Helping project leaders structure their business: a focus on The fundamentals of design and craft entrepreneurship

Bérénice Gentil is a ceramicist by trade. Through sculptural pieces designed to blend into living spaces, she has developed a unique practice as an ornamental ceramicist, where ceramics become a true language at the service of architecture and furniture. Having worked with clay since childhood, she has mastered the entire process, from the initial gestures to the glazing. Her practice combines artisanal expertise, poetic imagination, and a sensitive integration of the work into the space, straddling the boundary between craftsmanship and contemporary design.

Tiphaine Bedel is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris and ENSA Paris-Malaquais. She has developed an experimental practice at the crossroads of art, architecture, and the environment, linking design and manufacturing. Her urban, architectural, and sculptural projects explore the relationship with living things and the links between natural and built environments, through a multi-scale approach that is attentive to ecological, cultural, and territorial issues.

Pauline Zimer is the founder ofOLFACT Studio, an olfactory design (creation and strategy) company. After completing a master's degree in brand strategy, she trained in perfumery at ISIPCA (French school of higher education in perfumery, cosmetics, and food flavor formulation). Her studio explores the spatial and meaningful dimension of scent to reveal the soul of a place, in dialogue with architecture, the arts, and craftsmanship, and works with perfume houses, artisans, cultural venues, and event projects. She approaches perfume creation as an art form, with each creation being a unique olfactory piece.

Linda Ouhbi handcrafts stoneware pieces using modeling and flat coiling techniques. Her slow and precise work emphasizes balanced shapes and delicate walls, revealing traces of her movements and the passage of time. Inspired by utilitarian objects, her pieces become sculptural volumes, nourished by ancestral know-how and contemporary forms. Winner of the Visa Kyoto Prize in 2018, she exhibits in Japan, Europe, and the United States, affirming her place on the contemporary ceramics scene.

Endza Kizirian specializes in the eco-design of reusable packaging and materials research applied to the cultural sector. Her work is based on a cross-disciplinary approach combining design, logistics, and preventive conservation, enabling prototyping in real-world conditions. Founderof Envlhop, a project that has become a brand, she develops innovative circular logistics solutions for transporting works of art, combining technical performance, environmental responsibility, and accessibility.

Clément Pasquier has a background in sociology and interior design, and explores the relationships between space, objects, and users. His creations, often inspired by a detail or a sensation, are developed through experimentation, drawing, and manufacturing. He designs objects and furniture as sensitive forms where function and poetry coexist, and extends his practice to scenography and spatial design, in a constant dialogue between rigor and intuition.

Lucie Chamouton is skilled in the use of color and lettering in space, designing compositions that structure the atmosphere and identity of places. Self-employed for eight years, she creates window displays and murals. More recently trained in decorative painting, she was awarded the Prix Savoir-faire en transmission by the BDMMA and spent a year with Enseigne Brillo, while now developing her business in Paris.

Diane Debold specializes in knotwork, which she uses as a building block to create supple textiles made entirely by hand. With a degree in product design, she has developed a practice based on precision of movement, research, and experimentation. She designs custom pieces for design, furniture, decor, and interior architecture, exploring materials, textures, and reliefs to renew her textile language.