/ Our urban furniture

/ Lucile SOUFFLET

Born in 1975, Lucile Soufflet studied design at La Cambre, in Brussels. The individual, the playful aspect and the relational side all form an important part in her research.
One part of her activity is dedicated to public space, with works such as Projet 105 (an artistic intervention in social housing) and the “bancs circulaires” “my place” and “soft bench” furniture designs, but she also addresses everyday domestic objects.

www.lucile.be

/ Christian GHION

Born in Montmorency the 18th of September 1958, Christian Ghion studied art at the école du Louvre, then furniture design at ENSCI.
Today, he is a graphic designer, artist, set designer, designer and interior designer – all in one.
He shares his taste for art and design by teaching at the école des Beaux Arts of Saint-Etienne, Reims and Rennes.

www.christianghion.com

/ Mikaël RIGAUDON

Born in 1977 in Montbrison, Mikaël Rigaudon studied iron forging and chose to focus on the industrial domain. In 1996, following a training in ornamental iron working, he won the WorldSkills Competition in the under-25 Youth category.
Thanks to his skill in combining his artistic sensibility with his mastery of industrial techniques, he quickly became a “guarantor” of quality in the development of new products within TF.
After carrying out numerous projects in collaboration with international designers, he is now developing his own line of outdoor furniture. In 2010-2011, he was made Technical Manager and integrated into the RDI team.

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/ Pierre Simon BOUIX

Pierre-Simon Bouix was born in Marseille in 1982. He studied product design in Strasbourg and naturally gravitated towards the industrial domain through his contacts.
For several years, he frequently collaborated with companies in this sector. Today, he works as an internal designer in TF as well as freelancing.
He is active in various areas, including urban furniture, signage, industrial products and even indoor furniture.
For Pierre-Simon, design must be an unexpected yet pragmatic response that is in-line with the universe in which it operates. It must always be on the edge between creativity and technology
Through his approach, he questions objects, their archetypes and the relationships we have with them.

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/ Cécile Planchais

Sculptor and designer in urban planning and landscaping: signs, material, light, furniture designed within the context of arrangements and facing a universe of new materials and technologies.
Research and design dedicated to a high environmental quality. Main references: City of Paris – upgrading the centre of La Baule and Fort Mahon.
An originator in the concept of lines for urban furniture, her design has been widely established since 1990 in France and Europe.

www.cecileplanchais.com

/ Alexandre MORONNOZ

Graduate of ENSCI, Les Ateliers in 2003, (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, Les Ateliers, Paris), Alexandre Moronnoz operates as a self-employed designer in Paris. He alternates research projects, commissions and collaborations, which allows him to explore a variety of areas.
Two urban furniture projects – Y in 2006 developed with VIA, and Interférences in 2007 for Brussels Environment – marked a strong line between the object and the space, in his personal research and his approach to projects. He approaches the object like an architecture, integrating the questions of context and environment into the design.
For him, design is an attentive act; he considers the entirety of his responses to be the generators of the environment.

www.moronnoz.com

/ Hanika PEREZ & Brice GENRE

PhDs in Applied Arts and winners of two international design competitions, the work of Anika Perez and Brice Genre of the collective a + b designers, questions in particular the potential of an object to allow one to “inhabit” it.

www.aplusbdesigners.com

After training first as a butcher and then as a carpenter, Michaël Bihain studied interior design at the Institut Saint-Luc Liège and the University of Hull. He subsequently set up his Studio BihainProd in London. Currently he works with various companies (Swedese, Oboe, Aqus, etc.) on developing furniture and accessories, and designed interiors. In parallel, he teaches interior design at the Institut Saint Luc Liège. Michaël’s work is featured regularly at international exhibitions. The design museums of Seoul and Liege have acquired some of his work for their permanent collections. Michaël’s designs are a focal point between our new lifestyles and the collective memory. They are characterised by evident lines and product autonomy.

www.bihain.com

/ Pierre MILLET

Graduate of ENSAPLV (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette), and operating as Architecte DPLG, in Nice, Pierre Millet collaborated with various architects and designers in Paris before setting up his own studio.
Leaning more towards commercial architecture and design, his projects always aim to address the relationship between the person and the place.

Since 1996, Marc Aurel has supported the development of public space and contributed to the emergence of an urban landscaping approach that honors spaces and their uses. He participated in the first major urban development project in France – the one undertaken by the city of Lyon in 1990 – and evolved in parallel with the biggest European manufacturers of street furniture. He’s the designer of the Paris T6 tramway (2014), the experimental bus station at the Gare de Lyon (2012), bench and lighting projects for Paris (2013), the Metz BRT (2013) and for the downtown districts of Beirut (2013), Poitiers and Toulouse (2013) kept pace with the development of his industry and is now contributing more than ever to the emergence of an urban character.

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Mikael RIGAUDON

Patrick BOURGE

Thomas STEF

Emmanuel FERLAY

/ Marielle LEMAISTRE

Graduated from in Paris in 1989. Both designer and interior designer, she approaches her work following a single thread: to design with simplicity innovative solutions that combine the beauty of objects and their daily use.
Her various realisations led to her being exhibited at the Salon des Artistes décorateurs, Designer Saturday and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Paris and Barcelona.

/ Marie Christine DORNER

In 1995, Marie Christine Dorner received the Grand prix du Design de la ville de Paris. She was decorated with the insignia of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2012. Her work and many travels led her to be recognised in Tokyo and London, among other locations. Returning to Paris at the end of 2008, she launched Dorner-Design, her second Parisian studio in the heart of the greatest Parisian cultural venues.

www.dorner-design.com/

/ Michel TORTEL

Trained as a DPLG Architect, Michel Tortel, established his first Design Agency in 1987. Since 1998, he has enlarged his activity to include the urban spaces and projects and then from 2002 to the architectural design.

His bicultural knowledge in industrial design and architecture gives him a singular technical, conceptual and formal approach mastering the scales and various products’ life cycles. His creative thinking is based on an analytic and technologic vision dedicated to the user experience through the usage, the forms and users’ desire.

His agency has designed numerous Best Sellers installed throughout the world, particularly with urban furniture and design for leader companies and big towns such as Shanghai, Delhi, Paris, Amiens, Milano, Porto Rico or Roma.

Michel Tortel was also a Design Lecturer in Graduate Schools of ENSET, Créapole and Strate College. He has received more than 40 international design awards.

www.michel-tortel.com/