On the occasion of the upcoming editions of Oui Design! and NYCxDESIGN Festival, Demisch Danant is proud to welcome back acclaimed French designer, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance who will present for the second consecutive year a selection of works from Made In Situ, his Paris and Lisbon-based project that advocates for a practice rooted in a given territory, exploring its materials, artisans, craftsmanship and cultural vernacular.
A dynamic examination of the exchange between person and place, Made In Situ is a series of cross-disciplinary works in conversation with nature, feeling, and materiality. For five years, Duchaufour-Lawrance has been living and working between Lisbon and Paris, developing these poetically site-specific collections alongside local artisans and craftspeople. His collections serve as testaments to time spent truly discovering a place, its people, and their history. Inscribed and contextualized, the creations that make up its collections are considered and, hence, more conscious. Each of them does not just tell the story of a place and its inhabitants, it expresses what unites them.After a first standalone Made In Situ exhibition in New York in the fall of 2022 alongside two presentations in Paris at and during Design Miami/Paris this past October, Demisch Danant and Duchaufour-Lawrance come together again for this showcase, bound by a shared admiration for narrative-driven design and material-forward conception. Highly respected for their meticulous curation of innovative twentieth-century design, Demisch Danant’s presentation of Made In Situ speaks to their respect for the artistry and perspective of Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, a rare contemporary amongst their roster of historical greats.
On view at Demisch Danant, Made In Situ by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance will present works from the collections Azulejos, Bronze & Beeswax, and Chêne & Liège.
In addition to the cocktail opening, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance will guide a private tour of the exhibition on Friday, May 17, 2024 at 2pm. Limited availability, please RSVP at https://vip.villa-albertine.org/_rjz9x.