Gaspard Fleury-Dugy

Toron
For Design Parade, I am presenting a collection of objects entitled Toron. Composed of a chest of drawers, three vases, a table lamp, and a set of tapestries, the thread and the line serve as common denominators throughout, and the approach is rooted in textile thinking: research through sampling, development of materials from thread, working with rhythm, pattern, and colour.
For several years, the craft of knitting has been at the heart of my practice. Displacing this craft beyond its traditional field of application ; fashion ; allows me to open up new imaginaries within the domain of object and furniture design, whilst questioning the materiality and modes of fabrication of our contemporary objects.
This research has led me to develop original knitted materials whose volume is directly introduced during the knitting stage itself. I move from thread to volume without any intermediate step. It is in this leap, in this technical pirouette, that the singularity of my process resides. From this dance emerged the objects that will be exhibited at Design Parade. These are constructed according to the twisting movement inherent to the making of ropes, bringing together a cotton knit and wooden or metal rods. From the assembly of these two components results a composite material capable of taking multiple forms.
Behind this research lies the desire to emancipate textile and expand its fields of application. In this way, textile becomes more than a simple covering material ; it becomes structure in itself, and therefore an integral part of a whole.
Portrait: attached.