Le Jardin d’hiver par le19M et l’école Camondo

Projects by students from the Camondo school, with the19M, Jean-Baptiste Fastrez scenography,
workshop restitution

After two years of collaboration, le 19M and the école Camondo present their first collective exhibition at Toulon’s former Bishop’s Palace. Jean-Baptiste Fastrez, a designer and professor at this school, invents an immersive installation inspired by a greenhouse and a winter garden, an indoor and outdoor place, futuristic and old, envisioned as a library of ideas and curiosities. Behind the display windows, a selection of rare objects, treasures and materials illustrates the expertise of the residents at le 19M. In the back of the room, samples, models and drafts show the beauty and the giantism of this building designed by Rudy Ricciotti. This focus on the building of le 19M is the opportunity to introduce the topic of the last workshop conducted with the students at Camondo on the design of the terrace of the Gallery, in the heart of its garden. Six terrace projects are displayed in the form of images, models, and samples in a spirit of a cabinet of curiosities. Just like the terrace of the Gallery, this installation embodies the encounter between the exceptional skills of le19M and the vitality of creative youth. Its aesthetics is a tribute to le 19M’s blend of tradition and contemporaneity.

Jean-Baptiste Fastrez
Once he graduated from the ENSCI with honours in 2010, he first worked with Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec before establishing his own studio in 2012. He now collaborates with various brands and producers such as the Galerie Kreo, Moustache, the Manufacture de Sèvres, Kvadrat, EO or Tai Ping. He won several awards including the Grand Prix du Jury of Design Parade 6 in 2011, the Wallpaper Design Award in 2015 and 2018. He was awarded the Grand Prix of the city of Paris in 2019. His works were displayed as part of various thematic exhibitions, at the Centre Pompidou, at the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris and Bordeaux, at the Grand-Hornu Images (Belgium), at the Mudac (Lausanne). Besides, Jean-Baptiste Fastrez applies his designer approach to scenography projects for museums such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Bordeaux, or the villa Noailles in Hyères. In 2022, he has signed his first private flat project in Paris.

le19M
Designed to gather under the same roof 11 Maisons d’Art, the Maison ERES, and the Gallery of le 19M, a multidisciplinary place open to the general public, le19M is a unique project housed in a building just as singular. This 25,500 m2 complex, a bridge between Paris, the fashion capital and Aubervilliers, an urban territory fueled by a tremendous energy, is part of an eminently ambitious architectural and environmental approach. A testimony to the excellence of these trades of the future that constitute the Métiers d’Art, the building of le 19M, an architectural challenge, celebrates the union between head, heart, and hands.

The école Camondo
The école Camondo is attached to the institution Les Arts décoratifs, comprised of the MAD, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the Nissim de Camondo Museum, and the Ateliers du Carrousel. In Paris and Toulon, it trains interior architects and designers and awards a BAC + 5 (master’s degree) State diploma. Its five-year educational programme covers the broad spectrum of trades encompassed by these disciplines at the crossroads of arts, economy, technology, social and environment awareness. Whether in Paris or in Toulon, the école Camondo integrates its students into a large network far beyond the physical space of both sites, a constellation of academic partners, companies or institutions of expertise and ideas.