2093 - 2093 Lacquered Armchair

Born in 1993, Garance Vallée is a French multidisciplinary designer, artist, and architect based in Paris. Her practice spans furniture, sculpture, installation, painting, and scenography. She works across these disciplines without hierarchy, always returning to the same question: how does a body inhabit space, and how can an object resist reduction to pure function?

Trained in architecture, Vallée builds her pieces with artisans, stonemasons and metalworkers, whose traces remain visible in the finished object. Natural pigments, raw concrete, warm-toned plaster, wood, and metal form a material vocabulary that is organic without being decorative, shaped by texture and physical presence. The studio combines hand sketching and scale models with hands-on production, making craftsmanship visible rather than polished away.

Her installations and sculptural furniture have been commissioned by Perrier-Jouët, for the Planted Air installation at Design Miami in 2022, and by Nike, Adidas, and New Balance for flagship spaces in Paris. Scenography for Le Théâtre du Châtelet followed in 2023, as did Grand by Garance, a limited-edition rug collection produced with Nordic Knots that extends the same tactile sensibility into the domestic interior.

Garance Vallée is represented by Almine Rech in Paris and Carvalho Park in New York. Her 2023 solo exhibition Tous ces objets qui n'en sont pas at Almine Rech gathered works that question the boundary between object and gesture. Her catalog at Monde Singulier presents collectible design pieces from a practice where art and functional form are never fully separated.

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