Meeting - Thursday, October 13 - 6:30 p.m. - with Steven Leprizé and Alexandre Echasseriau

Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 6:30 p.m., JAD invites you to discover the work of Steven Leprizé and Alexandre Echasseriau.

Recognized by their peers and awarded prestigious prizes, Steven Leprizé and Alexandre Echasseriau are both graduates of the École Boulle, passionate researchers and insatiable explorers of materials. The former counts among his credentials the Bettencourt Schueller prize for the intelligence of the hand awarded in the "Exceptional Talents" category in 2017. The second, winner of the Audit Talent Award in 2015, is certainly not to be outdone!

Steven Leprizé has made wood his preferred material, his field of research and his food for thought. When he founded Arca (Atelier de Recherche et de Création en Ameublement), it was already driven by a crazy project, the desire to develop, with his then sidekick, an inflatable wood, later known as Airwood. Other wood innovations such as Woowood and Bois Larmé followed. As for fields of application, they are infinite. From furniture and lighting to motorcycles and fashion accessories, there's no stopping innovation at ARCA!

AlthoughAlexandre Echasseriau has a degree in ornamental turning and proven craftsmanship skills, he doesn't consider himself a craftsman. He has a degree in industrial design from the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, but it's no coincidence that he has named his workshop "Crafter Studio". Whether he's working with the CNRS to develop a poetic case dedicated to understanding the properties of liquid interfaces, developing a high-fidelity marble speaker with marble-maker Jeremy Codron or a single-engine aircraft for French aircraft manufacturer Daher, he makes a point of working on the link between materials, know-how and creation. 

So it's hardly surprising that these two enthusiasts have come together to take up a challenge: mastering and giving meaning to the plasma projection of metal microparticles on wood. This joint development of plasma projection objects is the result of the LABO#1 grant initiated by the association Les Lauréats du Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'intelligence de la main, and the eponymous Foundation.

On October 13, 2022, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., come and discover their unique backgrounds and ambitious research projects!