Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
In 2008, the architect Dominique Perrault described himself in eleven words. School. Rupture. Defiance. Void. Wall. Earth. Land art. Site. Place. Happiness. Mesh. A flexible material endowed with structure, whose quality is to be and not to be. A rigorous and poetic material, immaterial and constructed, which the architect has seized upon to create protective or welcoming geographies, manage public or private spaces, and shape natural and artificial light.
It is this mesh that Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault captured, manipulated, shaped, introduced, and sometimes grafted onto the very interiors of the lighting fixtures to create the thousands of original and powerful devices that illuminate the National Library of France day and night. The protagonist of a moral tale and a social contract, each chapter and clause of which he boldly, intelligently, and pragmatically writes, Dominique Perrault is the architect of form, meaning, dynamics, knowledge, energy—in short, of context. His creations explore all its facets.
Fundamentally down-to-earth with just the right amount of subtle utopian irony, a phenomenalist of matter and void, Dominique Perrault is an architectural figure whose achievements mark the European territory (notably the Berlin Velodrome and Olympic swimming pool, the extension of the Luxembourg Court of Justice, the development of Piazza Garibaldi in Naples, the DC Towers in Vienna, the Teaching Bridge of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) and the Asian space (the Ewha University campus in Seoul and the Fukoku Tower in Osaka).
A man deliberately kept out of the media spotlight, whose conceptual hedonism is coupled with enthusiasm and a touch of mischief. Dominique Perrault's signature is a rarity. The one he and Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost have created for the IN THE TUBE, IN THE TUBE 360°, and IN THE SUN collections is therefore a significant event. Even more than that, it's a thoughtful highlighting, a filtered approach to the source, a domestication of raw industrial power that is both radical and refined, disarmed and rendered comfortable, gentle, and sophisticated. "This transfer is nothing new. Everyday domestic life is constantly being permeated by industry, which is no longer seen as a difficult, isolated, noisy world. Today, it's natural to use these components, which are every bit as good as design."
Archives Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
Archives Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
Archives Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
Archives Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
GAËLLE LAURIOT-PRÉVOST
- 1962 - Born in Metz, France
- 1988 - Graduated from the Camondo school, Paris
- 1989 - Beginning of the collaboration with Dominique Perrault
DOMINIQUE PERRAULT
- 1953 - Born in Clermont-Ferrand, France
- 1973 - Entered architecture school, attended Martin van Treck's studio
- 1978 - Architect DPLG, National School of Fine Arts of Paris
- 1981 - Creation of the DPA agency in Paris
Archives Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
Archives Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
Archives Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
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In The Sun Pendant 190- Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
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In The Sun Pendant 270- Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
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In The Sun Pendant Composition 190- Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
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In The Sun Pendant Composition 270
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In The Sun Table 130- Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
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In The Sun Table 220- Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault
