Coup-de-foudre

Rooted. Coup-de-foudre are Goedel Vermandere and Jan Arickx. The law regards us as a legal entity. We think of it as a story that started with an uprooting and which, over time and with plenty of plot twists, has evolved, from a temporary balance and upheavals to unity. We have gradually established our roots, somewhere between life and work, between techniques and intuition, as business owners and artists, on the cusp between the studio and the client, between knowing and searching. Search for us and you’ll find us, somewhere in the middle among all these contrasts. The cornerstones of our work We create fragile, unpredictable objects. The kind that require a certain finesse that is not explained in manuals. Because there is no detailed master plan for what we do. No timeline either, that explains the various steps to our final result in minute details. Sometimes our minds can only understand what our hands have produced over time. And sometimes time is the essence for mastering a craft that allows the hands to manufacture what the brain has conceived or what our instinct dictates. Much like you need a positive and a negative charge to produce electricity, our work is the fruit of a never-ending tension between uncertainty and mystery. As humans, we search for answers about the significance of beauty, truth and love in life. Happiness can be found on the edge of mystery, where these answers are concealed under a veil of uncertainty. And when this unexpected beauty is suddenly revealed to us, a spell of enlightenment is suddenly cast. We experience a sense of freedom, of having overcome our fears. We are proud to sign our creation. And moved to the core as the realisation dawns that what we have produced encapsulates light and warmth, and has the potential to move others in equal measure. Uncertainty. Mystery. Magic. The cornerstones of our work.