Nouvelle Vague 2

During the 2013 Salone del Mobile, Cédric Morisset curated an exhibition showcasing the work of five new faces in French design: Pauline Deltour, Guillaume Delvigne, François Dumas, Victoria Wilmotte and Dan Yeffet.

During the 2013 Salone del Mobile, the second "Nouvelle Vague" exhibit gathered a series of new players in the French design scene. They are working for brands with catchy, easy to remember names — La Chance, Petite Friture, Moustache, Super-ette, Specimen, and Goodbye Edison, among others in the plethora of new French furniture and object brands. The country has never known such an entrepreneurial frenzy in the design world. In barely 3 years, the French design market has seen more editors and design galleries — Next Level Galerie, Galerie BSL, Galerie Gosserez — emerge than over the last ten years. In very little time, their pioneering work, production, and commercialisation of new object and furniture collections has permitted a new generation of designers to stand out and become visible. Their work has also given this new "wave" some confidence: uninhibited, polyglot and entrepreneurial, these designers take risks, auto-produce and are opening out to the world.

Nouvelle vague 2. François Dumas, Eva light, foam — François Dumas, Eva light, foam

In 2011, the first "Nouvelle Vague" exhibit showed the work of five up-and-coming designers during the Salone del Mobile; the exhibition subsequently traveled to New York, Tel Aviv, Toronto and other cities across the globe, and the designers represented went on to be distinguished with several awards. During the 2013 Salone del Mobile, Cédric Morisset curated "Nouvelle Vague 2. The French Domestic Landscape", showcasing the work of five new faces: Pauline Deltour, Guillaume Delvigne, François Dumas, Victoria Wilmotte and Dan Yeffet.

For the first time each of them presented entirely new creations — free edition prototypes, small production and new editions —, radically different from each other but united in a spirit of complicity and solidarity. "These designers are outlining the new contours of the French domestic landscape," the curator implies, "whilst their creations form a manifesto for the freedom of expression and to take initiative."

Nouvelle vague 2. Guillaume Delvigne, Aerostat, blown glass, lacquered metal — Guillaume Delvigne, Aerostat, blown glass, lacquered metal

Nouvelle Vague 2

During the 2013 Salone del Mobile, Cédric Morisset curated an exhibition showcasing the work of five new faces in French design: Pauline Deltour, Guillaume Delvigne, François Dumas, Victoria Wilmotte and Dan Yeffet.

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