Monograph on French designer François Bauchet, whose work stands on the frontier between functionalism and visual art.
“The relationship to the scale translated in my work through the small displacements gives a certain accent to the objects. That attention is not the result of some mathematics, but represents the will to shift norms and habits. Aside from canons, my relationship to proportions is linked to the human scale. Beyond this scale, which is dependent on architecture and corresponds to spaces in which we can enter, there is the scale that relates to what one can embrace: furniture, objects. Finally, there is the dimension of what one holds in the hand. The more we go towards the small dimension or intimacy, the more we summon up touching things further away from the look”.
F. Bauchet
Jacques Bonnaval is the former director of Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design and founder of the International Design Biennial.
Claire Fayolle is a design journalist and teacher.
French designer François Bauchet (born 1948 in Montluçon, France, lives and works in Paris), who studied sculpture and ceramics, confronts forms that were born from sculpture in a very tenuous functional dimension. All his furniture raise the question of the presence of things in a world dedicated to the image.
