Simon Chaouat and Mathias Vincent-Palazzi are founding members of Niveau Zéro Atelier, a research and creation studio created in 2020. By setting up a localised work method, the aim is to enter into a creative cycle with the places that host them. The process of managing the resource, from its extraction to its transformation, engages a spatialized and performative production, which makes an event, thus generating new ways of socialising. From this positioning stems a multi-scale practice, ranging from the experimental to the ultra-functional, which can involve both speculation and outright construction.
Invisible Collection and Mobilier national partner to promote contemporary creation and present limited-edition designs. Mobilier national is a major institution for contemporary creation and the promotion of French decorative arts, whose mission has been to ensure, since the seventeenth century, the conservation and restoration of unique collections in the world. Mobilier national has broadened its scope by launching an annual “Campagne d’Acquisition” to support creativity and to integrate these pieces into the national collections. These works are then exhibited in institutional buildings. Thanks to this unprecedented partnership, a selection of contemporary furniture revealed by the Mobilier national’s 2021 “Campagne d’Acquisition” is available for purchase: Collectors will be able to acquire furniture that has been included in the official collections, and is available in limited edition on Invisible Collection.
The Clay Bones bookcase consists mainly of two elements: aluminium trays and low-fired earthenware tubes. The clay comes from a process of reclaiming the earth from sites excavated during the architectural construction of Greater Paris. The aluminium work is carried out by boilermakers in Gironde. It is this dialogue between a metallurgical industry with a usually industrial vocation, and acupuncture samples of clay that the shelf tends to express. The irregularity of the clay mixes with the precision of the aluminium. The shelf seems fragile and is built like a skeleton. The furniture is based on a system of stacking and compression and allows for the modularity of this system.
Credit pictures: DA Spela Lenarcic / IIIRD MAN and Niveau Zéro Atelier
