UPCYCLING PROJECT : THE STUDENTS' FINAL PROJECTS
As part of our Upcycling project, the students of the Duperré school finally reveal their work! Each of their works aimed at reinventing and/or enhancing waste materials from our Ardèche workshops. By combining them with their own materials and using their usual practices, the students have presented us with an incredible range of recycling possibilities. Reusing a material and giving it a second life is the result of a challenge brilliantly met! Check out their 12 surprising and very different projects, all of which are remarkably creative.
As part of our Upcycling project, the students of the Duperré school finally reveal their work! Each of their works aimed at reinventing and/or enhancing waste materials from our Ardèche workshops. By combining them with their own materials and using their usual practices, the students have presented us with an incredible range of recycling possibilities. Reusing a material and giving it a second life is the result of a challenge brilliantly met! Check out their 12 surprising and very different projects, all of which are remarkably creative.
LUCIE BELAÏD
Lucie focused on leather as a medium and redesigned a collection in her own way, transforming the patterns into gradations of stripes and toning down the shine. In their new skins, these same leather inserts are then displayed in a decorative setting but can also be used to make new Georgettes bracelets.
APOLLINE BERRAUD
By combining processed and unfinished brass parts with plant waste, Apolline has designed miniature greenhouses to represent the Les Georgettes workshops and evoke the "living heritage" label. Here a new world emerges, a place of wonder where the colours of the plants and the patterns of the structures are re-enchanted.
PRUNE BOUDGOURD
In order to incorporate Les Georgettes jewellery into tableware, Prune has used brass to make a food material shine and create jewellery egg cups for Coquet eggs! The interlacing of brass and spaghetti becomes a field of wheat, the jewelled egg cups become a bird's nest. Together they form a decorative object that makes for a very cheerful banquet.
ROBINSON BOURSAULT
Fascinated by chain and its manufacturing process, but also by its symbolism and multiple functions, Robinson honours it by making it the main protagonist of his project. By playing with its different forms, Robinson has transformed chain using scraps of leather and created hybrid paintings, drawings and photographs.
POPLINE FICHOT
Starting with a brass plate stamped with her pendant, Popline creates a metaphor around accounts of significant events. She has collected about thirty of them. Taken out of context, the words form a lexical field in their own right and are all inscribed on pendants, which thus become representatives of real events, engraved in the memory.
THOMAS GOMES
Thomas has accelerated the ageing process of scrap brass to make not only shades of blue, but more importantly, new and reusable raw materials. Through the oxidised blue dye and the transformation of this altered material, Thomas presents us with a poetic landscape in which renewed waste changes status and comes back to life.
CLÉMENCE JOLY
Clémence focuses on the brass plates of the Georgettes bracelets and earrings, bringing the scraps to life. Back-projected on the wall or on bodies, the jewellery elements create an immersive space where the moving patterns play with their shape, using shadow effects, and are transformed into new objects that you are free to interpret yourself...
LOLA LOUP
By using the technique of basketry which allows her to interweave the strips of leather inserts to give them shape, Lola revisits and explores offcuts in all their various guises. These leather offcuts - originally used to make Georgettes bags - are then compressed together to form a new surface, as if a new skin were being reconstituted.
THAÏS NGUYEN HUU
Thaïs took an interest in the brand's online community, where customers and their stories are showcased. By assembling leather scraps (offcuts from the brand) with Instagram images (offcuts from consumer society), she reinterprets the photos published on social networks and gives new life to the material through the creation of hollowed-out portraits of women.
AURÉLIE PIERROT
Focusing on the manufacture of chains, Aurélie wanted to reveal their essence and approach them as living materials. In his photographic collection, the chain becomes a body, presents different silhouettes and forms figures with a blurred identity, leaving room for interpretation and, above all, attracting a new look, a new attention.
JEANNE ROCHEDIEU NEBOIT
After visiting our factories in person as well as the 3D workshop, Jeanne was struck by the beauty of the Ardèche mountains. To bridge the gap between the real and the virtual, she reused the scrap leather in a virtual and immersive second life, playing all the roles on stage in a limbo-like world with landscapes similar to the Ardèche.
LAURE-ANNE TCHANA
In order to exploit their greatness, Laure-Anne transformed the leather scraps into clothes and accessories. Each cut-out induces a shape that can be modulated, playing on reversibility and combining several garments into one. By perforating leather, she provides a way to upcycle scraps and give them a second life as versatile body accessories.