ARTISTS
Jean-Michel Gadoua
A natural born curator and editor, Jean-Michel Gadoua has built up a reputation as an aesthetic leader in contemporary design. Always the visionary, the designer by a trade, started his career in graphic design and music, as the creative director for the record label Le Son 666. He then moved into interior design, joining the reputable high-end boutique Celadon Collection, first as a design consultant before taking on the role of Creative Director. In 2020, he founded Éditions 8888, an experimental design cell, out of a desire to create without constraints.
Brutalist, Montreal ’76. Laser-guided aesthetics, founder 8888. Blasts of 666 sounds, from noise-music to surfaces. Sci-fi editions, proto/post-historical design. Youth of the Beast.
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Edith Sevigny-Martel
Edith Sevigny-Martel is a ceramicist based in Montreal. Her work comprises of organic shapes which she builds using pinch, slab, and coiling methods of hand-building. Often either exposing the raw stoneware in her finished pieces or muted, neutral colours.Â
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GUILLAUME MÉNARD
Growing up through family roots, hands-on construction. Atelier Mainor in 2008, commercial spaces, custom furniture. MRDK since 2017, architecture/design, large scale projects, harmony. Old punk.
Guillaume Ménard is an interior designer based in Montreal.
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ALEXANDRE JONCAS POUR STUDIO D’ARMES
Alexandre Joncas, Gildas Le Bars, designers/craftsmen, lush landscapes. New technologies, age-old techniques. Enigmatic, modern, poetic, singular, audacious, a yarn spun from light, sublime, d’Armes.
Alexandre Joncas is a lighting designer based in Morin-Heights.
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IBIYANE
Furniture in ongoing conversation. Sub-Saharan African reflections on physicality and comfort in dialogue with Eurocentric perspectives on ergonomics. Elodie Dérond, Tania Doumbe Fines, symbiotic work, handcrafted, dextrous. Ibiyanε (in Batanga): to know one another.
Ibiyanε is a duo of multidisciplinary artists based in Martinique.
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SIMON JOHNS
Fine arts-trained designer straight out of East Bolton QC. Limited-edition sculptural furniture and lighting. EYES on the pure and raw shapes of the Mississquoi Valley. Primary materials harnessed with GUTS, the VOICE mimics, and mirrors with precise compositions. Outcomes of contemplation, connections to our environment.
Simon used to tour in vans playing punk music, he now tours in vans with heavy furniture.
Simon Johns is a furniture designer based in East Bolton.
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GAULEYBROTHERS
Multidisciplinary entrepreneurs, artists, designers, contractors. Humans wearing their hearts on their sleeves, a hammer on the other. Well-raised gentlemen. The pure experience of Innovative designs for the future, prized all over. Avant-garde vision for over hundreds of spaces and places. Strong identities, clear message, unforgettable visuals, textural manifestations, sleek interpretations. Toby & Taylor 4ever.
Gauleybrothers is an interior design studio based in Montreal.
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Studio KIFF
Hélène Thiffault/Rachel Bussin, Montréal/2019. Commercial interiors, enfants terribles, individualistic design practice precisely answers functional and aesthetic needs. Texturo-chromaformal synesthesia, real personal experiences.
Studio Kiff is an interior design studio based in Montreal.
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David Raymond
Objectification of the unique; common and aesthetic. Pushing materials past their limits, respect of physical characteristics, results full of questions. A young philosopher of materiality, eyes looking straight into the future.
David Raymond is a Montreal based industrial designer.
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New American House
A collaborative project by Mati Contal & Simon Petepiece. Drawing and destroying from their training in architecture through the unconventional use of industrial materials and standardized products. Functional art, objects, furniture. Designed and made with precision.
New American House is an industrial design studio based in Montreal.
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JEAN-FRANCOIS TOUSIGNANT
Jean-François Tousignant is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal.
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Mike Sibthorp
Mike Sibthorp is an English photographer living in the Languedoc region of France.
Sibthorp was Head of Photography at Berkshire College of Art & Design in England where he taught for fifteen years.
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Feed
Paper feed, news feed, feedback, feed your head. Pennel/Daudelin c.1999. Design graphique / pratiques créatives. Identités éditoriales, espaces à caractères typographiques, équipe Casgrain. Studio direct, cohérent, critique. Becs fins Queb, post-stoners noise du dimanche, memes et pop culte. Feed me weird things.
Feed is a graphic design studio based in Montreal.
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TAT CHAO
Montreal via Milan and Singapore. Industrial interior, inspiration and intervention. Glass, silver, wood, metal, home, body, space. 3D-printed sparkling questions, boundless curiosity.
Tat Chao is an industrial designer based in Montreal.
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Rachel Bussin
Lightness and light, weight and weightlessness. Speculative soy wax. Jet-black aluminum. A sense of ceremony, material poetics. Object and space, lead designer. Kiff since ’19.
Rachel Bussin is an industrial designer based in Montreal.
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KOEN DE WINTER
From Antwerp to Quebec, from ceramics to plastics, De Winter for Mepal, 66 in 77. Daily omnipresence, from the table to the collections. Olive ochre red, spout, grooves, interlocking volumes, drinking, pouring, drawing. Versatility, accessibility, mission, transmission, generous knowledge, gratitude.
Koen De Winter is a retired industrial designer and university professor.
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Élyse Leclerc
The art of the table. Co-founder of Jarre (RIP). Kitchen objects, post-historic reprise. A fold of clay, molded, a service. Omnipresent pitcher reviewed and reworked.
Élyse Leclerc is a designer and ceramist based in Montréal.
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Olivier Bonnard
Olivier Bonnard is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montréal.
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