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Born into a family of artists – her father a painter from Reunion Island, her mother a pianist, her grandfather an architect – Ingrid Donat was brought up in Sweden before moving to Paris in 1975. After briefly taking private drawing lessons, she met the sculptor Sylva Bernt, companion of André Arbus, who introduced her to sculpture and the decorative arts, but also personalities such as Diego Giacometti, Sam Szafran and César, who encouraged her to create her own works.
Beginning with small papier-mâché figures, her sculptures evolved over time and gained in technique and maturity, before she turned to the creation of furniture. Ingrid Donat is marked by the great tradition of French decorative arts, including by Armand-Albert Rateau, as well as by artists such as Gustav Klimt to whom she dedicated a collection in 2002. Her complex vocabulary is enriched by notably embracing the African and Creole decorative repertoire. Her pieces in bronze, aluminum or wood, or often parchment – tables, consoles, bookcases, wall panels, chairs and lighting – are inlaid with motifs, spheres or tactile scarifications. These give this very precise work a singular aesthetic: for example, her Engrenages chest of drawers is made up of three drawers triggering a series of seven heavy bronze gears visible on the exterior sides of the piece of furniture.
Exhibited by the Bernard Dulon gallery in France in 1998, she was spotted by Barry Friedman who regularly showed her work in the United States from 2003 onwards. Represented by the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Ingrid Donat is highly appreciated by major international decorators like Peter Marino, who integrate her pieces into numerous designs for Dior, Cartier, etc.
• 25 x 30.5 cm
• 288 pages
• 200 illustrations
• Cardboard and embossed cover, gilded edge
• ISBN: 978-2-91554-2950
Text in French only
ANNE BONY est historienne de l’art, spécialisée dans les arts décoratifs. Elle est le maître d’oeuvre 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 auteur du Design, une histoire du design de 1851 à nos jours (Larousse, 2004). 2016.
En partenariat avec la Carpenters Workshop Gallery