Martin Laforêt Inside Out

Julien Lombrail, Co-founder of Carpenters Workshop Gallery comments :“We’ve been working with Martin since he graduated and are proud to see him mature into an incredible designer. We feel fortunate to host his first solo exhibition and can’t wait to share his new works inLondon from January and at PAD Paris.”

The relationship between materials is a main feature of Laforêt’s work. In his oak and concrete monumental lamps and coffee table, the two materials react with each other to give them their unique character and colour.

The bronze collection has been completed using the lost-wax casting technique with the edition of console and side tables as well as several floor and table lamps. Laforêt integrates the concrete moulds as part of his design which form the base of the pieces.

Laforêt comments: “My practice moves simultaneously between cast and mould, lending a poetry to the contrasting materials and preserving the intimate relationship between them. It allows you to see the fill and the void, the inside and the outside, the positive and the negative.»

Laforêt graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven and has been represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery after they discovered him at a graduate show in 2017.

Now Closed

30 January27 March 2020