Matali Crasset
b. 1965
Matali Crasset was born in 1965 in Châlons-en-Champagne. Her parents are farmers and she spent her childhood in Normée, a small village of 80 inhabitants. After her graduation at the E.N.S.C.I. workshops in 1991, she participated in the Milan Triennial with her project "Domestic Trilogy", a set of three appliances diffusing warmth - whispers and intimacy -, light - images and memories -, and water - scents and swirls. She first stayed in Milan where she worked with Denis Santachiara on architecture and design projects, and on the organization of exhibitions. Back in Paris, she began working with Philippe Starck at the Agency and for Thomson Multimedia, where she stayed five years and became head of Thomson's design centre, Thim Thom. In 1998, she founded her own company. Her reflection on domestic and urban rituals inspired her to create objects and furniture for Artemide, Authentics, Cristal Saint-Louis, Delta, DIM, Domodinamica, Domeau & Perès, Dornbracht, Edra, LaCie, Lexon, Möve, nekt /Pantone-Universe, Néotu, Orangina, Peyroulet & cie, Ricard, Sam Laïk, Seb, s.m.a.k., ThomsonS?, and to design a street furniture project, ?The empathic chair?, for which she received a grant f…
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