수집: Pia Chevalier

Pia Chevalier is an independent designer and craftswoman whose creative process is greatly instinctive. Her inspiration flows as she works the matter that composes her pieces – an approach which enables her to rely in great part on spontaneity. Pia Chevalier creates her designs using raw materials and is proficient in working steel, brass, fabric, copper, and ceramic. She blends, opposes, and appreciates all the different matters she experiments with in each new creation. Her pieces are everyday objects which she reinvents in the form of sculptures to spark unique, strong emotions.

During her training at Boulle school of fine arts and crafts, Pia Chevalier studied design and craftsmanship and specialised in decorating and surface treatment. She then spent three months in Kyoto, Japan, where she perfected her lacquering technique, before heading to Montreal to gain specialisation in industrial design. In 2017, Chevalier completed the final step of her academic marathon with a masters in product design.

During her final degree, she set up her workshop at the Ofèverie in Saint-Denis, France, where goldsmith company Christofle was formerly based. Her very first projects involved creating stem vases, lamps, and tables out of metal, on the verge of unique design pieces and works of art. Then, after exploring materials that weren’t as hard and cold as metal, she started working ceramic, for which she adopted a largely intuitive approach, using techniques such as modelling and pinching. The freedom of expression which her artistic approach allows her in her work gives rise to designs that are both fun and aesthetically pleasing.