The winners of the Prix de la Jeune Création Métiers d’Art at Maison&Objet

The winners receive personalized support, substantial media visibility, and access to prestige international trade fairs such as the Maison&Objet fair, REVELATIONS, the Biennale for Fine Craft and Design, and the Salon International du Patrimoine Culturel (International Cultural Heritage Fair). 
This year, one winner illustrates the incredible creative explosion underway in fine craft fields and the key role that the young, contemporary scene is playing in this. Come meet Ludivine Loursel, Cane Glassblower and Bronze Artist, in September, at the heart of the CRAFT sector.

The winners of the Prix de la Jeune Création Métiers d’Art are selected by a panel of experts and fine craft professionals whose composition varies each year:

• Stéphane GALERNEAU, Art Foundryman and President of d’Ateliers d’Art de France 
• Sandrine RAMONA, Ceramic Artist and Board Member of d’Ateliers d’Art de France 
• Nathalie BONDIL, Director of the Museum and Exhibitions Department at the Institut du Monde Arabe 
• Marine DOMINICZAK, Contemporary Jewelry Designer and Winner of the Prix de la Jeune Création Métiers d'Art in 2016
• Sébastien MASCHINO, Executive Vice President and Associate Editor-in-Chief of ARCHISTORM

The 2023 Winners: 4 talented designers

Ludivine Loursel, Cane Glassblower and Bronze Artist

As a fine craft artist, Ludivine Loursel creates pieces that emerge from her creative universe, somewhere between lighting, sculpture, and objets d’art. Her designs stem from the combination of two materials forged in the world of fire: metal and glass.
It was at Ecole Boulle, through a diploma in Applied Metal Design, that her creations dealing with inflamed elements, playing with wavelike forms, and a fascination with fire, appeared within her projects.

It was then alongside Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert that Ludivine learned and perfected her cane and freehand glassblowing technique. For several years, she acted as the head of the metal workshop, while also being a glassblower.
Today, it’s within her own creative workshop in Normandy that Ludivine envisions and designs her projects.
You’ll find Ludivine Loursel in the CRAFT sector at Maison&Objet from September 7- 11, 2023

Atelier FONT&ROMANI, Charlotte Font and Charlotte Romani, Tapestry Artists

After four years of training at the Mobilier National and an experience lasting several months within the workshops of the Manufacture de la Savonnerie, Charlotte Font and Charlotte Romani founded their fine textile craft workshop in September 2022 in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

As Lissières (Tapestry Artists), they create hybrid textile objects using Savonnerie techniques. They have made this technique, traditionally used to make monumental floor rugs, into a medium for exploration. Rugs, wall panels, or textile sculptures (when they’re displayed in an installation format)…these pieces are the result of primary research in monochrome techniques.
You’ll find Charlotte Font and Charlotte Romani at the International Cultural Heritage Fair from November 2-5, 2023

Tiphaine Germaneau, Glassmaker

Tiphaine Germaneau creates flat glass forms. Her main goal is to bring meaning to this material: it fluctuates and is malleable and changeable when you work with it, and it’s not necessarily cold or static.
She seeks graphical expressions that push the limits of perception. For her, it’s crucial to create pieces that awaken the senses, push the boundaries of the imagination, or offer a moment’s respite from reality. The interaction between an artwork and its viewer is necessary.

Through her work, she offers a contemporary approach to Murrines: after making them, she assembles and fuses them, allowing the glass to move as it so desires.
Tiphaine Germaneau exhibited her creations at Révélations 2023, from June 7- 11, 2023