Background
Alexandre Labruyère is a passionate designer who loves exploring the many fields of contemporary design, including industrial design, leather goods, decorative objects and graphic design. This constant evolution has given him extensive knowledge of and a keen passion for the most varied materials. After a stint at a sports equipment company, Alexandre was admitted at the renowned Ecole Boulle in Paris, to learn woodworking and cabinetmaking. The specific skills he acquired inform his original approach to materials with unexpected techniques.
Signature Style
Alexandre Labruyère’s work stands on three fundamental pillars: tension, lightness and simplicity. These three notions guide the research, the experimentation, the creation and the manufacturing of his designs. They also give a structure and a common base to each object. The quest for taut, yet fluid lines guides his work, which is enhanced by contrasting colours. Simplicity, in its most positive sense, lends the object the quality of self-evidence in its form, function and feel. Everything in his work is imbued with the ordinary made poetry: the objects we see don’t confuse nor disturb us. Rather, they appear to consolidate our interior world, and call upon a shared memory of timeless forms.
Showstoppers
The Petiole chair epitomizes Alexandre’s design grammar. Inspired by the petiole, the botanic word for the stalk that seamlessly attaches the leaf blade to the stem. The perfect embodiment of smoothness and fluidity.
