Philippe Beauparlant

Philippe Beauparlant

Philippe is both designer and entrepreneur. His creativity for his business is fueled by the same passion that drives his product design and interiors. Constant travelling, a continuous desire to try something new and family values are some of the elements that inspire his work.

Philippe is best known for finding creative answers and reinventing interior spaces. He is often credited with finding solutions that not only work for him – they work for the client.

Pudelskern

"We design products and spaces"

Pudelskern strongly believe in the necessity to add more layers to a design. Pudelskern likes to tell stories with objects. They can be about sustainable production, hand-craft techniques or material aspects. Pudelskern loves to go deep into our projects and work profoundly for a result of high standards. Pudelskern works together since 2006. Pudelskern is made up of members coming from architecture, design and cabinet-making. Part of Pudelskern studio is a material experimenting lab, which is the base for research and development work. Every project is started with a thorough analysis.

PHILIP MICHAEL WOLFSON

PHILIP MICHAEL WOLFSON, born 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, studied at Cornell University, School of Architecture, Ithaca, New York and the Architectural Association, London, England.
On graduation, PHILIP MICHAEL WOLFSON worked with Zaha Hadid at the outset of her career,leading design teams on numerous projects, and establishing a strong collaboration with her office which subsequently spanned some 20 years.
Since setting up his own practice in 1991, PHILIP MICHAEL WOLFSON has worked throughout Europe and the USA , predominantly on residential interiors and exhibition/gallery design pieces.
PHILIP MICHAEL WOLFSON designs are radical and greatly inspired by the early experiments of the
Russian and Italian Modernist movements. PHILIP MICHAEL WOLFSON combines a unique approach to design, as informed by the dynamics of fracture and fragmentation – layering and manipulating his materials into fluid shapes and forms, where shadow and reflection are an integral part of the seduction of the work.
The exquisite use of noble materials, as well as new materials, brings
dynamic elegance and an individual contemporary feeling that enhances his unique approach toPHILIP MICHAEL WOLFSON own ideal of design.

Peter Ghyczy

Born in Budapest, Peter Ghyczy started his career as an architect in Germany as head of the legendary “design center”. Peter Ghyczy is famous as the designer of the “Garden Egg Chair”. This chair has reached iconic status and has become part of the collection of many museums in the world including the Vitra Design Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Peter Ghyczy has been living in the Netherlands for many years and this is where he founded the company.
In an age of mass production and fast paced trends, where product life cycles are shortening and look increasingly alike, Peter Ghyczy aims to create enduring values.

Peter Ghyczy design and manufacture a timeless furniture collection of distinctive clarity and formal rigour, delicately balancing elegance, beauty and modernity – a collection for the connoisseur with a sense of life’s essentials, who values unique objects and expects furniture design to move beyond the merely fashionable. Novel interpretations of classic forms, imposing, high-grade materials and solid craftsmanship work together to give every piece a unique shine. Patina is part of the design. The characteristic combinations of brass, aluminium, wood and stainless steel with glass are custom-made and handcrafted in Holland.

Pierre Paulin

At an international furniture show organised by Kho Liang le, Pierre Paulin (1927) made a considerable impression with a contemporary shell fauteuil. Shortly after the show, he became a freelance designer for Artifort. This marked the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration. What makes his designs so distinctive is their striking sculptural shape, which earned Paulin many prizes worldwide. His work remains timeless and progressive even today. This is not form for form’s sake but applied design. With comfort as the constant starting-point.

Artifort still includes many of Paulin’s designs dating from the nineteen-sixties and seventies in its permanent collection. His work can be admired in museums throughout the world. Apart from furniture, he also designed interiors for the French presidents Pompidou and Mitterrand in the Elysée Palace in Paris.

Pierre Paulin died on 13 June 2009 in a hospital in Montpellier (France). The French president Sarkozy honoured him as "the man who made design an art".

In November 2009, Paulin was posthumously awarded the distinction of "Royal Designer for Industry" (RDI).

Pablo Reinoso

French-Argentine artist and designer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1955. Lives and works in Paris since 1979. Pablo Reinoso has practiced sculpture since he was a teenager. For a long time he worked mainly with wood, slate, marble, brass, and steel. He focused his search on articulation and metonymy as well as on space and time. In 1995 he decided to extend his practice to other materials. This radical change allowed his sculptures to rid themselves of the obligations of a matter. To "materialize" this change, he chose air.

Made out of cloth, his installation are divided into three metaphorical breathing typologies, namely, Breathing, Persistent, and Contracting. As an example, Breathing installations are equipped with fans that are turned on at regular intervals, creating an impression of visual and auditory breathing (Breathing monochromes series begun in 1995). At the same time, they show the interdependent relationship between breathing and life.

It is also in the 1990s when Pablo Reinoso consolidates his position as a designer. He designes furniture (Pocketable, 1998) and a great number of objects, especially since 1997, when he starts a new path between commercial strategy and art within the LVMH group. He becomes artistic director of Parfums Givenchy in 2000, and Parfums Loewe in 2002, where he designes perfume bottles and cosmetic lines. At the same time, he creates a bench for the Japanese city of Fukuroi (2000), in the outskirts of the soccer stadium that becomes a venue for the World Cup in 2002. He creates a new Leage Cup for the Ligue de Football Professionnel (2003), and works on the League's institutional image.

In time, the artist creates installations that present themselves as more absolute devices (Dr. Lacan's office, 1998). Above all, these installations question our view of ourselves through the introduction of new materials such as mirrors (The other is me, 1998 ; The observed, 2002). Liquid crystal glass offers the potential for both transparency and opacity. The alternation between these two states creates an effect of visual breathing that reveals at each moment the structure or volume of the work (The living room II, 2001). The elements made out of cloth are moving forms that contrast with the solid structure (between organic and inert) of wood or metal, as in Las Meninas : Horizontal exercise - a sculptural device - or the works of the traveling exhibit El final del eclipse [The end of the eclipse], shown in Spain and Latin America since 2001.

Used to changing paths, the artist show us that function and form are not evident. In time, an objectivation of his art work emerges. He combines his work as sculptor and designer, reinterpreting furniture and placing it in new paradigms (The last chair, 2001).

Since 2002, his installations reveal more than ever the sensivity of his work (Ashes to ashes, 2002 ; A la mesa, 2003 ; My 97 sq ft Saint Sulpice square, 2003), insidiously pushing the imaginary toward the border with chaos.

Guided by his reflection on psychoanalysis, which was already implicit in his work, Pablo Reinoso develops an analysis of his views of the discipline in his Hygienic psy series (published in Le Monde 2, March 13, 2004).

For Designer's day (Paris, June 2004), whose theme was the five senses, Reinoso conceived an installation linked to the unconscious. The project articulated around the psychoanalitic device (the armchair and the couch) to evoke a basic psychoanalytic concept - the unconscious. Each device, set up with Poltrona Frau show room, included systems that allowed the expression of the five senses through the broadcasting of sounds and images and fragrance diffusers. Two scents created for the occasion represented "perfumes-evocations" that were a product of the artist's unconscious. Pablo Reinoso also made a video with the participation of Blanca Li. In this work, psychoanalytic sessions follow one another, but the voice has been purposefully replaced by a bodily language .
Pablo Reinoso website