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Dominique Perrault & Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost
“A project is a conceptual process, an attitude that evolves, contradicts itself, modifies itself, adapts and then transforms itself. And I find that extraordinary. The course of this process involves politics, economics, but also questions of functionality, experience, and aesthetics.”
After graduating L'école Camondo, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost began her career designing jewellery and accessories for Elisabeth de Sennevile before entering the world of architecture through collaborations with Patrick Rubin and Zaha Hadid. This, then, led to the project and collaboration that has lasted three decades.
Dominique Perrault and his firm, Dominique Perrault Architecture, had already done significant work, but it was in 1989, when the DPA team was selected by an international jury to design what would become the François Mitterrand branch of the French National Library. As part of that team, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost designed much of the lighting and furniture for the library.
Finding their sensibilities complimentary, Perrault appointed Lauriot-Prévost as art director for Dominique Perrault Architecture, overseeing not only the firm’s design work, but also extensive experiments in materials, such as the metal mesh, that so fascinates both Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost and Dominique Perrault.
Intricate yet industrial, strong yet yielding, various meshes born of these experiments have found use in DPA projects and designs, notably the striking In the Tube and In the Sun lights, the latter of which was originally conceived by the pair as tribute to the Sun King, Louis XIV, for the renovation of the Pavillion Dufour at the Chateau de Versailles in 2018.
Lights Designed by Dominique Perrault & Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost
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