Maison&Objet, the fair on the art de vivre and decor held from 17 to 21 January at Parc des Expositions in Paris, presents the Rising Talent Awards 2020, to shed light on the best emerging talents. The event concentrates each year on a different geographical area, and this year – after Italy, Lebanon, China and the United States – it is France’s turn, the home country of the fair, precisely to celebrate the 25th anniversary of M&O.
Adrien Garcia
The nominees are five young designers plus one duo, all based in Paris: Adrien Garcia, a creative talent who gets inspiration in a ruined dwelling from the 17th century near Nantes: “I need its empty, dilapidated spaces to imagine new creations”; one example is the oak bench that references a model from the 15th century found in the chapel of the building.
Julie Richoz
Julie Richoz, French-Swiss, has already worked with the galleries Kreo and Libby Sellers, as well as companies like Tectona, Alessi and Louis Poulsen.
Laureline Galliot
Laureline Galliot likes to call herself a designer and painter; she makes works by running her fingers over an iPad or wearing a virtual reality headset combined with software originally developed for animated cartoons. The results are novel objects full of color: “I want to overturn the paradigm that imposes color as simply the final touch. I work with it exactly as if it were a material.”
Mathieu Peyroulet
Mathieu Peyroulet Ghilini, who has already shown work at Centre Pompidou, prefers basic geometric forms and likes to draw, which enables him to investigate formal aspects without the constraints of production processes.
Natacha&Sacha
The duo Natacha&Sacha is made up of Natacha Poutoux and Sacha Hourcade, who says: “We want to bring design into the sectors where you would not expect to find it today.” Hence the focus on electronic products for the home, which lose their anonymity and take on almost sculptural beauty, like the humidifier in glass resembling a vase, or the Briques radiator conceived like a sort of musical score.
Wendy Andreu
Finally, Wendy Andreu studied crafts at Ecole Boulle in Paris before moving on to the Design Academy of Eindhoven, where she began to develop Regen, “rain” in Dutch, a series of handbags, hats, coats, but also seats in waterproof fabric made by combining cotton and latex.
