Theoreme Editions Unveils 2nd Collection.

Theoreme Editions returns after a triumphant debut collection launched in 2019. The design company, headed by David Giroire and Jérôme Bazzocchi, is proposing a new range of ten objects, the fruit of a collaboration between contemporary French designers and craftsmen from all over Europe.

Following on from Theoreme Editions’ aim to foster an experimental approach to colour and materials, the vision of each designer combines with the skill of the varied craftsmen, resulting in a collection of works that are both sculptural and poetic. The works consider the links between design, art and modernity, revisiting the relationship between surface and object, furniture and sculpture.

Adrien Messié’s Fibonacci table is a contrast of materials and textures. This piece opposes and reconciles the smooth appearance of the top in white lacquered wood against the crazed finish of the matt green ceramic base. The vase in lacquered fibreglass by designer Matteo Garcia evokes Yves Tanguy and the surrealists, but in a version 2.0 coupling 3D scanning and secular sculpting techniques.

The POOL duo are back with a new take on their show-stopping Achilles, where an armchair in technical tweed flows like soft matter over a lacquered metal cube. The pared-back modernism of the aluminium pendant lights designed by SCMP Design Office speak of the American minimalism that came from the Bauhaus.

The raw finish of the materials and the forms of both Exercice Studio’s aluminium chair and Victoria Wilmotte’s folded console made with Atelier François Pouenat, are reminiscent of the industrial era of machines, mass production and technical reproducibility. Similarly, Wendy Andreu’s free-standing mirror, looking like a human scale monolith of aluminium, provides a play of reflections thanks to slats of mirror and one-way glass through which one can secretly see without being seen.

The chain-links vase designed by Service Généraux in 3D-printed matte ceramic, as well as the coffee table from Hall House, whose glass top floats on knotted wooden ropes, seem to evoke a certain fetish for form, recalling Pier Paolo Pasolini’s masterpiece, Théorème, from which the design company takes its name.

The collection debuted in Paris this past March. For more information on the pieces, head over to theoremeeditions.com.

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Theoreme Editions’ founders—Jérôme Bazzocchi and David Giroire. Photo: Valentino Barbieri.

[Images courtesy of Theoreme Editions. Photography by Valentin Fougeray.]