Product design
In search of "essensuel"
An idea, a gesture, a form.
What is more banal than sitting down or opening a door? An everyday gesture, being repeated many times, requires great consideration. An ergonomical shape, whithout stylistic effect, stands out by itself: the work of a designer has to be able to keep in the background.
Comfort is a mixed notion. The shape of a product must be exactly fit for a gesture or an use. But it is not enough. Another comfort is important too: visual comfort. The first meeting with a product goes through the glance. This meeting is decisive. By its shape, a product must speak to us about its use and ask us to use it. It has to be welcoming, warm, almost friendly. To give expression to this double search of essence, for the senses Edouard Vitrant coined a new word: "essensuel".
In the martial arts, the gesture is more important than its result. The search of "essensuel" follows the same way, the way of the nobleness of gesture.
Fireplace finery KAZAN, Atelier SEDAP
Plaster, grey mirror, dichroic bulbs
Wall lamp Fissum verticalis, Megalit
Porcelain
Chair Aliud filum
Wood, steel tube
May a seat be asymmetrical?
Range of seats Delphinus
Wooden frame, polyurethane foam, fabric or leather
Each item may be used isolated or be placed side by side endlessly
Chair Undula
Moulded plywood, steel tube
Both parts may hold to each other without any fastening
Unit chair Aspis inaspicius
Transparent PMMA, polyurethane foam, fabric or leather
To be placed side by side endlessly
Sofa Minimum
Moulded plywood, polyurethane foam, leather
Search of the most simple expression
Programme of seats Ovum
Wooden frame, polyurethane foam, fabric or leather
Coffee table Sigma
Candle-holder BOUGIE WOOGIE, prototype
Aluminium
Door handle SESAME, limited batch production
Aluminium
Sandglass SATURNE, Baccarat
Crystal, steel
Carpet HERMES 1, Tai Ping Carpets
Wool