Alexandre Labruyère
France
Alexandre Labruyère is a craft designer of contemporary furniture.
A jack of all trades, he is passionate about his job as a product designer and has used his professional experiences to discover new facets of his work. He is inspired by his many travels and encounters to imagine, design and manufacture furniture.
Initially trained in industrial design, he has explored many fields of object design (transportation, art direction, luggage, etc.) this has enabled him to expand his taste for materials, and his skills in using them.
After several years in a large industrial sports company, he trained in 2019 at the Ecole Boulle in Paris, to become a cabinetmaker. This training allows him today to approach many materials with techniques related to this art, giving life to his ideas and concepts.
It is within the COFABRIK, a shared creative workshop in Lille, that Alexandre chose to settle. This space hosts many creators: harpsichord maker, stained glass artist, ceramist, visual artists, guitar maker etc., thus nourishing exchanges around contemporary creation.
His work revolves around three fundamental axes: tension, lightness and simplicity. These three notions guide the research, experimentation, creation and manufacturing of all the products in Alexandre's catalogue.
They also give a structure and a common base to each object they imagined and created by him. The search for a taut but fluid line guides the designer's work, which is enhanced by contrasting colours. Simplicity, in its most positive sense, gives the object a form of obviousness. The obviousness of function and use, of the perfect line, and feeling.
For the universe created here is imbued with familiar poetry: we are not faced with objects that confuse or disturb us. They come rather than consolidate our interior world and call upon a memory of timeless forms.
Alexandre Labruyère is a craft designer of contemporary furniture.
A jack of all trades, he is passionate about his job as a product designer and has used his professional experiences to discover new facets of his work. He is inspired by his many travels and encounters to imagine, design and manufacture furniture.
Initially trained in industrial design, he has explored many fields of object design (transportation, art direction, luggage, etc.) this has enabled him to expand his taste for materials, and his skills in using them.
After several years in a large industrial sports company, he trained in 2019 at the Ecole Boulle in Paris, to become a cabinetmaker. This training allows him today to approach many materials with techniques related to this art, giving life to his ideas and concepts.
It is within the COFABRIK, a shared creative workshop in Lille, that Alexandre chose to settle. This space hosts many creators: harpsichord maker, stained glass artist, ceramist, visual artists, guitar maker etc., thus nourishing exchanges around contemporary creation.
His work revolves around three fundamental axes: tension, lightness and simplicity. These three notions guide the research, experimentation, creation and manufacturing of all the products in Alexandre's catalogue.
They also give a structure and a common base to each object they imagined and created by him. The search for a taut but fluid line guides the designer's work, which is enhanced by contrasting colours. Simplicity, in its most positive sense, gives the object a form of obviousness. The obviousness of function and use, of the perfect line, and feeling.
For the universe created here is imbued with familiar poetry: we are not faced with objects that confuse or disturb us. They come rather than consolidate our interior world and call upon a memory of timeless forms.
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