Alexandre Labruyère & the 2024 creative collection
The visual creations
Of Alexandre’s trips
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Hi design lovers!
Travel offers a non-stop runway of ideas for artists. The textures, colours, and cultural nuances encountered become the raw materials for those with creative minds.
Alexandre Labruyère found this to be true, and each destination he visited left an indelible mark on his artistic canvas.
Alexandre Labruyére is a designer of contemporary furniture and decorative objects. A jack of all trades, he is passionate about his job as a product designer and has used each of his professional experiences to discover new facets of his work.
As a keen cyclist, he has travelled to many places whose natural landscapes have left their mark on him, and now serve as inspiration for his creations.
After several years in a large industrial sports company, he trained in 2019 at the GRETA of École Boulle in Paris, to become a cabinetmaker. This training allows him today to approach many materials with techniques related to this art, giving life to his ideas and concepts.
It is within the COFABRIK, a shared creative workshop in Lille, that Alexandre chose to settle. This space hosts many creators: harpsichord makers, stained glass artists, ceramists, visual artists, guitar makers etc.
His work revolves around three fundamental axes: tension, lightness and simplicity. These three notions guide the research, experimentation, creation and manufacturing of all the products in Alexandre’s catalogue.
These were showcased in the first object of his collection: Bettoia. Bettoia could be the name of a flower, but it is the name of the designer’s great-grandmother, to whom he wanted to pay tribute for the first object he created.
A wooden vase with soft and elegant lines, a soothing object, whose main function is to bring nature inside our living spaces. This function responds to the growing need to reconnect with our natural environments, represented here by dried flowers.
The various dimensions of Bettoia allow everyone to personalise their “interior meadow”, as the designer likes to call it. The different sizes adapt to all the rooms of the house (bedroom, office, living room, etc.), and allow to emphasise the highest stems.
The furniture and objects are like elements taken out of their natural environment: the reeds of the marshes of the South, and the fields of wild grass of the North.
All these objects create an imaginary and poetic landscape, populated with references to nature often wild but familiar to most of us.
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