Gaspard Fleury-Dugy

Swedish school of textiles & École Duperré
IG @gaspard.fleury.dugy

Gaspard Fleury-Dugy is a designer and visual artist. His practice is nourished by textile techniques and the graphic vocabulary they summon. He takes immense joy working with simple forms and colours. His output moves between object design, interior decoration, the development of textile patterns and samples for home textile editors, and a visual art practice combining painting, drawing, and textile art. He also practises trapeze and likes to see his design work as a series of soft, colourful pirouettes.

Toron
For Design Parade, Gaspard Fleury Dugy presents Toron, a collection of objects comprising a cabinet, two lamps, and a coffee table. The series explores thread and line as common denominators through an approach rooted in textile thinking. His practice draws on methodologies inherited from textile design: research through sampling, material development from yarn, and an exploration of rhythm, pattern, and colour.

For several years, knitting has been at the core of his work. By moving this craft out of the fashion world, he opens new possibilities within object and furniture design. Through this displacement, he questions both the materiality and the manufacturing processes of contemporary objects.

His research has led to the development of innovative knitted materials whose volume is generated directly during the knitting process itself. In this way, the transition from thread to volume occurs without any intermediate stage. It is within this technical leap that the uniqueness of his process resides. The objects presented at Design Parade emerge from this exploration. Each is constructed according to the twisting movement inherent to rope-making, bringing together a cotton knit structure with wood. The combination of these two elements results in a composite material capable of taking on a wide variety of forms.

Underlying this research is a desire to emancipate textiles and expand their fields of application. Textile is no longer considered merely as a covering material; it becomes a structural element in its own right, an integral component of the object itself.

WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
INNOKNIT
PRISME CNC
EMILCOTONI
JAD MAKER LAB