{"id":10017096,"date":"2024-01-15T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T09:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/?p=10017096"},"modified":"2024-01-15T09:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T09:29:42","slug":"designer-of-the-year-2024-mathieu-lehanneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/designer-of-the-year-2024-mathieu-lehanneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer of the Year 2024: Mathieu Lehanneur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Art,\u00a0design<\/a>,\u00a0science\u00a0and\u00a0technology\u00a0are intelligently intertwined in\u00a0Mathieu Lehanneur<\/a>\u2019s work. A veritable all-rounder whose\u00a0creativity\u00a0knows no bounds, he is one of the rare designers to have secured total design<\/a> freedom by launching his own brand. A quest for the absolute, celebrated by\u00a0Maison&Objet.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c30 years ago, when Maison&Objet first opened, I was just starting out as a design student. Even before I\u2019d actually designed anything, getting to the trade fair was already my goal, if not my Holy Grail!\u201d \u2013 Mathieu Lehanneur<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Could French designers be on a quest to create their own iconic object? As a youngster,\u00a0Mathieu Lehanneur<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0spent many years honing his craft much like a knight of the round table\u2026\u00a0\u201c30 years later, I\u2019ve achieved precisely what I wanted, even exceeding my expectations,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he exclaims. And 2024 will see him become crowned the\u00a0Maison&Objet Designer of the Year<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Round, square, oval\u2026 His design book may be overflowing with\u00a0tables<\/strong>, but pre-existing silhouettes certainly don\u2019t feature in his design vocabulary. His\u00a0Ocean Memories furniture collection<\/strong>\u00a0captures the relief of waves and currents in marble, leaving them seemingly frozen in time. His\u00a0S.M.O.K.E. lamp<\/strong>\u00a0appears to imprison a cloud of smoke in a glass bauble, its curvaceous lines a pure celebration of fleeting transparency. His\u00a0Deep Time chandelier<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0darts through the air resembling a flash of lightning. Mathieu Lehanneur gleans his inspiration from\u00a0science<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0nature<\/strong>, an endless source of magic for anyone capable of taming their charm.<\/p>\n

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His most iconic object? Mathieu Lehanneur is more interested in creating magic.\u00a0\u201cIn a world that\u2019s overflowing with objects, all the materials used have been around since the dawn of time. I like playing around with them to make them express something slightly different. I want to create magic, but in the real world you need a few little tricks up your sleeve to make the magic happen\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The designer has consequently surrounded himself with\u00a0scientists<\/strong>,\u00a0engineers<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0artisans<\/strong>\u00a0to perfect his sleight of hand. An appetite for research is something he discovered very early on. Whilst completing his studies at the\u00a0French National Institute for Advanced Studies in Industrial Design<\/strong>\u00a0(Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure de Cr\u00e9ation Industrielle \u2013 ENSCI-Les Ateliers), his final year thesis focused on\u00a0therapeutic design<\/a><\/strong>, a project now referenced at the\u00a0MOMA<\/strong>\u00a0in New York.<\/p>\n

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A few years later, he worked hand-in-hand with Harvard professor David Edwards to design\u00a0Andrea<\/strong>, an object that uses living plants to purify the air, based on tests carried out by\u00a0NASA<\/strong>. Today, Mathieu Lehanneur is capable of balancing a one-tonne marble table top on nothing more than a few glass baubles.\u00a0\u201cIt was an extremely precarious idea to begin with. I needed some good fairies to make it happen,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he comments. In this instance, the sprinkling of stardust came from a master glassmaker who agreed to help him with his research. 2024 already looks set to be a big year. Mathieu Lehanneur has just opened\u00a0La Factory<\/strong>, the design office-workshop from which he designs, experiments, assembles and ships out everything that bears his name. He has designed the Olympic torch for the\u00a0Paris Olympics<\/strong>. He will be celebrating his 50th birthday and\u00a0Maison&Objet<\/strong>\u00a0will be awarding him their highest accolade.<\/p>\n

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