Miles Le Gras

Grands boulevards

The collection explores the use of iconic materials from Parisian architecture. Through pieces of furniture, it highlights the heritage knowledge and skills that are zinc roofing and stone cutting.

Initiated to the tools and assembly techniques used to shape these materials, I recreate a dialogue between two timeless surfaces scattered throughout the city’s architectural landscape. The objects produced, by combining the rigidity of stone and the malleability of zinc, revisit the original duality of these materials, and strongly echo their urban use.

Specific and ancestral skills are therefore highlighted in the change of context: from architecture to furniture, they adopt a contemporary vocabulary, which raises awareness of their history among a new audience.