What a pleasure to welcome you to the Galerie des Ateliers de Paris for the launch of the Kawayama collection. A range of contemporary furniture pieces and art pieces that transposes the Japanese tatami into the world of minimalist interior decoration.
I was very happy to welcome you in this beautiful apartment in rue Saint Maur, to present you to the first 11 Tatalismans and discuss the story and meaning of this practice which nourishes my work as a designer.
During Maison & Objet 2018, I was invited to present the Kawayama project alongside Mitsuru Yokoyama with whom I collaborated. You can now watch the conference entitled Paris-Kyoto : The Experience of Design and Know-How, and hosted by Sylvie Adigard.
The table and stools from the Kawayama collection are part of the Innovation Beyond Space and Time exhibition at the Blancs Manteaux Gallery in Paris. A selection of creations highlighting Japanese know-how in an innovative and remarkable way.
Follow me to Kyoto, where I explored the know-how and the surprising properties of the tatami during my artistic residency. Alongside Mitsuru Yokoyama, I experimented new shaping techniques to give a new dimension to this iconic element of Japanese culture.
The bowl from the Chim Collection was selected to be part of the exhibition Le Paris des Talents at the Paris City Hall.
How can design contribute to the development of more sustainable crafts ? During my conference at Beirut Design Week, I presented the strategies that we tested and developed on this topic through the Future Living Studio project, in Hanoi and Phnom Penh. I also led a two-day workshop on the levers of innovation in the field of crafts.
Present on every street corner in Hanoi, I have always been fascinated by the elegance and finesse of Vietnamese birdcages. So I went to meet the craftsmen of the village where these are made, driven by the desire to discover their ancestral know-how and imagine together aerial objects for the contemporary habitat.
