Quentin Garel

Quentin Garel is a contemporary sculptor born in Paris in 1975 who works in stone, wood and bronze. 

'Quentin Garel’s work is inspired by anatomy, skeletons and archaeological remains to create sculptures with hybrid forms. If he plays with reality and the relationship of scale to divert the forms and invent a population from a parallel paleontological world, at first glance his sculptures are an illusion, they become the remains of a real animal, in a subtle assembly of wood and bronze that he works in such a way that we can not differentiate them with the naked eye. Garel is an archaeologist of the present, who reinterprets the animal figure through a multitude of morphological variations.'

It all started 20 years ago, when his work took an ironic look at hunting trophies: he denounced a proud practice of man, a domination over the animal seen only as an object of consumption. 

Benoît Vauthier and Manu Lerendu

 French sculptors Benoît Vauthier and Manu Lerendu are inspired by mountains and mountain ranges recreating their ripples peaks and valleys in reliefs, tables and your dinner plate. Benoît and Manu met at  the Institut Québécois d'ébénisterie in Canada, they now share thier studio in Le Petite Raon (Vosges). 

Thierry Martenon I

Thierry Martenon makes incredible sculptures and wall pieces from wood exploring grain and texture, creating pieces that speak of landscape, skin and fossil.

David Tisserand

Minions designed by French product designer David Tisserand.

Thibaut Malet

Muzo is a collection of interactive decorative objects, a rhino, giraffe and elephant by French designer Thibaut Malet inspired by Origami. These three animals have magnetic wooden components that allow them to be mixed and re-positioned.

Mark Bourlier I

Mark Bourlier is a French artist who started using driftwood to compose his images in 1995, using scraps of wood to create a commentary on humanity and the human condition.

Sébastien Besse

What caught my eye about this project by French designer Sébastien Besse, was those lovely soft pebbles of wood on the table top. this is a lovely soft organic design.

Gerpied

Gerpied is a young Fench furniture maker and carpenter now living in Estonia. These three stools were hand made using local ash and feature beautiful joints.

Matthieu Marcola

Matthieu Marcola is a French artist and illustrator who sometimes takes two dimensional work into three dimensions creating sculptures and lamps from recycled wood. Mattieu's work is wonderfully inventive, creative and fun. 

Dieder Laforest

Crafts are dying, secretly and silently, disappearing and yet if they can be clutched and revived before this there is great good that can be achieved and great lives lived by crafts people saving and developing culture and heritage.
Dieder Laforest’s passion for hat block making and faith in the hat making industry (despite its demise in France) lead him to open the workshop at Lyon’s Hat Museum.Here Dieder Laforest sculpts wood into different shapes to create hat blocks according to each milliner’s specific needs.

Pascal Oudet II

Paper lace beauty of wonder Pascal Oudet pushed the possibilities of paper as a medium beyond its normal form to expose a delicate strength and structure.

Pascal Oudet I

Pascal Oudet is a French sculptor and woodworker whose work verges on paper making, due to the way he often works with wood until it becomes like lace or parchment. Here are some examples of his turned bowls and vessels which he sandblasts almost taking the wood to a transparency.

"I find some of my inspiration in the fact that the wear of time produced on natural materials such as wood or stone. This reveals and highlights their deep structure. In my work, I play with wood, with the same goal to bring out the personality. I use especially sandblasting which on pieces of great finesse, allows me to get a real lace wood. We then can read the whole story of the trees that I work with. Most of the time, I have a clear idea of ​​what I want to create, and then I look for the piece of wood that will produce the desired effect. My pieces are born on the turn, but it is only part of creation. The tool must never be a limit, only the imagination." Pascal Oudet