" Beauty is not the goal, it is what remains when the form is right. "
The work of Stanislas Garaud starts from an observation: nature does not produce forms at random. Its crystals, its veins, its geometries repeated at every scale obey laws of absolute rigour. It is from this conviction, and from the practice of sculpture, that a formal language was born which today runs through his entire body of work.
The sculptures explore mineral geometry at its most radical. The furniture extends this research into inhabited space, with the same demand for rightness and the collaboration of master craftsmen. The sculptures are unique pieces. The furniture exists as unique pieces or in limited series.
hapax is the most intimate extension of this approach: a furniture project where form is born no longer from universal laws but from a singular existence. An object conceived from a life, that could belong to no one else.
D E S I G N
A sculptor's practice extended into furniture.
Form and function held to the same standard.
D E S I G N
A sculptor's practice extended into furniture.
Form and function held to the same standard.
A R T
Sculptures born from observing the forms that Nature produces with absolute rigour.
J O U R N A L
I. Pyrite, or perfection as accident
It all began with an astonishment before the precision of a mineral.
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Twelve texts written from the studio. On form, material, craftsmen, and the questions that work raises without ever quite resolving them.
