The construction system is identical to that of the console table but to which the idea of unknown proportions is added, reflecting glass towers launching upwards. How do you support a mass of wood or of glass on a rather spindly base? I like to become an architect and hold huge volumes in position on supports which appear too fine.
"FORMS" by Eric Jourdan at Galerie Gosserez After almost ten years, Eric Jourdan is back to present his design in a gallery on invitation by Marie Bérangère Gosserez. With three pieces and a series of vases, he positions his plastic and functional morphology in a striking way as he is one of the rare French designers able to do it. Once you like Jourdan, you will always like him as his design is so constant it is symbolic of designers with design as the driving force ‘At the beginning I never imagine an object or a piece of furniture as a whole, I draw a detail (an assemblage, a groove, a link...) which will lead me to another and then another ... This method is linked to the practice of drawing which creates a continuous link between all these sketches. The organisation of these forms follows later. I arrange, remove, build and assemble elements which become different pieces."
"Drawing can be liberating or imprisoning; it depends on where we stop the infernal machine which consists of covering whole notebooks. That is where your associate steps in: organising; clarifying; making you take a step back. For this exhibition the role was fulfilled by Marie-Bérangère Gosserez."
There is no story telling with Eric Jourdan and therefore no scenarios, leaving room for pure form, like his fellow students Charpin, Bauchet, Bouroullec and no artistic sanctification of his plastic manipulation either : "Showing work in a gallery could be seen as an outlet allowing a designer to be liberated from industrial or commercial constraints, but this is not so, design does not just happen on its own without a drawing, without a gallery owner or a manufacturer...Through this exhibition, I want to show that everything will always be just exchanges, mistakes, disappointment, tension, feedback, progress and pleasure. I do not believe in the posture of artists; it is all about co-production in our profession.’
‘Promenade’ console table I readily imagine objects like constructions, architectural objects with plateaus, pillars, openings, in short language more related to architecture, a field which fascinates me. It is a question of construction here and especially to leave the different assemblage, piles of materials and textures ‘on view.’ Furniture is open like an open block in urbanism where each plan opens onto another invitingly.
The base is not aligned throughout the structure or the rear panel. This configuration allows the viewpoint to pass through the furniture like strolling around a structure.
Lacquered metal and walnut veneer H: 100 – L: 100 – D: 30.5 cm Limited edition of 12 copies
‘Mirror Tower’ The construction system is identical to that of the console table but to which the idea of unknown proportions is added, reflecting glass towers launching upwards. How do you support a mass of wood or of glass on a rather spindly base? I like to become an architect and hold huge volumes in position on supports which appear too fine...
Lacquered metal, walnut veneer and mirror H: 180 – L: 60 – D: 20 cm Limited edition of 12 copies
