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Patrick Norguet
Square
French industrial designer Patrick Norguet has
taken an unusual career path in his pursuit of the
flawless line. He’s well known among the big names
of high-end designer furniture, both in France and
internationally. A fateful meeting with Giulio
Cappellini in 1999 and the subsequent release of
his famous Rainbow Chair propelled Patrick into the
top ranks of the design elite.
There’s a very French elegance and ‘fittingness’
about his pieces, whether they’re intended for the
masses or a more upscale market.
Norguet’s work has won a long string of awards,
along with a place in the permanent collection of
New York’s MoMA and in the Museum of Modern
Art in Miami.
In creating his timeless, beautifully balanced
objects, he draws inspiration from the world around
him, and from the generous spirit of people he meets.
© Dimitri Coste
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Stéphane Joyeux
Creative Director of Roger Pradier® since 2001,
Stéphane Joyeux holds a diploma from the
Creapole-Esdi Design School.
With a solid grounding in every stage of the
industrial design process – research, dimensional
modelling, prototype testing – he’s an expert at
developing technical solutions. He has undertaken
collaborative gigs in the automotive, sports and
electrical industries with the likes of Plasto Design,
Salomon, and Arnould, so his intuitive approach is
informed by additional know-how specific to these fields.
It was Stéphane who launched Roger Pradier®’s
contemporary ranges of outdoor lighting. Taking the
helm of the entire design process, he does his share
of sketching and modelling, and provides creative
oversight every step of the way.
Excellence and utility are his watchwords. He
enjoys balancing ingenuity with design to address
the ethical, environmental and sustainability issues
inherent in lighting engineering. For Stéphane,
every lamp represents an aesthetic challenge,
embodying his personal commitment to design
first-rate products that meet today’s standards on
criteria like energy efficiency and longevity.
He’s known for the innovative form and playful feel
of his lighting fixtures, including Equix, Grumo, Brick,
Bamboo, Sherlock, RP195, and the Ibuk wall light,
which won the 2015 VIA Award for its originality.
His design approach interweaves childhood
memories
and
innovation
with
technical
understanding, so that after the initial surprise, you
see that utility is the only remaining reason...
matali crasset
La Hutte
matali crasset, an industrial designer by training,
experiences design as a form of seeking. The
offbeat stance she takes as her starting point
informs her interventions in the everyday, and
prompts imagined scenarios for the future.
Her knowledgeable – yet always fresh – worldview
leads her to question the unassailable nature of
conventions, all the better to break free of them. She
operates in many spheres, her interventions always
linked to her encounters. Eclectic collaborations
– from handicrafts to contemporary art, from
the textile industry to fair trade – have led to her
working in scenography, furniture, architecture,
graphic design and art. So far, her associates on
various projects include artist Peter Halley, up-
and-coming designer furniture companies, local
authorities (Geneva Cité Library, the town of Istres)
and local communities.
With this wealth of creative practice under her
belt, matali is now veering towards increasingly
participative projects, working at both local and
global scale, and in rural as well as urban settings.
Her fictional inventions, her narratives, and the
meaning of her work are essentially bound up with
the question of community and living together.
Cédric Ragot
Tank
A multi-talented French designer influenced by
contemporary art, Cédric Ragot has marked the
design world with the sensitive, intuitive aesthetics
of his sober objects.
This prolific designer set up Cédric Ragot Design
Studio in 2002 to work alongside big-name brands
on development and positioning.
A very intuitive designer, Ragot has been recognised
with numerous accolades.
Some of his pieces are in the Fonds National d’Art
Contemporain and on display in Paris, Hannover,
Vienna, New York, or Milan.
With his latest design, Tank, he leaves the abiding
imprint of his talent on Roger Pradier®.
© Tristan Everhard
Normal Studio
Séléné
Working together as Normal Studio, design duo Jean-
François Dingjian and Eloi Chafaï promote a kind of
design stripped back to its most fundamental. Their
name dissimulates a yearning for perfect form. The
timeless objects they produce fly in the face of fashion
and posturing, reflecting their strong belief in the
social and cultural values of design.
By 2016 when Normal Studio celebrated its first
decade on the French scene, it already had a pile
of accolades to its name. The Design/Enterprise
award at Designers’ Day 2010 honoured the team’s
collaboration with Tolix, where they were creative
directors from 2007 to 2013. They won 2010 Designer
of the Year at Maison & Objet’s Now! Show, followed
by the Elle Deco Design Award, and numerous VIA
labels. Some of their products are now held in the
collections of the French Museum of Decorative Arts
and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (France’s
state-owned contemporary art collection).
Normal Studio designed Séléné for Roger Pradier®,
a range that was awarded the 2011 VIA Label.
© Morgane Le Gall
© Julien Jouanjus
© Arnaud Childeric
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