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Resident profile - Audrey Bigouin
Audrey Bigouin, founder of Audrey B. Studio, a research studio dedicated to flexible materials and their assembly.
In residence at Les Ateliers de Paris, Audrey B. Studio is a research studio dedicated to soft materials and their assembly. Founded by Audrey Bigouin in 2021, the studio proposes a decompartmentalized approach to know-how and develops signature materials for fashion, design and architecture.
A graduate of ESAD in Reims with a master's degree in object design, Audrey Bigouin has built her career around object design, textile creation and leather goods. From the start of her career, her sensitivity to exceptional craftsmanship steered her towards luxury leather goods. In 2017, she joined the leather goods studio of Maison Cartier, reinterpreting its DNA through the creation of volumes and ennoblements on leather and textiles.
A few years later, she founded her own studio, driven by the desire to open up her field of expression and offer a singular approach to material research.

Passionate about puzzles and construction games, Audrey finds structuring inspiration for her practice in the work of Kengo Kuma, Issey Miyake and Irving Harper.
In her quest for harmony and precision, she looks to assemblies as a means of producing deep-rooted visual and tactile effects that tell us about their making. Whether it's in the structure of a flower, the assembly of a framework or the folding of a pop-up book, the designer draws on diverse inspirations to propose mechanisms that are both rigorous and elegant.

The studio defends a cross-disciplinary approach, where traditional purism gives way to hybrid know-how adapted to contemporary challenges. Braiding, folding, leatherwork, 3D, embroidery - the studio finds its uniqueness in this cross-fertilization of skills. Somewhere between a puzzle and an enigma, the resulting materials offer a three-dimensional imaginary world embodying the DNA of our customers.

Its news
Among current projects, this summer the designer is leading the "Felt Playground" workshop at Boisbuchet, in co-construction with the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie d'Aubusson and the Lainamac industry association.
She also participates in the Edo Tokyo Kirari program run by the Bureau du Design, de la Mode et des Métiers d'Art, and collaborates with Japanese companies with ancestral know-how. Their collaboration will be exhibited next January at Maison&Objet.