MAISON & OBJET RISING TALENT AWARD
TECH EDEN
AWARD TALENT KNOW-HOW
Aurélie Hoegy appointed by Li Edelkoort
Paris, 2024
January 18 – 22, 2024
The choreography of lianas
Born in 1989, Aurélie Hoegy obtained a diploma in Object Design from the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design (ESAD) in Reims, France, and then a Master in Contextual Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. She then established her workshop in Paris, designing furniture flirting with the thin line between art and design. After cotton or latex, Aurélie Hoegy works with rattan, with which she sculpts furniture, true functional works of art, with movement as a common thread, in osmosis between the object, the body and its environment. She learned the technique from contact with Indonesian artisans, with whom she spent an immersion stay. Li Edelkoort, who appointed her Rising Talent, praises her ability to promote a responsible, circular future, ethical practice and organic aesthetics. Already awarded with many prizes, significant museums have already acquired her pieces worldwide. In 2016, she stood out with the project ‘The Dancers’, which combined performance with dancers at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris with chairs where the fibres also danced in symbiosis. She continues with the ‘Wild Fibres’ project, which explores fibre in movement. Each piece is hand-sculpted in her workshop. “Rattan work can be mechanised with difficulty. It is a living design. Handwork and unexpectedness give the creative experience a peculiar vibration.”
In 2024, Maison&Objet celebrates its thirtieth anniversary! It’s time to look forward to the future. The Rising Talent Awards are thus adopting a new format. Instead of distinguishing emerging talents from a single country, the selection honours young designers/researchers for the relevance of their work in the face of digitalisation, which is shaking up our lives and uses. “Two words seemed obvious to us: High technology and Know-how,” comments Dereen O’Sullivan, the Rising Talent Awards Manager for Maison&Objet. The recent emergence of new processes, such as Artificial Intelligence or 3D printing, offers designers an unprecedented field of adventure. This fertile fusion between know-how and digital innovation is at the heart of the general theme of Maison&Objet 2024: “Tech Eden.”
A Jury of art, science and transmission experts
The jury’s composition and diversity illustrate a striking design trend: porosity with different universes. An exhibition curator, Jean de Loisy, comes from the art world. He is the Jury’s President of the Liliane Bettencourt Prize (“Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l’Intelligence de la Main”) in 2021, former Director of the Paris School of Fine Arts and Director of the Palais de Tokyo. Li Edelkoort is a leading figure in fashion and design. Stéphane Galerneau, President of Ateliers d’Art de France, appointed this year’s “Rising Talent Craft” laureates. Because the Rising Talent Awards are also a platform for transmission, interior designer Lionel Jadot, who welcomes young artisans in his Zaventem Ateliers in Belgium, and Design Academy Eindhoven’s Director Joseph Grima are both part of the jury. Two designers intimately linked to Maison&Objet, Athime de Crecy, last year’s Rising Talent Award Winner and Ramy Fischler, “Designer of the Year” 2020, have also nominated their protégés. “Technologies are giving rise to a new generation of artisans who hybridise techniques and materials and thus advance the designers that we are,” concludes the latter. “The future belongs to them.”
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January 18 – 22, 2024
The choreography of lianas
Born in 1989, Aurélie Hoegy obtained a diploma in Object Design from the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design (ESAD) in Reims, France, and then a Master in Contextual Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. She then established her workshop in Paris, designing furniture flirting with the thin line between art and design. After cotton or latex, Aurélie Hoegy works with rattan, with which she sculpts furniture, true functional works of art, with movement as a common thread, in osmosis between the object, the body and its environment. She learned the technique from contact with Indonesian artisans, with whom she spent an immersion stay. Li Edelkoort, who appointed her Rising Talent, praises her ability to promote a responsible, circular future, ethical practice and organic aesthetics. Already awarded with many prizes, significant museums have already acquired her pieces worldwide. In 2016, she stood out with the project ‘The Dancers’, which combined performance with dancers at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris with chairs where the fibres also danced in symbiosis. She continues with the ‘Wild Fibres’ project, which explores fibre in movement. Each piece is hand-sculpted in her workshop. “Rattan work can be mechanised with difficulty. It is a living design. Handwork and unexpectedness give the creative experience a peculiar vibration.”
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In 2024, Maison&Objet celebrates its thirtieth anniversary! It’s time to look forward to the future. The Rising Talent Awards are thus adopting a new format. Instead of distinguishing emerging talents from a single country, the selection honours young designers/researchers for the relevance of their work in the face of digitalisation, which is shaking up our lives and uses. “Two words seemed obvious to us: High technology and Know-how,” comments Dereen O’Sullivan, the Rising Talent Awards Manager for Maison&Objet. The recent emergence of new processes, such as Artificial Intelligence or 3D printing, offers designers an unprecedented field of adventure. This fertile fusion between know-how and digital innovation is at the heart of the general theme of Maison&Objet 2024: “Tech Eden.”
A Jury of art, science and transmission experts
The jury’s composition and diversity illustrate a striking design trend: porosity with different universes. An exhibition curator, Jean de Loisy, comes from the art world. He is the Jury’s President of the Liliane Bettencourt Prize (“Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l’Intelligence de la Main”) in 2021, former Director of the Paris School of Fine Arts and Director of the Palais de Tokyo. Li Edelkoort is a leading figure in fashion and design. Stéphane Galerneau, President of Ateliers d’Art de France, appointed this year’s “Rising Talent Craft” laureates. Because the Rising Talent Awards are also a platform for transmission, interior designer Lionel Jadot, who welcomes young artisans in his Zaventem Ateliers in Belgium, and Design Academy Eindhoven’s Director Joseph Grima are both part of the jury. Two designers intimately linked to Maison&Objet, Athime de Crecy, last year’s Rising Talent Award Winner and Ramy Fischler, “Designer of the Year” 2020, have also nominated their protégés. “Technologies are giving rise to a new generation of artisans who hybridise techniques and materials and thus advance the designers that we are,” concludes the latter. “The future belongs to them.”