Tony Jouanneau, Designer and textile ennobler

Tony Jouanneau is a designer, craftsman and researcher. 

Trained in product design at ESAD Orléans, he worked for seven years at the Tzuri Gueta textile studio, where he learned the ennobler's trade. He then turned his attention to eco-design and biodesign during a course at ENSCI-Les Ateliers. 

Since 2017, he has founded ATELIER SUMBIOSIS, a finishing laboratory where science and textile know-how meet. A dyeing process using micro-algae, patterns devoured by insects or bacterial printing on fabrics... his research is inspired by the virtuous principle of symbiosis to imagine an innovative collaboration between the living and soft materials. 

Selected by the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès in 2019, he joins the "Académie des Savoir-Faire Textile" program and then enters a residency at BDMMA Paris. At the same time, he lectures in higher education on the challenges of creating with the living world, notably at ENSCI-Les Ateliers, ENSAD Paris and IFM. Collaborations with craftsmen are central to ATELIER SUMBIOSIS, and for the past year he has been working with the House of Dior on the creation of large-format works for various boutiques around the world. Winner of the Villa Kujoyama in 2023, a research project on sea urchin dyes initiated in partnership with the Sorbonne is taking him to Japan for new collaborations with local craftsmen.