Background

Garance Vallée grew up in a family of artists before training as an architect, and her work has since unfolded at every scale, from drawings and paintings to furniture, scenography and interiors. From Paris, she merges the territories of architecture, art and design to explore new relationships between man, his body, space and objects, as well as their links with domesticity, everyday life and intimacy. It is an approach that leads her to constantly rethink the place of man in his environment and his reconciliation with nature.

Signature Style

Organic forms, architectural lines, totemic silhouettes. Vallée breaks free from the rules of architectural design to deploy her universe in all dimensions, where a piece of furniture can behave like a building and a drawing can behave like a plan. Her palette draws on earth tones and Mediterranean warmth, set against the geometric rigour of Parisian avant-garde modernism. Experimentation remains central: her organic works evolve naturally from one medium to the next, conceived less to be looked at than to be experienced by the body in space.

Showstoppers

For Nordic Knots, Vallée reimagined the Stockholm house’s signature Grand collection with totemic cut-outs and reworked angles: the Dusty White, Moss and Leo rugs each stand alone or interlock like the pieces of a puzzle. Her lamps for Garcé Dimofski bring the same thinking to tabletop scale. Checkmate sets a hand-carved raw wood base against a matte white ceramic body, while Puddle and Mountain Climber balance organic clay volumes on angular ones. All three are handmade in Portugal, and no two leave the kiln alike.