YOUNG GUESTS OF HONOUR
Discover our two young guests of honour at the Contemporary Design Market 2021: Pierre-Emmanuel Vandeputte and Roxane Lahidji.
Roxane Lahidji was born in Paris in 1992 and grew up in the french capital before studying illustration and product design in Strasbourg (HEAR).
After graduating from the Social Design department of Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017, Roxane Lahidji developed her project ‘’Marbled salts’’ and was awarded among the 100 best French international designers by FD100 price of the VIA and won the 2019 Bolia award.
Roxane Lahidji is a social designer specialized in ecological material developments and applications. Her research focuses on achieving luxurious looking objects and surfaces from low costs and raw resources. In this sense, she seeks to redefine the meaning of the objects she makes by balancing local and renewable resources, environmentally friendly production processes, and essential human values.
With the deep concern of conciliating production and sustainability, her design uses disregarded or cheap materials brought to a new life, while twisting low tech methods and traditional crafts techniques She describes her practice as an alchemical journey by developing her own transforming and molding methods.
Born in 1991, Belgian designer Pierre-Emmanuel Vandeputte received his master’s degree in industrial design from the ENSAV La Cambre in 2014.
Following his graduation, he opened his design studio in the Brussels city center.
Since the beginning of his professional career, Pierre-Emmanuel has been invited to exhibit an - nually in cities such as Copenhague, Paris, and Milan.
From conception to production, Pierre-Emmanuel imbues his designs with a sense of the surreal and a respect for craftsmanship. Each piece has a unique voice, and emotional power. Together, they speak to our more playful and curious nature, inviting us to live experiences unlimited by everyday expectations.
His work is enigmatic, challenging what we consider to be evident in order to change habits and perceptions. His designs are indeed symbolic of an urge to break free from the mundane, to chase originality, while staying within the framework of the most noble materials.
