Playground, design meets sport

With a dual background in crafts and design at the École Boulle, first in cabinetmaking and marquetry, then in event design, he has developed an acute sensitivity to issues linking craft and innovation.
Backed by his technical and conceptual skills, his creative practice is based on the exploration of the mechanical, aesthetic and functional properties of materials.
The projects he leads, most often in collaboration, are the fruit of a vision that favors unprecedented creative approaches, between expertise and experimentation.

Sophie Cure has been developing a transdisciplinary graphic design practice since 2012. Nurtured by the performing arts, she conducts artistic research into language and play alongside her commissioned work, which she develops through exhibitions, performances and publications.

Clémentine Fort is an associate artist at Le Bel Ordinaire. Since 2005, she has been developing a body of work involving sculpture, photography and writing. She is currently creating objects that mobilize and recompose the graphic vocabularies of modes of circulation and routes in specific areas.

Founded in 2015, the CLUZEL / PLUCHON office was created by Sébastien Cluzel and Morgane Pluchon. Their approach is to create everyday objects by questioning their use, their perception in space as well as their mode of production. To design functional, durable and elegant products, their creations are guided by an aesthetic of economy and use. Understanding the industrial and artisanal tools at our disposal is always the first step in the development process.

5-5 is a global design studio founded in 2003 by Vincent Baranger, Jean-Sébastien Blanc, Anthony Lebossé and Claire Renard. Today, Studio 5-5 brings together multidisciplinary creative talents in a sustainable design approach. They help companies and local authorities to reinvent themselves and face up to the challenges of ecological transition.

Bina Baitel, Architecte DPLG graduate of the École National Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette, founded her design and architecture studio in Paris in 2006.
Her work has won numerous awards, including the Prix du VIA in 2008, the Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris and the Premier Prix de la Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie d'Aubusson in 2012, and the FD100 French Design Award in 2024.

Inga Sempé is a French designer born in Paris and graduated from ENSCI-Les Ateliers in 1993.

Since her residency at Villa Medici in Rome in 2000, she has worked as a freelancer. She began collaborating with Italian companies Cappellini and Edra. These were followed by other French, Japanese, Italian and Scandinavian companies such as HAY, Ligne Roset, Wästberg, Magis, Alessi, LucePlan, Mutina, Røros, Moustache, Svenskt Tenn, iittala...

Ionna Vautrin is a French designer whose creations combine softness and precision of line in the service of public and private spaces. Her work is an encounter between poetry and industry, where each creation is part of a common style.
The success of the Binic lamp published by Foscarini in 2010 drew attention to her work. At the request of the SNCF, she designed the TGV lamp installed in French high-speed trains. The Diocese of Paris entrusts her with the design of the 1,500 chairs that will welcome the faithful to Notre-Dame de Paris when it reopens at the end of 2024.

Pauline Deltour was born in 1983. After studying object design at the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, she worked with German designer Konstantin Grcic before opening her own studio in Paris in 2010.

Since then, she has multiplied her collaborations, always with a design, whatever the product, of apparent simplicity and controlled elegance, but not devoid of ingenuity. 

The artistic facet, which is so dear to him, is joined by a more practical dimension, resolutely focused on the user. The precision and sharpness of a line that is both strong and delicate, the search for the right line, the choice of colors and materials, assemblies and compositions all contribute to the identity of his work.

Pauline Deltour is often cited as a major figure in contemporary French design. The untimely death in September 2021 of the shooting star of design provoked a great deal of reaction. Since then, her studio has continued to bring projects to life, celebrating her talent and perpetuating her legacy.

Steven Leprizé is a 35-year-old creative cabinetmaker, trained at the Ecole Boulle where he has also been teaching since 2011. In 2009, he founded ARCA, a workshop renowned for its innovative use of wood. Steeped in tradition and science, he develops innovative materials: inflatable wood, marquetry techniques... He works in his 600m2 workshop near Paris with a team of 10 craftsmen and designers for whom projects have no limits.

Following a degree in political science, a master's degree and 5 years' experience in technological innovation and entrepreneurship, Elia Pradel launched Anicet (Bijoux). Through the recovery and reuse of antique jewelry, Elia creates compositions that form genuine rhythmic structures inspired by her Creole cultural heritage. 

Anicet proposes to renew and weave links between forgotten know-how and the demands of contemporary creation. Alongside its collections, Elia is developing partnerships in the visual and performing arts, fashion and design.

Alexandre Moronnoz graduated from ENSCI-Les Ateliers in 2003. He works as a designer in Paris. Through projects, he develops a contextual approach to design.

His first urban seating projects won him several awards: Étoile du design, Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris.

Urban design, which he is particularly fond of, is a rich and complex field, a marvel for a surveyor's profession. The PODIUM project is a fine iteration of this.

Founded in 2015, MARTIAL MARQUET STUDIO, is an architectural SASU that crosses architecture, scenography and design.

For several years now, many of the studio's creations have been geared towards the design of convivial and welcoming spaces. Produced as part of urban and landscape developments, public or cultural facilities, perennial or ephemeral, hybrid and evolving, the studio's constructions advocate efficiency of form and use, placing the user's experience at the heart of the project.

Sandrine Nugue is a typeface designer. In 2015, she designedInfini, the first public commission for a typographic typeface initiated by the Cnap.
Several of her typefaces have been awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design by the Type Directors Club of New York.
In 2018, she received the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris as a young designer.
In 2024, her typeface Infini was chosen for the Pantheonization of Missak & Mélinée Manouchian.
Her work is part of the collections of Cnap and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Unqui designers is a design collective founded in 2009 by Arnaud le Cat, Esther Bacot, Luther Quenum and Coralie Frick, and incubated at Les Ateliers de Paris in 2010. 

The aesthetics of their creations serve a purpose, with simplicity and lightness, while supporting a strong purpose: to develop a new way of being, acting and learning.

This approach has enabled them to win prestigious awards such as the Prix Émile Hermès and the Prix Jean Prouvé, and to register six patents.

Céleste Durry is a stylist and artistic director. After graduating from the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, followed by a 15-year collaboration with designer XULY.Bët, she created Studio Rice, a cross-cultural, unisex, timeless and singular brand.

Julien Colombieris a French artist who lives and works in Paris. Strongly influenced by the world of graffiti, Japanese art, Matisse and Keith Haring, his media range from canvas to paper, via wall, wood or installation.

Trajectoire Studio produces artistic actions around sport. Democratizing art through passion, creating encounters and dialogue, and promoting responsible sport are the essential values that guide the studio's thinking.

Juliette Berthonneau is a textile designer based in Paris. She develops innovative three-dimensional fabrics for interior decoration, architecture and art. Using three-dimensional weaves and pleated surfaces, she creates self-supporting, sculptural textiles. Keen to improve textile production methods, she explores both industrial technologies and artisanal know-how. She uses folds to structure materials, playing on contrasts between volume and lightness, as well as on notions of solidity and softness.

Victor Guerithault, a designer specializing in kites and aerial structures, is a graduate of EESAB Rennes. Fascinated by light structures, architecture and kites, he has found a way to dust off aerodynamic systems in a playful way. Here, the aim is not simply to fly your kite, but to build it from A to Z, and transform it in just a few minutes. Based on 3D parts specially created for these kites, over 300 different shapes can be built. 

Founded in 2011 by André Fontes and Guillaume Lehoux, the Noir Vif design studio creates and brings to life objects and services that combine creativity, relevance of use and environmental demands. The studio supports local authorities, craftsmen and manufacturers, from the (re)definition of design needs through to the production phase when necessary. Noir Vif received the Dialogues award for the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main® 2019.

SLAU is a design studio specializing in ecological transition and social innovation. SLAU imagines and designs multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary projects. It was founded by designer Laurine Schott, who, after an initial career in the performing arts, went on to study at the Beaux-arts de Lyon and ENSCI-Les Ateliers. Since then, she has been developing a practice based on design as a social tool for critical questioning and discussion.

Marianna Ladreyt, a French designer born in 1990, grew up in Six-Fours-les-Plages, in the south of France. 

Her eponymous Paris-based design studio, founded in 2019, develops ready-to-wear, accessories and furniture. A broad prism of objects, imbued with humor and innovation, which she also applies in collaboration with other brands and foundations.

The concept of upcycling and reclaiming materials is fundamental to his studio and an integral part of the creative process. 

His latest collections include protean objects made from repurposed beach buoys.