Patrick Jouin

Designer

Paris / France

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Born in Nantes in 1967, Patrick Jouin graduated from ENSCI - Les Ateliers (École National Supérieure Création Industrielle) in Paris in 1992. He worked as a designer at Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-Lits, and in 1993, he began a brief stint with Nordmende a company that produces televisions under the artistic direction of Philippe Starck, for whom he worked until 1999. Jouin has been designing creations between decorative arts and industrial design since 1998: chairs, sofas and beds, a car project and stands for various car shows in collaboration with Imaad Rahmouni. Alain Ducasse, the famous French chef, brought him to international prominence by commissioning him to create interior architecture and furniture for his restaurants in Paris and New York.

As well as working on industrial design projects with his office, Patrick Jouin ID, he also works on interior design projects through Jouin Manku, founded in 2006 with his colleague Sanjit Manku. For the two, there is no distinction between architecture and design. Every question regarding to space and its relationship with people - on every scale - is an opportunity to express unity of design.

Jouin has developed furniture for some of the best-known companies in the sector. His longest-standing collaborations include Porada, whose most recent products include the Leaf coffee tables, and Pedrali, for whom he designed several successful series of upholstered furniture, including the sinuous Ila armchair collection. For Cassina, he created a family of products (table, chairs, sofa, complements) that debuted at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 2003. He collaborates with Kartell, Alessi, Puiforcat, JC Decaux, Fermob, Pedrali, Busnelli. For FIAM, he designed the Aura curved glass display case and the Magma glass table.

Patrick Jouin's career was consecrated in 2009 with a solo show at the Centre Pompidou entitled La substance du design where he presented his first projects and two works created for the city of Paris: the Vélib' stations, a bike-sharing system promoted by the city council in 2007, and the "sanisettes" public toilets with a characteristic wavy profile that emerge from pavements like small architectures. Many of his creations are in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including the "Solid" collection at MoMA, the first series of life-size furniture made with the aid of 3D printing technology in 2004. In 2011, he received the Compasso d'Oro for the PastaPot creation designed for Alessi in collaboration with Ducasse. His interior design projects include the Alain Ducasse bar-restaurant at the Hotel Plaza Athénée, the restaurant of Louis XV, the Van Cleef and Arpels showroom, and numerous other commercial and dining venues in Europe, Asia and the United States. ... More ... less

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