Julie Richoz

– Casa Wabi 2017

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Community Project

Proyecto de diseño en colaboración con la embajada de Suiza – Taller de carpintería, Santa Catarina Mechoacán
Fundación Casa Wabi and the Ministry of Culture of the Swiss Government through their embassy in Mexico worked together to develop a cultural and technical exchange between Swiss industrial designers and artisans of the Oaxaca Coast.
In this residence, Swiss designers Julie Richoz and Nicolas Le Moigne collaborated with palm artisans from the town of Santa Catarina Mechoacán, Oaxaca, to jointly create 7 utilitarian pieces (4 lamps and three space dividers).The pieces resulting from this meeting are exhibited in Mexico City at Fundación Casa Wabi – Santa María, within the Swiss Design Mexico 2017 program of Design Week Mexico. These pieces will also travel to be presented in samples and international design fairs.

Log-Piece

Space divider (2017) Separadores de espacios elaborado con palma tejida y metal. Resultado del proyecto de diseño suizo. 147 x 30 x 140 cm

Space divider (2017)
Separadores de espacios elaborado con palma tejida y metal. Resultado del proyecto de diseño suizo.
147 x 30 x 140 cm

Switzerland

Lives and works in Paris

Julie Richoz (1990) is a Swiss designer working in Paris. After graduating from ECAL, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, she started working for Pierre Charpin as a project assistant.
In 2012 she set up her design studio in Paris where she enjoys with curiosity and sensibility to develop her own language through objects.
Richoz has won the “Grand Prix” of the Design Parade 2012 at the Villa Noailles. She was a designer-in-residency at Sèvres, Cite de la céramique, as well as at CIRVA, international research center on arts and glass, Marseille where she was given the chance to explore the materials and the savoir-faire behind them.
Besides her gallery work she collaborates with companies such as Alessi, Artecnica, Louis Poulsen and more recently Louis Vuitton. In 2015, she received a Swiss Design Award, which is the Switzerland’s leading national design competition organized annually by the FOC (Federal Office of Culture) since 1918.
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August – September 2017