Faithful to their ambition to defend contemporary creation, Aurelien Jeauneau and Jérémy Pradier are today presenting new works by designer Anthony Guerrée.
For their first collaboration, Anthony Guerrée and the Galerie Pradier-Jeauneau are offering singular drawings, numbered and limited to 100 copies each called Filiations. Drawing from their common references, the designer defends a dialogue with pieces of French heritage through a singular play of lines and shadows.
Anthony succeeds with Filiations the bet to resonate his practice of designer with a deep reflection on the French creation. Through this exhibition, the Galerie Pradier-Jeauneau fully assumes its desire to be a gallery of contemporary creation. Filiations is a link in the chain of French design, made up of passages, ruptures and innovations.
Anthony, Jérémy and Aurélien started chatting a few years ago, driven by their love of Marcel Proust and beautiful chairs. This aesthetic and literary complicity now takes shape in a long-term collaboration between the artist and the Gallery.
“René Gabriel, Raphaël Raffel, Pierre Guariche, Marcel Gascoin… I wish through the Filiations project to pay tribute to these French designers of the mid-20th century who knew how to mark their time with pieces with a singular but accessible design. These designers paved the way for a concrete approach to so-called “standard” furniture with high standards of quality and style. I chose some legendary furniture models that I wanted to draw because drawing means taking the time to observe, to perceive. Drawing is also the best way to pay tribute to my eyes. An assembly detail, a subtle angle, a combination of materials… elements that make all the specificity of these pieces of furniture-icons of French decorative arts. » Anthony Guerrée, March 2023.
Drawings numbered and in a limited edition of 100 copies
Anthony Guerree:
Designer trained at the École Boulle, Anthony Guerrée is a French designer, born in Normandy in 1987. He lives and works in Paris. His career bears witness to a deep attachment to high-quality craftsmanship and the history of French decorative arts.
Trained at the ÉCOLE BOULLE, his passion for interior designers of the 1930s led him to join the STUDIO ANDREE PUTMAN in 2010 to carry out projects with large houses and design custom-made furniture for architecture. He then joined Christophe Delcourt in 2015 to accompany him for five years in the design of DELCOURT COLLECTION furniture but also in his various collaborations in France and abroad. In 2020, Anthony Guerrée opens his creative studio to develop his writing, the fruit of his travels, encounters and readings.
Through a first manifesto project entitled "Les Assises du temps perdu", a collection of chairs inspired by characters from Marcel Proust, Anthony Guerrée reveals his way of doing design: "I like the idea of designing collections like writes stories. In 2022, one of its seats, the “Verdurin” screen chair, will enter the MOBILIER NATIONAL collections. A few months later, he received the "FRENCH DESIGN 100" prize at the Élysée.