Collection: Constance Guisset
Constance Guisset was born in 1976 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. In 1998, she graduated from the ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) Business School in Paris and later specialised at the IEP (Institut d'Études Politiques). Still a student, she spent a year in Japan working as an assistant to a Member of Parliament and participating in the election campaign for mayor of Tokyo. After these experiences, she decided to study design and enrolled at ENSCI - Les Ateliers (École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle) in Paris, where she graduated in 2007. In a very short time, she received important awards like the Grand Prix du Design de la Ville de Paris and the Prix du Public à la Design Parade de la Villa Noailles. In 2010, she was named Designer of the Year at Salon Maison & Objet.
In 2003, she met Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and worked as administrative manager of their office for several years. In 2009, she founded her design studio and began her intense activity in design, interior architecture and set design. With a constant focus on comfort, ergonomics, and the search for new and elegant forms, Constance Guisset collaborates with furniture brands like Petite Friture, Moustache, Tectona, Nature & Découvertes, Molteni&C, LaCividina, and ZaoZuo. The office also creates industrial objects for LaCie and jewellery for the MiniMasterpiece gallery. Some of Guisset's works are part of museum collections - among the most iconic, the Duplex aquarium-cage, the Vertigo lamp and the Leviosa lamp.
Since 2009, Constance Guisset has been designing stage sets for such performances as the ballets Le Funambule, Les Nuits, La Fresque and Winterreise by Angelin Preljocaj; the Laurent Garnier concert at the Salle Pleyel; and the Everyness choreography by the Wang Ramirez company. She also designs sets for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Musée du quai Branly in Paris and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille or for brands like Galeries Lafayette and Molteni&C. In 2021, she designed the permanent sets for the Philharmonie des enfants at the Philharmonie de Paris and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Fontevraud. Constance Guisset has designed the interiors of La Samaritaine restaurant in Paris for Groupe Ludéric (2021) and collective spaces for Van Cleef & Arpels (2019) and Accor (2014).
She has been writing and illustrating children's books for publisher Albin Michel Jeunesse since 2017. In May 2012, the Chapelle des Calvairiennes, Contemporary Art Centre of Pays de Mayenne, held her first solo exhibition. In 2016, MUDAC (Musée cantonal de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains) in Lausanne dedicated a retrospective to Guisset, followed by an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2017 and at the Villa Noailles in Hyères (France) in 2021.
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