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Elen Gavillet est une designer
Franco-Suisse
diplômée de l'école supérieure d'art et de design de Saint-Étienne en 2015.
Elen fonde son studio en 2018 après avoir travaillé
aux côtés du designer Patrick Rampelotto et dans le studio EOOS Design à Vienne, en Autriche, où elle y
concevra objets, scénographies, accessoires et mobiliers.
Aujourd'hui Elen mène ses projets personnels, en parallèle elle enseigne dans le Master Design d'objet de
l'ESADSE. En 2021 elle remporte, le deuxième prix du concours la " Boule Art Déco " des Émaux de Longwy avec son vase Cosse qui sera réalisé en édition limitée. En 2018, elle est finaliste du concours lancé par Linkcity pour le siège de la CAF Loire, avec son lustre Olumine qu'elle fera réaliser par les verreries de Bréhat, avec qui elle continue de travailler.
Par sa pratique et ses collaborations elle tente de contribuer à la préservation des savoir-faire artisanaux et ancestraux. Son dessin a pour ambition de déplacer les techniques des artisans avec qui elle travaille pour trouver de nouveaux champs d'applications et de nouveaux horizons formels.
Elen Gavillet is a Franch-Swiss designer who graduated from the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design in 2015. Elen founded her studio in 2018 after working alongside the designer Patrick Rampelotto and at the EOOS Design studio in Vienna, Austria, where she has designed objects, scenographies, accessories and furniture.
Today Elen leads her personal projects, at the same time she teaches in the Master Design of object of ESADSE. In 2021 she won second prize “La Boule Art Déco” competition from Émaux de Longwy with her vase, Cosse, which will be produced in an limitated edition. In 2018, she was a finalist of the competition launched by Linkcity for the CAF Loire headquarters, with the chandelier Olumine, she made it produced by Bréhat glassworks, with whom she continues to work.
Throught her practice and her collaborations she attempts to contributeto the preservation of artisanal and ancestral know-how. Her drawing aims to shift craftsmen’s techniques with whom she works to find new fields of application ans new formal horizons.
Aujourd'hui Elen mène ses projets personnels, en parallèle elle enseigne dans le Master Design d'objet de
l'ESADSE. En 2021 elle remporte, le deuxième prix du concours la " Boule Art Déco " des Émaux de Longwy avec son vase Cosse qui sera réalisé en édition limitée. En 2018, elle est finaliste du concours lancé par Linkcity pour le siège de la CAF Loire, avec son lustre Olumine qu'elle fera réaliser par les verreries de Bréhat, avec qui elle continue de travailler.
Par sa pratique et ses collaborations elle tente de contribuer à la préservation des savoir-faire artisanaux et ancestraux. Son dessin a pour ambition de déplacer les techniques des artisans avec qui elle travaille pour trouver de nouveaux champs d'applications et de nouveaux horizons formels.
Elen Gavillet is a Franch-Swiss designer who graduated from the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design in 2015. Elen founded her studio in 2018 after working alongside the designer Patrick Rampelotto and at the EOOS Design studio in Vienna, Austria, where she has designed objects, scenographies, accessories and furniture.
Today Elen leads her personal projects, at the same time she teaches in the Master Design of object of ESADSE. In 2021 she won second prize “La Boule Art Déco” competition from Émaux de Longwy with her vase, Cosse, which will be produced in an limitated edition. In 2018, she was a finalist of the competition launched by Linkcity for the CAF Loire headquarters, with the chandelier Olumine, she made it produced by Bréhat glassworks, with whom she continues to work.
Throught her practice and her collaborations she attempts to contributeto the preservation of artisanal and ancestral know-how. Her drawing aims to shift craftsmen’s techniques with whom she works to find new fields of application ans new formal horizons.
Independent Designer (FR & CH) / 2018 - up to now
Product Design teacher at Saint-Étienne School of Art and Design / 2021 - up to now
DISTINCTIONS & WORK
05.2024 - Design Retreat 2024 at Sutra House, led by The Design Prize Switzerland, the Zurich Silk Industry Society (ZSIG) and Pro Helvetia, Basel(CH)
03.2024 - Matchmaking programme, Logitech & Pro Helvetia, Lausanne (CH)
02.2024 - Jewelry training with MOF (Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, FR)
10.2023 - Casting jewelry training in VSVU, Bratislava (SK)
2021 - Second prize with the vase Cosse, Émaux de Longwy, Longwy (FR)
2018 - Finalist of the competition with the glass chandelier Olumnie, by Linkcity, for CAF-Loire headquarters, Saint-Étienne (CH)
2016 - 2017 Designer in EOOS Design studio, Vienna (AT)
2016 Patrick Rampelotto’s assistant in his design studio, Vienna (AT)
2013 Intern at La Nouvelle Fabrique, studio 104, Paris (FR)
2012 Intern at Steve Joyce Studio, sculpture, Spike Island, Bristol (UK)
2011 Intern at the Museum of Natural History, in the workshops, Geneva (CH)
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Exhibition Arts & Crafts aujourd’hui, Cité du design, Jema, Saint-Étienne School of Art and Design (FR)
2023 Collective exhibition Work in progress, with Noemi Niederhauser and Marie-Aurore Stiker-Metral, at Tips, with Design Days & Espaces contemporains, Genève (CH)
2015 Exhibition Parure, Biennial OFF, The essence of beauty, Saint-Étienne (FR)
2014 Exhibition Varjatus at the Estonian Academy of Art, Tallinn (EE)
2013 Exhibition with studio Unfold, Biennial IN, Empathy or the experiencing the other, Saint-Étienne (FR)
Product Design teacher at Saint-Étienne School of Art and Design / 2021 - up to now
DISTINCTIONS & WORK
05.2024 - Design Retreat 2024 at Sutra House, led by The Design Prize Switzerland, the Zurich Silk Industry Society (ZSIG) and Pro Helvetia, Basel(CH)
03.2024 - Matchmaking programme, Logitech & Pro Helvetia, Lausanne (CH)
02.2024 - Jewelry training with MOF (Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, FR)
10.2023 - Casting jewelry training in VSVU, Bratislava (SK)
2021 - Second prize with the vase Cosse, Émaux de Longwy, Longwy (FR)
2018 - Finalist of the competition with the glass chandelier Olumnie, by Linkcity, for CAF-Loire headquarters, Saint-Étienne (CH)
2016 - 2017 Designer in EOOS Design studio, Vienna (AT)
2016 Patrick Rampelotto’s assistant in his design studio, Vienna (AT)
2013 Intern at La Nouvelle Fabrique, studio 104, Paris (FR)
2012 Intern at Steve Joyce Studio, sculpture, Spike Island, Bristol (UK)
2011 Intern at the Museum of Natural History, in the workshops, Geneva (CH)
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Exhibition Arts & Crafts aujourd’hui, Cité du design, Jema, Saint-Étienne School of Art and Design (FR)
2023 Collective exhibition Work in progress, with Noemi Niederhauser and Marie-Aurore Stiker-Metral, at Tips, with Design Days & Espaces contemporains, Genève (CH)
2015 Exhibition Parure, Biennial OFF, The essence of beauty, Saint-Étienne (FR)
2014 Exhibition Varjatus at the Estonian Academy of Art, Tallinn (EE)
2013 Exhibition with studio Unfold, Biennial IN, Empathy or the experiencing the other, Saint-Étienne (FR)