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Imagining in Chairs
CLARISSE DEMORY
Creative Director
PARIS
Clarisse Demory likes to follow her intuition. She feels she has
unconsciously memorized billions of interiors and pictures and
shapes and colors, and somehow resurrects these when working.
She respects the past and likes to recycle what is already there
instead of rebuilding, even if this poses challenges. Clarisse says
that this limitation pushes her to work with shapes, colors and
materials she would not necessarily have chosen. It gives a soul and
some charm she would not be able to create herself – “I believe that
the past can teach us modernity. Pieces with history are an infinite
library that should make us humble as designers and artists”.
Clarisse has a lively imagination when it comes to furniture.
For her, a chair can be many things. Each one has its own personality
and use. Her favorite is her kitchen chair where she enjoys her
morning routine of coffee, mail, radio, iPhone and brioche or, as
she puts it, “Being greedy with life – when I open my eyes, the first
thing I visualize is that chair waiting for me in the kitchen”.
Chairs are my ‘four-legged companions’ that I collect
and find a use for – to me, a chair can also be a table or
bookstand or a display area or clotheshorse.
