Vincent Dubourg

Vincent Dubourg says he draws inspiration from capitals like Paris and New York, which he visits regularly, before processing his experiences in his isolated workshop in Creuse. A graduate of Arts-Deco, in 2006 he became the youngest artist at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London and in 2007 imagined The Bird Car for the Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris. He then began an international career and exhibited successively at Design Miami/Basel in Switzerland and at Tajan in Paris. In 2011, he won the PAD Moët Hennessy prize in London.

For many years, in the solitude of his large workshop, the artist-artisan has been developing his prototypes and shaping art objects which do not start out with a function: this only appears in a second phase, thus questioning traditional contemporary furniture design. Vincent Dubourg creates organic, dynamic and sculptural forms that tell a story of the mutation of reality, and inalienable possession of nature over society. Between furniture, sculptures, architecture and staging, he offers a new reading of object design.

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ANNE BONY est historienne de l’art, spécialisée dans les arts décoratifs. Elle est le maître d’œuvre et l’auteur, aux Éditions du Regard, d’une importante collection consacrée aux arts décoratifs du xxe siècle par décennie : Les Années 10, Les Années 20… jusqu’aux Années 90. Elle est également l’auteur d’Ingrid Donat, Éditions Norma, 2016.

NICOLAS ALQUIN est sculpteur, dessinateur et illustrateur.

SARAH SCHLEUNING est conservateur et curateur des arts décoratifs et du design au High Museum of Art, Atlanta.