993. At the same time, it multiplies design projects for the biggest publishers and won numerous awards at international competitions. In 1996, she began by developing industrial design plans for firms such as Sawaya and Moroni, Electrolux, San Lorenzo and Driade. An accomplished designer, she juggles with forms, materials and concepts, questions obvious codes, experiments and explores eclectic universes: from the architecture of private residences, public buildings and interior decoration, through the design and the from salon and exhibition design to furniture and porcelain or silver objects, she is interested in everything and comes out with flying colors. Marrying current vision with everyday functionality, some of her works are part of the permanent collection of the Design Museum at the Milan Triennale. Passionate, her career is marked by numerous explorations of the material where wood, her material of choice, occupies a privileged place. She enjoys working with it revealing its multiple aesthetic qualities, through several everyday basics, many models of which have become emblematic, such as Maui, seat in scented cedar wood, edited by Riva 1920, and the Napa armchair, object oscillating between functional piece of furniture and biomorphic sculpture, or even Implement, a desk composed of two juxtaposed and misaligned wooden boards. Her collaboration with Driade is crowned by the timeless Burgos and Bedda sofas. A sought-after speaker around the world, Terry Dwan has taught architecture at SACI, Florence, and co-taught architectural heritage conservation at the University of Milan. Since 2006, she has been Dean of the Council of the School of Architecture at Yale University and a member of the SACI Board of Trustees.
Terry Dwan, multifaceted designer

Surfing in fields as varied as furniture, objects, lighting or interior design, the prolific designer cooperates with many manufacturers, publishers and craftsmen and leads several projects for internationally renowned French houses. This is how he designed vases and accessories for Hermès, the precious case for the All-In-One palette by Givenchy, glasses for Cristal de Sèvres and Veuve Clicquot, the Circus tables for La Redoute, Losange for Habitat, marble stools for ToolsGalerie, robots for Moulinex or even saucepans for Tefal. He also continues to collaborate with young publishers such as La Chance, Hartô or ENOstudio. Regularly presented during exhibitions in France and abroad, his iconic works have won several prizes, including the Wallpaper Design Award. Some are even part of permanent collections.

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