Ateliers d'art de France presents

The BDMMA highlights 9 young creators

The Bureau of Design, Fashion, and Craft Professions of the City of Paris (BDMMA) supports professionals in these sectors in developing their activities. Each year, it assists more than 500 creators through an incubator, training programs, a network of experts, a co-working space, and support in finding workspaces. Once again this year, the BDMMA is highlighting young creators by presenting, at Révélations, nine material artists and their exceptional creations. An invitation to discover unique pieces, bold craftsmanship, and the excellence of artistic professions at the Grand Palais.

Chloé Valorso – Bronze sculptor

Her practice shifts between jewelry and sculpture. She explores the fundamental meaning of jewelry as a medium for capturing the inner energies of our body, soul, and mind, in resonance with external forces. Techniques are fluid, and her sculptures interact with the body through their symbolism and the properties of the materials used. Each piece of jewelry is hand-sculpted from recycled natural materials. These amulets are holistic, energetic, and contemporary jewels, inspired by nature and mythology while remaining deeply rooted in our modern reality.

Studio Quiproquo – Designers

Quiproquo is a studio founded in 2021 by Marie Vernier-Lopin and Bastien Phung, designers, ceramists, and cabinetmakers. The duo explores craftsmanship to understand the creative possibilities that workshops offer as a medium of expression. They invite us to reconsider our needs—and, by extension, the choices that shape our surroundings. Their work features narrative objects that challenge perceptions, both through their form and their function.

Miles Le Gras – Designer

Miles Le Gras specializes in object design, interior architecture, and scenography. He graduated from ENSAAMA (2016) and the Design Academy Eindhoven (2020). After establishing his studio in the Netherlands, he returned to Paris in 2022, where he is now based at the BDMMA workshops. His creations highlight the richness of materials and their craftsmanship. By reinterpreting traditional techniques and reshaping forms from the collective imagination, he gives his objects a unique and dynamic identity. His experiences and projects have led him to collaborate multiple times with Compagnons du Devoir, allowing him to refine his work with zinc and stone carving.

Mérigot Sanzay – Textile creator

Behind Mérigot Sanzay is Diane Collongues, a master artisan with a deep passion for textiles. A graduate in textile design from ENSAAMA, she trained in high-warp tapestry at the Manufacture des Gobelins. In 2021, she founded her own studio, bringing together the craftsmanship she cherishes—tapestry, weaving, and knitting. Using textiles as a medium for her sensitivity, she explores various formats to express what remains hidden or unspoken. Her creations, which can be custom-made, are designed for interior designers, art galleries, and collectors. In 2024, thanks to the Institut Français, she showcased her work at the first edition of Révélations China in Beijing.

Julia Bartsch – Jeweler

Behind each carefully crafted piece by Julia lies a deep commitment to artisanal values and sustainable practices. Working exclusively with recycled precious metals such as silver and gold, she designs and hand-sculpts each piece in her Parisian studio, producing limited editions and small series. Her hands-on approach to the crafting process allows the subtle nuances and inherent qualities of the materials to shape the final character of each piece, resulting in truly unique creations.

Lucille Boitelle – Ornamental painter

In her studio, Lucille designs materials, patterns, and panoramic décors that are both strikingly modern and rich in symbolism. Since founding her studio in 2017, she has developed numerous bespoke projects alongside her collections.

Her signature drawings, adapted into wallpapers, embroideries, and monumental décors, are featured by prestigious publishers such as Pierre Frey, Nobilis, Casamance, and Larsen. Believing that collaboration, exchange, and shared knowledge enrich decorative arts, Lucille intentionally cultivates a collective and integrated approach to her craft.

Audrey B. Studio -  Designer

Founded in 2022, Audrey B Studio is a research-driven studio dedicated to flexible materials. With a background in luxury leather goods, the studio develops innovative materials and 3D systems for fashion, design, and architecture. Conceived as an open-ended exploration space, the studio pushes boundaries by reinterpreting materials and traditional craftsmanship beyond their usual applications. Through folding, embroidery, braiding, and cutting, it creates unique visual and tactile effects, tailored to reflect the DNA of each client.

Antonin Mongin – Textile creator

Antonin Mongin is a doctor in design and textile artisan-designer based in Paris. His work aims to revive "The Art of Working with Hair," a craft that has been dormant since the early 20th century, transforming cut hair (donated by individuals) from waste into a precious raw material with significant identity, symbolic, and memorial value. This process initiates and supports projects for the creation of custom-made textile materials and individualized objects, made to order for private clients. In his studio, he also works with other unique fibers such as synthetic hair, horsehair, sisal, raffia, and French plant fibers, crafting plant-based faux furs and artisanal textiles for luxury houses.

Font&Romani – Textile creators

The FONT&ROMANI studio creates textile objects using the artisanal technique of Savonnerie. It is the only private studio to practice this rare craft, which has its origins in a Parisian tradition established in the early 17th century in the galleries of the Palais du Louvre. The duo weaves exceptional pieces by hand, intended for the fields of decoration, fashion, and design. The studio’s collections explore monochromatic universes inspired by ancient myths and stories. Using an original technique, the patterns emerge from the depth of the wool velvet, sculpted like bas-reliefs.

Winners of the Prix de la Jeune Création Métiers d’Art from Ateliers d’Art de France in 2023, they exhibited at the International Cultural Heritage Fair.

Photos credits : ©Mélanie Ossaka ; ©Studio Quiproquo ; ©DR ; ©Diane Collongues ; ©Lisa Marleen Mueller ; ©Nobilis ; ©Felix Marye ; ©Paul Reyrolle ; ©Julien Weber ; ©Marie Prechac
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