1. Where were you born and where are you from ?

I was born near Paris, France, I grew up in Hyères, on the French Riviera and I now live in the southwest of France.

2. What is your first memory connected to the art world ?

It was during a visit to the Pompidou Center in Paris, with school, I must have been 4 or 5  years old, I don’t remember the exhibition at all but only the architecture of this incredible place.

3. Have you always worked in the art/design field ?

No, I have been working in the creative industry for 12 years. Previously, I worked with children suffering from serious illnesses, cancer, or degenerative diseases. It’s a job that I  didn’t have the strength to return to when I had my children. So I turned to a passion activity where everyday life, even if it is serious, is much lighter.

4. What led you to the design creation ?

I come from a family of creatives and artisans. I spent my childhood observing these skills, in sewing, tapestry, jewelry, cabinetmaking, welding… I learned at a young age to make lots of things, and to try lots of techniques.

5. How would you describe your creative process and it influences ?

Either I start with a material that I find, and then I imagine an object based on it, or I think about a piece that I want to add to my collections. Everything starts from a desire. And then I  pose all this by drawing. Hopefully, my ideas are precise and it only takes 2-3 drawings to move to the prototype stage. But I can also spend several years designing an object or a work that I really want to make.

6. Could you describe a typical day of your work ?

I have two activities, one of artistic direction, designs and models, which I love. And the  typical days of this first activity are made up of drawings, prototyping, testing materials,  shapes and learning new techniques which allow me to work with raw materials that I do not  yet know. 

The second activity is that linked to my brand of decorative objects Georges, to the  management of the factory, and for this reason, it is the management of human resources, the  organization of production and administrative and accounting work. Much less glamorous!

7. Why did you choose the specific materials you work with ?

They are favorites, a discovery of a material, and a desire to work on it. That’s all.

8. What are the technical particularities of your creations ?

I think their particularity is that they are raw. This is not a sanitized, perfect, cold contemporary design. These are handcrafted pieces made with the most natural materials possible, worked in such a way as to retain their rough edges. even sublimate them.

9. What advices could you give to beginning artists who would like to create sculptural design works ?

I don’t think I have any advice because nothing is set in stone, ultimately, and I really learn every day. Maybe stay curious. not to lose your curiosity and your thirst for learning.

10. If your works had to belong to a design movement, in which one would you define it ?

I do not know…

11. What designers and artists have influenced you ?

I like Le Corbusier for his radicalism, Paul Quéré for everything, Valentine Schlegel for the forms of his creations and there are still many…but it is above all the color of the walls of  Italian buildings, the harsh light of the French Riviera where I grew up, the Villa Noailles, the tiled floor, the limestone coves, the door curtains to protect from the heat…

12. What contemporary designers do you appreciate ?

Dimore Studio and Dries Van Noten (not really a designer), always, I love their colors so much.

13. What contemporary artists (in any kind of art) have you been inspired by ?

Can Louise Bourgeois and Ruth Asawa be considered contemporaries? I had the chance to see their work on several occasions and what emotion…

14. If you had to summarize your creations in one word or sentence, what would it be ?

Raw

Proust Questionnaire with very short answers (one or a few words) :
(The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Other historical figures who have answered confession albums are Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Cézanne…)