French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has shown three collections highlighting European vernacular craft traditions at New York gallery Demisch Danant during NYCxDesign.
Duchaufour-Lawrance showed three collections under the Made In Situ collection at the downtown Manhattan gallery Demisch Danant.
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has shown three collections from Made In Situ in New York
Ranging from furniture lined with bark to beeswax candles where the wax becomes part of the candle, the pieces derive from Duchaufour-Lawrance's experience in small European communities and their ecosystems, as well as the unity between craftsmanship and natural processes.
The designer travelled to each place to act as an interpreter between different vernacular traditions and between the traditions and his audience. Furniture made with bark from the oak cork tree illustrated the designer's focus on natural processes
"My approach has been reversed," said Duchaufour-Lawrance.
"The idea no longer creates the piece of furniture or the object, it is the practice of the artisan and his knowledge of the material, which determines or imposes it."
"By moving from one design to another, as a designer I became more like a translator," he continued.
Healthy and burnt wood was used for the collection of furniture
Visitors entering the glass-walled entrance to the gallery first saw a collection of graphic work dedicated to the Made In Situ collection, which has been an ongoing pr...