Demisch Danant presents
Made in Situ by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
Design at Large | Design Miami/ Paris
Hotel de Maisons 51 Rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris
October 17-22, 2023

The gallery will take part in the fair's 'Design at Large' program with a presentation by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance's Lisbon-based studio, Made in Situ. Entrusted with imagining the fair’s Media Room, the contemporary French designer will present a selection from his Azulejos and Burnt Corkcollections. This showcase will echo his Made in Situ exhibition taking place that week at his own showroom in the Bastille neighborhood.

About Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance

A multidisciplinary French designer, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance is known internationally for his sensitive attention to materials and details, as well as for the refinement of his organic forms. From his initial training as a sculptor, he has kept this innate aptitude for dialogue between space and object. The duality between artistic vision and meticulous rigour, nature and the city, functionality and emotion flows seamlessly through his projects, whether in interior architecture (the Sketch à in London, the Air France lounges, the chalet at La Transhumance) or in the design of furniture or objects (published by Ceccotti, Bernhardt Design, Ligne Roset, La Chance, Hermès, Saint-Louis, Revol), but also tailor-made for private clients or cultural institutions such as the Villa Medici. His work has always flourished in collaboration and dialogue with craftsmen and craftswomen, and this approach takes on even more cultural and emotional depth today. In order to reconnect with nature and weave a sensitive link between man and his environment, he chose to move to Lisbon in 2017. From this immersion was born the Made In Situ project. Through its various chapters and encounters - to date the black ceramics of Tondela Barro Negro, the cork from the Algarve Burnt Cork, the Azulejos of Viuva Lamego, the bronze of Peniche and the beeswax candles of Fatima, Bronze & Beeswax - Made In Situ explores, through the prism of the designer's eyes, a variety of territories, geological, artisanal, economic and cultural. A travel diary that can only be extended, in France or elsewhere.