LES CRAFTIES (Collab. Since 2018) (Jeanne Martin and Marie-Marie Vergne ) - FRANCE/act.Belgique

The deckchair - Summer lounger, metal and canvas illustrated on both sides- 130 x 60 cm – unique piece 2021. Gallery certificate will be given to the buyer. Shipping to Paris 100 eur. Jeanne Martin was born in Montpellier and Marie-Marie Vergne in Arles. They met in Nîmes and studied textile design in Lyon, Geneva, Paris and Brussels. Les Crafties are inventing a new art form for interiors: textile frescoes. Founded by Jeanne Martin-Taton and Marie-Marie Vergne, the Brussels-based studio brings together solid colours and naïve prints on a thousand and one fabrics, all with an uninhibited taste for the decorative and the grandiloquent. Jeanne Martin-Taton was born in Montpellier and Marie-Marie Vergne in Arles. They studied textile design in Lyon, Geneva, Paris and Brussels. In 2018, they joined forces to form Les Crafties, an experimental, multi-disciplinary pairing that wavers between the decorative and the pictorial. In their studio in Brussels, the pair have fun re-enacting craft skills and reinventing patchwork through reinvented fabrics made from fabrics abandoned by the clothing industry. An approach that is both artisanal and experimental, revealed by the Villa Noailles during the Design Parade Toulon 2018 festival, of which they were finalists. Since then, they have worked with a wide range of clients and contexts, from India Mahdavi to Claude Cartier and Hermès.