30 Years of Maison&Objet: visions of the Future
Saturday 20 January —
14:00
- 14:45
The Talks — Hall 7
Description
Participants
Jean de LoisyArt historian & independant curator
Joseph GrimaCreative director - Design Academy Eindhoven
Audrey LargeDesigner
Jenna KaësDesigner
Roddy ClarkeJournalist
Jean de Loisy
Art historian & independant curator
Jean de Loisy is an art historian and independent curator. He was, among others, Inspector of Creation at the French Ministry of Culture, Curator at the Fondation Cartier and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He directed and co-directed various art venues in France, including the Palais de Tokyo from 2011 to 2017 and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2018 to 2022. From 2011 to 2022, he was producer at France Culture of Les Regardeurs and then L'Art est la matière.
Joseph Grima
Creative director - Design Academy Eindhoven
Joseph Grima is an architect, writer and curator based in Milan, Italy. He is founding partner at Space Caviar, a practice operating at the intersection of architecture, design and research. The studio produces built work, publications, exhibitions, films and research that has been presented widely in Europe, the US and Asia. In 2017, Grima cofounded Alcova, an design platform presented annually during Milan Design Week. In 2023 Alcova expanded to Miami. Since 2017, Grima has served as Creative Director at Design Academy Eindhoven. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Domus magazine and director of the Museum of Italian Design at Triennale Milano.
Audrey Large
Designer
Audrey Large was born in Bordeaux, France in 1994. She earned a Master’s in social design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands in 2017, after studying at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Reims, France (ESAD). In 2020, she received the Dutch Design Award for young talent. Since 2019, she has shown her work at the prestigious Galerie Nilufar in Milan. Part-art and part-design, Audrey Large’s work experiments with a fusion between images in movement and static objects. To an even greater extent, the creations that she makes herself in her workshop in Rotterdam are somewhere between material and immaterial, as though they had just emerged from a digitalized world.
Jenna Kaës
Designer
Born in 1987, French artist Jenna Kaës is a graduate of the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg in 2012, and then of the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2016. In 2018 and 2019, she was also a resident at the Ateliers de Paris, before turning to making her own pieces. She shows her work regularly at the Southway Studio Gallery in Marseille, responds to public calls for tender, and is one of a group of talents in collectible design that could be considered art, made by French Cliché. Jenna Kaës seeks to be part of the venerable tradition of the Decorative Arts, with a penchant for the funerary arts, a theme that remains taboo and relatively unexplored even today. Beyond this, Jenna Kaës studies the spiritual aspect of objects. She has just completed the columbarium for the historic La Chartreuse cemetery in Bordeaux.
Roddy Clarke
Journalist
A graduate of Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Roddy Clarke is a design writer looking at the social and environmental impacts of design. With a background in restoration, Roddy covers topics such as circularity, responsible design, and the presence of traditional craft in a contemporary society. Contributing to titles such as The Financial Times and Forbes, Roddy also hosts and speaks across various industry events while also consulting with brands to help them navigate their way to a greener future through transparent and honest communication. Roddy also works as an interior stylist for a variety of brand-related projects.