Palmarès

Simon Dupety
FRANCE

UFO – Unindustrial Functional Object
The Unindustrial Functional Object series explores a mysterious tension between the natural and the industrial, the living and the technical. This hybridisation of raw resources and standard components stems from a reflection on the future of everyday objects.
At the heart of the project are oak acorns, harvested in the forest and treated as semi-finished products. These natural elements are combined with aluminium profiles and led−s, while retaining their uniqueness within functional objects. Referring to the world of science fiction, UFO questions our vision of progress: can we imagine a technical production that sacralises the living instead of excluding or crushing it?
These lights, manufactured in series but not industrialisable, subvert the codes of traditional production. They embody an alternative temporality, slow and meticulous, where design becomes a celebration of the nonstandard. In this way, UFO proposes an imaginary world where technology and culture meet, and is part of a wider personal quest for the user-friendliness of objects: wild systems.

Johan Karrebæk Thun
DANEMARK

Kelly Eng et Marie Piplard
FRANCE

Kelly Eng et Marie Piplard
FRANCE

Les bouillottes
The “Les bouillottes” series is an ode to this ancestral object, the silent witness of everyday gestures and guardian of moments of comfort. Relegated to the shadows of modern systems, it is used to provide warmth, bringing together both know-how and sustainable materials. The aim is to pay renewed attention to this domestic object, studying its uses and transcending the archetypal forms it has embodied for centuries.
The project highlights four models of warmers with distinct operating principles, each using natural materials chosen to store and release heat energy: the water bottle, the heating brick, the dry hot water bottle and the sand bottle.
Whether made from stoneware or terracotta, filled with water or sand, wrapped in textiles or filled with cherry stones or linseed, each warmer exploits a unique link between the material and its technical properties. These interactions between container and content activate thermal inertia, restoring heat or coolness. The domestic landscape is above all a natural landscape.
This project highlights the importance of thermal comfort targeted at specific areas of the body or home, while exploring other solutions tailored to individual needs. The aim is to redefine a gentle, concentrated heating system to limit the use of energy-guzzling devices.
A common or obsolete object, we are seeking to include it in unsuspected imaginary worlds, animated by the material that shapes it, metamorphosed over time, impregnated by the gestures and surfaces we encounter. The “bouillotes” become the protagonists of a visual and sensory narrative, reactivating an organic link between humans and their environment.