Aurélie Mossé

EXTRA ORDINARY furniture

http://www.aureliemosse.com

An attempt for emotionally durable design, challenging the relationship between textiles and furniture through evolving objects for domestic experiences.

Biography

Aurélie Mossé is a textile designer from France, currently challenging the boundaries between textile and furniture.

Prior to her MA in Design for Textile Futures, Aurélie graduated from Esaa Duperré (Paris) in fashion and environment design, in September 2006. At this occasion, she developed a chairs’ project exploring the ways to give back emotion and originality to mass-produced items.

She also developed skills in digital and screen-printed techniques as well as communication design during her BA in surface, material and textile design. Nowadays, she is exploring the potential of laser-cutting techniques.

She confirmed her interest for design and innovation through placements with companies such as Philips design, Peclers Paris, Jakob Schlaepfer, Pablo Reinoso and Christelle Le Déan studio. Aurélie is strong at colours and has a great sense of aesthetic. She enjoys interdisciplinary research, future habitat mapping as well as working with multicultural teams. She has the double Swiss and French nationality. She nurtures a great interest in languages, speaks French and English fluently and would be happy to improve her spanish.

Extraordinary furniture

Title

EXTRA ORDINARY furniture

Research question

Can challenging the relationship between textiles and furniture through the passage from 2D to 3D lead to the de-standardization of domestic space?

Key Words

Poetics of the everyday ▪ de-standardization ▪ evolving furniture ▪ emotionally durable design ▪ change 2D-3D ▪ interactivity ▪ playfulness ▪ up-cycling materials ▪

Context & Rationale

“Our lives are full of objects, and through many of these objects –who’s recurrence and familiarity causes us to take them for granted- we describe our everyday reality. […]It is not by accident that we tend to call them everyday objects. They define and constitute a great part of our lives, and sometimes they contribute to our transformation –without us even noticing*”. However, mass-production and the desire of democratisation have re-shaped our domestic spaces up to a worldwide standardisation of objects. Does this mean a loss of meaning in our lives? Interiors’stereotyping, encouraged by brands such as Ikea confirms it. But this objects’ loss of meaning is also and especially at the origin of the current ecological crisis, as Jonathan Chapman demonstrated in “Emotionally durable design”. Objects fail to install a long-term relationship with the user by lack of meaning. They quickly become a “symptom of expired empathy […] that leads to the dumping of one by another.”. This makes explicit why this project is about to materialize new types of objects, capable of supporting deeper and more meaningful relationship with their user. The result is a collection of evolving furniture, challenging the boundaries between 2D and 3D, and exploring how everyday mundane objects can become poetic and surprising in a low-tech, playful way, and with the implication of the user only.

* Storie di cose exhibition - http://www.lungomare.org)

Materials and Technology

• Exploration of a range of "SUPER Papers" from cardboard to Tyvek® non-woven fabrics and especially up-cycling papers such as Yupo®, with the kind support of Bauschelinnemann for Tecofoil®: http://www.bauschlinnemann.de/de/

• Paper-making and cutting techniques, with a specific focus on laser-cutting. Screen-printing has given the final touch.

Outcomes in Pictures

A collection of furniture for domestic experiences. [Extra]ordinary furniture is a collection of slow objects, aiming at reducing stress by facilitating everyday creative and contemplative rituals. It includes:

• Mille-feuille table, a table to be peeled away, layer after layer.

• [extra]ordinary wallpapers to sculpt

Credit Photos : Mathilde Fuzeau

Annexes: a PDF presentation as well as a written paper of this project are available upon request.

Thank you !!! Many thanks to all of those who, directly or indirectly, have contributed to this project, the list is too long to mention everybody here but thanks for believing in this project from the beginning.

Other projects

• MA year 1 projects
• Former and Next Projects

Links

• http://www.philipsdesign.com/
• http://www.pabloreinoso.com
• http://www.jakob-schlaepfer.ch
• http://www.peclersparis.com/
• http://www.duperre.org

Contact

Feel free to contact me :

• Mail : mosseaurelie@yahoo.fr
• Dk mobile :+45 50 36 91 92
• Fr mobile : +33 (0)6 72 80 37 03

Website

For more insight about my work, please visit: http://www.aureliemosse.com

-- AurelieMosse - 18 Sep 2008