QC Design
Twelve+ Quebec designers join forces in this project to showcase their talent and protean vision by exhibiting high quality products for design lovers far and wide. In 2006, Montreal’s creative je-ne-sais-quoi was recognized worldwide when the city was appointed as UNESCO City of Design. This recognition attests to the many ways Quebec designers draw on the oldest of craft traditions and the newest of design processes to create works with an original vocabulary and sensitivity. Together they embody the future of Québécois design. QC Design’s signature is a savant mix of materials, forms, techniques and styles in response to contemporary interior design challenges with concepts that are cutting-edge, often socially responsible and always original. These woodworkers, textile designers, ceramicists, lighting and objects and industrial designers will present singular products that are sure to seduce professionals and the public at large. QC Design is committed to promote Quebec’s creative spirit by establishing a go-to guide for innovative, accessible products and emerging talents.
Atelier-D
Jonathan Dorthe is born in Montreal in 1978, he has a Master’s in Architecture and did professional studies in photography and printmaking. After working for more than 10 years in different architecture firms he decided to start his own studio. Atelier-D is born with his desire to reinterpret traditional craft techniques. He uses new technologies to produce limited editions of everyday contemporary objects. Inspired by his studies in architecture and interest in patterns, he creates an architectural vocabulary by mixing motifs with materials. Throughout his collections, Atelier-D tries to define contemporary craftsmanship.
Atelier-D design
Ceramik B.
Basma is Montreal-based ceramicist behind the studio Ceramik B.. Basma’s work reflects evidence of her attraction to minimalism. . In the last two years, she has been involved on a new project creating one-of- a-kind pieces. In this medium she explores the relationship between the content of writings, shapes, lines and materials that can translate meaning. Her wall pieces are marked by her signature elements: lines, curves, organic shapes and textures all which translate into impressions. By meticulously crafting the shape and texture, each piece evokes an organic quality and the rhythm and movement carry an invitation. Shapes can carry the essence of an experience, convey it and sometimes transcend it.
CeramikB design
Tat Chao
With a background in industrial design, Tat explores diverses aspects of design such as object, funiture, lighting and jewelry. He also tackles spatial and graphic design projects with passion and originality. Sensory, poetic, conscientious, eclectic are among many terms that characterize his unique work. Creativity and beauty has no boundaries.
NON-USELESS
They work together, They live together. One is more creative, the other more analytic. The balance is just fine. Fun and efficiency.
NON-USELESS’s first collection was launched at Milan Fair in 2006, with an enthusiastic response from fellow designers, customers and a press coverage from around the world: Interior Design, Citylife, I.D., Casa, etc. Since then, they have launched more than 12 original products. Functions inspire them and they often create objects to maximize their usefulness, hence their name: NON-USELESS. They create contemporary objects and pieces of furniture that are multifunctional or modular because they believe that this extends their useful life and therefore avoids (on a small scale) waste, over-consumption and over-furnishing homes. They design them to be funny with unusual shapes and they make sure they can fit well in any room. They love to experiment with new materials and have fun finding something unusual out of it. As their work has an artistic side, they also like to collaborate with galleries to create installations and objects.
L’Atelier NON-USELESS design
Marie-José Gustave
Marie-José Gustave has been combining artistic research and lifestyle to create functional art pieces out of recycled cardboard for more than ten years. Her work, influenced by her Caribbean origins, lies between industrial design and contemporary craft. Pushing the limits of an under-appreciated material, Marie José creates innovative and decorative home objects that maintain a raw, natural quality. Concerned with craftsmanship, texture, and volume, she makes each one of her objects by hand. Marie is a member of Le Conseil des Métiers d’arts du Québec, and received SIDIM’s (Montreal international design show) Excellence Award 2010 for her lamps. Her studio is based in Montreal (Quebec).
Photo by Stephanie LAMY
Rachel Grenon Céramiste
The platters made by Rachel Grenon are impressive and takes a lot of space! She uses glazing techniques in an artistic and unique matter. She’s inspired by the sentence: “It’s for the unknown thing than the eye is opened… “. Her oversized “The Swimmers” bowls were showned at the Bi-annual Fine Art Show in Korea.
Otra Design
Otra (On The Road Again) was created in Montreal in February 2011 by Julie Ferrero and Guillaume Darnajou. After graduating from the Grande Tourrache design school in Toulon, France in 2007, they both decided to go overseas to pursue further studies. In 2010, they received degrees in industrial design from the Faculté of Aménagement at the University of Montreal. The Otra workshop came to life through a common deep rooted passion to work towards sustainable development. In our over-consuming society, already struggling to solve the problems of tomorrow, design offers a new path towards more environmentally friendly products.
Otra Design
Foutu Tissu
Foutu Tissu is a one-of-a-kind textile design and upholstery company whose vision is unique, original and, most importantly, born out of a desire to take an eco-friendly approach to how we use household items. Foutu Tissu’s communal workspace, where artisanal upholstery meets handmade screen printing, was born in 2007, when woodworker and re-upholsterer, Isabelle Bergeron, joined forces with textile designer, Emanuelle Dion. Together, they decided to create unique and original high-quality re-furbished furniture which relies on their mastery of design, hand-made screen printing, and eco-consciousness. Foutu Tissu’s timeless designs defy the default industrially-produced design standard, in favour of artistry, aesthetics and quality. As far as we’re concerned, when re-upholstery meets screen-printing, used meets new, and fabric meets wood, any piece of old furniture can take on a new life, to fit in with contemporary interior design.
Foutu Tissu – credit photo Jerome Guibord
LAMPI LAMPA
By assembling unusual objects more commonly found in plumbing, mechanics and cooking, Emmanuel Cognée creates breathtaking lamps that have the unique ability to make you forget what each of the salvaged, modified parts may have originally been intended for. To find his materials, Emmanuel Cognée not only frequents flea markets and rummage sales, he also hunts in big-box home-improvement stores, scavenges through the cast-offs of the local bicycle-repair shop, and searches in a bulk kitchen-supply store—you may even find him looking through your trash!
LampiLampa design
BOIS DEBOUT
Bois Debout is a workshop specializing in furniture and objects made from high-grade recovered wood. This project involves meticulous design and building methods to craft this material and its striking motifs into modern, long-lasting pieces. Literally, ‘stand-up wood’, the name Bois Debout is a nod to the strong, inherently noble nature of wood, but also to the idea of trees we like to see left standing.
Bois Debout design
MORIN CHOINIERE MONTREAL
Morin Choiniere is a small company based in Montreal, Canada specialized in the creation and realisation of contemporary objects involving mix media such as glass, metal and laminate. Since 1989, Richard Morin and Claude Choiniere pride themselves in their ability to reinvent everyday objects into refined contemporary decorative art. Their Wall Candle Holders and their « Light Stick » are easily identified by their innovative and exclusive design.
AtelierB
Design and fabrication of unique architectural products and furniture using ultra high performance concrete. Custom designed or prefabricated: Residential and commercial counters, panels and various objects.
