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Nicolas Le Moigne

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Nicolas Le Moigne

'Objets en Eternit'

Product and Industrial Design

Jury report

Experiments with Fiber-Cement Board
The 'Ob­jets en Eter­nit' pro­ject is char­ac­terised by an in­tense re­search process and was de­vel­oped in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with 'Eter­nit', a long-es­tab­lished Swiss com­pany. This un­ob­tru­sive, grey ma­te­r­ial is known pri­mar­ily for its use in flower boxes and cor­ru­gated roof sheets. As the brand name sug­gests what marks it out is its dura­bil­ity. Sturdy and weath­er­proof, fiber-ce­ment board is well suited to out­door use. Those char­ac­ter­is­tics were ex­ploited as far back as 1954 by Willy Guhl for his beach chair, the de­sign clas­sic that gave him in­ter­na­tional recog­ni­tion. Nico­las LeMoigne has now ex­plored what de­sign pos­si­bil­i­ties are of­fered if strips of the pressed mats are shaped around a mould.
Over a pro­tracted process of ex­per­i­men­ta­tion the first pro­to­types were de­vel­oped, which led to two ob­jects: an 'ECAL Hocker' chair and an 'ECAL Tisch' side table, where the func­tions aren't fixed and both can be used ei­ther as a seat or table sur­face.
The sim­plic­ity of the ob­jects and the for­mal lan­guage are ef­fec­tive and carry the tra­di­tion of fiber-ce­ment fur­ni­ture into the pre­sent. Suc­cess wasn't long com­ing. Both ob­jects have gone into mass pro­duc­tion at 'Eter­nit', are being com­mer­cialised and have been seen at sev­eral ex­hi­bi­tions.
Nico­las Le Moigne started de­sign­ing ob­jects that brought him his first taste of suc­cess dur­ing his stud­ies at ECAL, such as his colour­ful 'Verso Di­verso' pour­ing de­vice that can be screwed onto PET bot­tles to make pour­ing or wa­ter­ing flow­ers eas­ier. The de­sign ob­ject pro­duced for the Ital­ian com­pany 'Vicev­ersa' has been sold more than 250,000 times al­ready.
Au­re­lia Müller

Biography

Nicolas Le Moigne
Born in
1979
Education
Product Designer

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www.nicolaslemoigne.ch

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2012

2015

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