Cup handles perforated like doughnuts, teapots rolled up like croissants, kettledrums that look like chocolate nuns and sprawling vases inspired by the sea… Pia Chevalier asserts her style and meditates on the great houses as well as the new editors by playing with everyday shapes: Cartier, Made In Design, French Cliché…
To achieve this, the designer trained in Design and Crafts, and in decoration and surface treatments at the Ecole Boulle. Today, from her studio at the Orfèvrerie, Pia explores the field of possibilities through materials. Brass, stoneware or steel, her experimental research and her taste for contradiction lead her to move from malleable to more rigid textures. Just like the colours that she likes to use for a touch of fantasy or to avoid for a raw finish. Here is a demonstration.
What project are you most busy with at the moment?
« I’ve had a big wave of projects in the last few months. For Cartier I developed a series of candleholders around the theme of Valentine’s Day. I also worked with Longchamp developing my Donuts series of ceramics around their Lumière and Héritage green colours. And at the moment I am working again on the Donuts series for Made In Design. «
A colour range that follows you?
« I’m quite contradictory about it. I like colours, multicolours, and at the same time I also like raw material without any additions like sandstone alone for example. »
3 items to hunt?
An address to discover?
« I would love to visit Antti Lovag’s Bubble Palace in the south of France. »
« Marion Mailaender who did the Tuba Club in Marseille. She does simple things with strong concepts. »
Form, function or fantasy?
« I would say fantasy. Function is essential, but fantasy overcomes it. »
