#pierrecharpin

[damecuratedgoods]

#giorgiomastinugallery #giorgiomastinu #artseeker #pierrecharpin #drawings #virtualexperience in #venezia👑 (στην τοποθεσία Sestière Di San Marco, Veneto, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT6YneRoWJK/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lady----m]

Atelier Pierre Charpin.

[danielenokssonstudio]

RG 👉 @haydesign Mixing colors and materials creates sweet outdoor spots. Seen here with the Bouroullec brother’s Élémentaire Chair, Daniel Enoksson’s Terrazzo Table and Pierre Charpin’s PC Portable Lamp – all in durable materials suited to outdoor use. @ronanerwanbouroullec @daniel.enoksson.studio @atelierpierrecharpin - - - #HAY #HAYdesign #bouroullecbrothers #danishdesign #desigprocess #pierrecharpin #hermanmiller #designwithinreach #dwr #terrazzotables #terrazzotable #terrazzo #surface #material #hayterrazzotable #danielenokssonstudio #danielenoksson #enokssonstudio #cafetable #hayoutdoor #outdoorfurniture #outdoorfurniture #interiorlovers #design #workspacedesign #wherepeoplework #workplace #homedecor #living #interiordesign #architecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CSzTa9fj2cO/?utm_medium=tumblr

[heretoinspire]

Via @larrys_list #DelphineKrakoff #FrankStella #CarolBove #PierreCharpin #DaleChihuly #HollyHunt #homesofNewYork #bluechipart #LarrysList #CollectorCrib Via @elledecor and @m.a.r.c.c.o.s.t.a Photography by @minh_ngoc https://www.instagram.com/p/CSJ9jOnqVpF/?utm_medium=tumblr

[laurentpisoni]

#bathroom #light #morning #morningsun #minimal #minimalist #minimalism #minimalzine #architecture #black #white #grey #shadow #interior #interiordesign #details #paris #laurentpisoni #pierrecharpin #kreo #mrzykmoriceau #airdeparisgallery @laurentpisoni @galeriekreo @atelierpierrecharpin @airdeparis (à Rue des Petits-Champs) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt3q-PzHz44/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rx2wcw8b4uxo

[tynatunis]

Loved and Shared @claudemissir.interiors #interior#ClaudeMissir#ThomasSaraceno#ElaineSturtevant#PierreCharpin #art#ceramics (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BttpB81BjJA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rup61sjq8c9c

[vaa-b]

Pierre Charpin é il designer dell'anno. Lo annuncia Maison & Objet (20-24 Gen ‘17). Il lavoro di Charpin si divide tra arte, design e scenografia. Il suo stile? Semplicità formale, addolcita da linee curve e scelte cromatiche distintive.

Nel padiglione 7, Charpin ha allestito il suo spazio presentando anche la lampada da tavolo PC Lamp, frutto dell’ultima collaborazione con Sebatian Wrong.

Nato nel 1962 nei sobborghi di Parigi, Charpin è figlio di uno scultore e di un'artigiana della tessitura di arazzi. Proprio questo legame con le arti plastiche, con la semplicità, ha plasmato le forme essenziali, quasi archetipiche, del suo design.

Dopo il diploma alla Scuola di Belle Arti di Bourges negli Anni 90 ha approfondito il suo lavoro in Italia nell'ambiente vicino al gruppo Memphis, a Milano.

È proprio in questi anni che a Charpin arrivano le prime commissioni da parte di marchi di fama internazionale come Zanotta, Ligne Roset, Venini, Alessi.

I prossimi progetti di Charpin? Una collezione tableware per il marchio giapponese 2016/ Arita e una serie di ceramiche per l’italiana Piemme.

pierrecharpin.com. maison-objet.com

[archipanic]

"Slice" upholstered armchair by French designer Pierre Charpin can be extended with a row of coloured stools. #mom2017 #mo2017 #maisonobjet #maisonobjet2017 #pierrecharpin #cinna @cinna_france #design #frenchdesign #designer #frenchdesigner #french #france #seating #chair #armchair #loungechair #furniture #furnituredesign

[yannaudic-blog]

Portrait of #pierrecharpin in his studio featured today in the current weekend issue of @lemondefr @m_magazine 📸📸 #filmphotography #portrait #designer (at Paris, France)

[cavaobject]

PIERRE CHARPIN

55-year-old Pierre Charpin is a French furniture and object designer, currently working in Ivry-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris. Charpin has exhibited his creations all over the world, including Paris, Switzerland, London, Milan and Kyoto, and has collaborated with a variety of high end manufacturers including Hermes, Alessi and The Wrong Shop. This year he was named Maison&Objet’s Designer of the Year, with the French design fair and online platform describing his style, “Pierre Charpin keeps his eye for plastic arts and stamps his unique style on every piece he designs – formal simplicity, softened by curved lines and often highlighted by distinctive chromatic choices” (2017).

Despite his accomplishments, Charpin’s work resonated especially with us because of how he incorporates art into his designs and his unique interpretations of mundane objects. Rather than redesigning objects utilising an element of a mundane object in his work, Charpin focuses on adapting and reinventing common objects, such as lamps and couches, to fit into our current society and technological landscape. At first glance, Charpin’s ‘PC Task Lamp’ (2016) is just a mundane, but aesthetically pleasing desk lamp; however, the lamp addresses energy consumption and accessibility, making it more useful for our present society. The lamp is controlled by touch, able to be switch on and dimmed without knobs and buttons. ‘PC Lamp’ also turns itself off after six hours, working to combat our overwhelming global energy consumption by noting soothing as simple but critical as turning of the lights. It can be seen from this that there are multiple layers behind Charpin’s approach to designing mundane objects.

While creating a series of paintings of the Japanese landscape in residency at Kyoto’s Villa Kujoyama, Charpin observed the object’s personalities, “Some seemed sympathetic, or more aggressive, or thoughtful, or questioning, some joyful or rather sad. They were all features of their singularity, so remarkably similar to ourselves” (The Wrong Shop, 2016). I really like this approach of personifying the object as it instills the object with a personality and sense of life without literally giving them human features. He also noted the importance of scale and aesthetic in his creative process, stating, “I prefer to reinvent the existing by renewing the proportions or the agreements. The object interests me only if it has a presence... It matters to me that it lives in space” (Côté Maison 2017). An example of this notion of a mundane object having personality is demonstrated in Charpin’s ‘Slice’ chair (1998, reproduced 2016), which offers numerous possibilities on how to live more vibrantly, “If there is no doubt at all that Slice is a seat, it is also an object, the intention of which is to invite us to live with color. An invitation to bask in it, perhaps even to lose oneself in it” (Ligne Roset 2017).

Charpin stated that his practice is “largely based on experimental projects” (Charpin 2017), with Maison&Objet describing him as an “explorer at heart” (2017). Another aspect that Charpin noted in his approach to object design is that he has a keen interest in the manufacturing process and how this impacted on how the objects were designed (Maison&Objet 2017).

Something I find interesting about Charpin’s style is that he does not make a distinction between his work for industry and his work for galleries (Côté Maison 2017). In my head, this is a fundamental difference; naturally, commissioned designs have an entirely different feel to those created for personal use. However, Charpin has led me to question why I believe this, because although often working to a brief, naturally designers apply their style to whatever they are creating, which is why I am unsure why I held this as the case.

Therefore, Charpin’s work approaches mundane objects from a variety of angles and motives: to integrate the object into the current technoscape, to provide the object with personality and to use experimental, innovative techniques to achieve this.

Charpin, P 2017, Biography, viewed 1 October 2017, <https://www.pierrecharpin.com/>.

Charpin, P 2016, Pierre Charpin on Monkey Drawings, The Wrong Shop, 5 April, viewed 2 October, <https://www.thewrongshop.co.uk/blog/interviews-and-writing/pierre-charpin-monkey-drawings/>.

Hay 2016, PC, viewed 2 October 2017, <http://hay.dk/globalassets/media/brandsite/contract/ product-sheets/pdfer/hay-pc-product-fact-sheet.pdf>.

Ligne Roset 2017, SLICE: Pierre Charpin, viewed 3 October 2017, <https://www.ligne-roset.com/us/modele/living/armchairs/slice/2353>.

Maison&Objet 2017, Pierre Charpin: M&O PARIS designer of the year, January 2017, online video, viewed 3 October 2017, <http://www.maison-objet.com/en/paris/program/awards/designers-of-the-year/pierre-charpin>.

Morby, A 2016, ‘Pierre Charpin named Maison&Objet Designer of the Year’, Dezeen, 7 December, viewed 2 October 2017, <https://www.dezeen.com/2016/12/07/pierre-charpin-named-maison-objet-designer-year-news/>.

Wolff, S 2017, Rencontre avec Pierre Charpin, "créateur de l'année" au style éclectique, Côté Maison, 13 March, viewed 3 October 2017, <http://www.cotemaison.fr/pierre-charpin-maison-et-objet-interview-du-createur-de-l-annee_28880.html>.

[mrwaffleslovesdesign-blog]

Mr. Waffles is hoping to hit it big as a model on the Paris runways, but for now, he's practicing his poses on Pierre Charpin's Slice Sofa for Cinna/Ligne Roset. Congrats to Mr. Charpin on being named #DesigneroftheYear at #MaisonetObjet! @cinna_france @ligneroset #pierrecharpin #MO17 #mrwafflesontheroad (at Salon Maison Et Objet)

[formlab]

Pierre Charpin

[adondedesign]

Vases par Pierre Charpin – exposition bauhaus au musée des arts déco à Paris #pierrecharpin #glassdesign (à Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris)

[laura-evers-johns]

Marbles and Clowns - and bears? #pierrecharpin (at Bischoff/Weiss)

[yannaudic-blog]

Publication in the current weekend issue of French Newspaper @lemondefr @m_magazine 📸🎊📸 photo of french designer #pierrecharpin studio . . . . #print #news #magazine #mlemagazinedumonde #filmphotography #contax645 #portra400 #portrait #designer (at Paris, France)