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Ionna Vautrin

Geometric, organic, colourful and encouraging - for the precise designs by Ionna Vautrin, a lot of adjectives are required. What her broad range of product designs - including the Foscarini lights Binic and Couchin - unite, is their balance between causality and formality, reduction and color opulence. After studying at L'École de design Nantes Atlantique, Ionna Vautrin worked with George J. Sowden and at Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, but since 2011 has run her own studio in Paris and is one of the most successful designers of her generation with a roster of clients such as Foscarini, Lexon, Christian Dior, Bosa, and many others.

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smow Blog Interview: Ionna Vautrin - For me objects need to relate to the human, to human forms...

...French designer Ionna Vautrin first reached a broad international public with her Binic lamp for Italian manufacturer Foscarini, a design which, it's fair to say, is/was one of those genuinely, gloriously, joyous moments in the (hi)story of lighting design, a work full of character yet devoid of vanity, universally applicable yet always individual... Ionna Vautrin is however more than Binic: before Binic Ionna had enjoyed a varied, international career working with a diverse roster of studios and across an equally diverse range of design genres...

Maison et Objet Paris Autumn 2018: High 5!!

...TGV Lamp by Ionna Vautrin for Moustache X SNCF In context of the development of a new generation of TGV high speed trains, French designer Ionna Vautrin was commissioned to design a new table lamp, the result was launched on-board, by the French national railway operator SNCF in 2017: and was launched off-board, by the French manufacturer Moustache at Maison et Objet 2018 According to Ionna the form and design of the lamp is based upon a range of impulses and influences from across the centuries of rail travel including, 19th century Art Nouveau train design and also the work of that Grand Doyen of French train design Roger Tallon; if you will the various "golden ages" of train travel when new technology seemed to make the impossible possible...

(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: December

...In addition December 2013 saw the launch of the Vitra Design Museum's book "The Vitra Campus – Architecture Design Industry" and we became acquainted with the lamp Binic by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini...

Binic by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini

..."1 We admit to having wondered when we saw Ionna Vautrin's Binic lamp on the "Light for tomorrow" table at the Vitra Design Museum's Lightopia exhibition... If we're honest we don't know in how far Ionna Vautrin and/or Foscarini genuinely plan to replace the light bulb with an OLED...


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