Just steps from the Tuileries Garden, the showroom unfolds a completely different language of refinement. The "CURATED BY" project, conceived by Klante in collaboration with curator Raphaël Giannesini, offers a unique exhibition within the very spaces of the press and public relations agency's headquarters.
Through the creations of Studio Josie, Riikka Piippo, Wendy Andreu, Lena Marie Emrich, Maxime Testu and L/UNIFORM x Wako, an entire aesthetic of instinct, matter and memory is emerging.
Studio Josie: The Spontaneous Language of Flowers
Studio Josie is the project of an independent floral designer based in Paris. Born in the heart of the Alps, she developed a deep connection with nature at a very young age. Trained in applied arts, she is self-taught in her practice.
Her approach lies in a tension between the raw and the poetic. Each installation expresses a chaotic equilibrium where gesture, profusion, and instinct assert themselves as languages in their own right. The floral compositions she designs for this exhibition resonate directly with the space, activating and transforming it through their presence.
Josie regularly collaborates with fashion houses, cultural venues and private events, for which she imagines bespoke, unique and inhabited floral works.
Riikka Piippo: earthy harmony
Riikka Piippo is a designer who works with several media, including ceramics, textiles, and accessories. Within the "CURATED BY" exhibition, her ceramic works occupy a central place.
She develops an aesthetic based on enduring beauty, creating objects that enrich daily life and withstand the test of time. Her work is part of a research process exploring the textures, nuances, and properties of clay.
Her experiments with glazes reveal a unique expression, with earthy tones, both modern and timeless. Each piece presented asserts itself through its balance between material, form, and function.
Lena Marie Emrich: between nature and architecture
A singular sculptor on the contemporary scene, Lena Marie Emrich distinguishes herself through an approach where each series becomes a field of experimentation. She combines new techniques and varied materials, subtly blending ancestral craftsmanship with the symbols of our time. Her work weaves a subtle dialogue between past and present, archaism and modernity, in a kind of ode to contemplation. Time, discreet, ever-changing, sometimes elusive, permeates her entire oeuvre. Recently, she has turned to digital marquetry, industrially produced and then reworked by hand. Featured in numerous exhibitions across Europe, her works are now part of several prestigious collections.
Wendy Andreu: Matter as Language
Designer Wendy Andreu explores the possibilities of communication through materials. Her practice is based on experimentation. Through testing, she designs surprising functional solutions.
She pays equal attention to context, concept, quality of manufacture, and aesthetics. Each piece thus becomes an attempt at a dialogue between material, space, and person.
Within the framework of "CURATED BY", his works are integrated into a space where the sensory and the structural interact. His approach invites us to consider the object as a vehicle of meaning, as much as of form.
Maxime Testu: Satire and Transformation
In his work, Maxime Testu favors painting on metal and ink drawing. His works offer a critique of his immediate environment through a satirical approach. He draws inspiration from the European avant-garde to question the role of the artist in their studio, their relationship to nature, and self-representation.
Trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Lyon and then at the École Supérieure d'Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva, he has exhibited in several cities, including Paris, Brussels, Geneva, and Dijon. He has also participated in art events such as the Salon de Montrouge and the FRAC in Dunkirk. His work is part of a pictorial continuity where the metal support becomes a surface for narration and irony.
L/UNIFORM x Wako: between artisanal rigor and everyday poetry
As part of “CURATED BY,” the showroom also hosts the new L/UNIFORM x Wako capsule collection, the result of a subtle dialogue between French elegance and Japanese tradition. Conceived by Jeanne Signoles, founder of L/UNIFORM, in collaboration with the prestigious Wako department store in Tokyo, this very limited edition series reinvents the brand's iconic designs in a rare fabric: vintage Japanese denim made from precious offcuts. Three key pieces – the Mini press bag le Small tool bag and Work belt – are combined with the marine canvas, the signature of the leather goods house, in a rigorous and sensual aesthetic.
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