Shopping for, promoting, experience or recommendation: DIZAGN helps collectors and lovers of historic French post-war design.
Thibault Lannuzel: Ardour for design
Thibault Lannuzel, physician of artwork historical past, graduated from the Sorbonne in 2016 and gave his dissertation the title “Technology Helpful Kinds” based mostly on the historic and aesthetic examine of a bunch of designers on the so-called “progress interval” (1945-1973). In parallel to his research, Thibault Lannuzel labored for the public sale home Sotheby’s in 2008, earlier than collaborating with the vendor Pascal Cuisinier, first at Puces de Saint-Ouen, then at Rue de Seine, to defend historic French design. After collaborating in exhibitions world wide, Thibault Lannuzel based his personal collector-focused shopping for, promoting, brokerage and consulting enterprise following his doctorate. He additionally joins the Chamber of Specialists CEA (Compagnie d’Experience en Antiquités et Objets d’Artwork), of which he has been a member since 2017. Any longer, he divides his time between his on-line gallery DIZAGN (which suggests “design” in Breton, with respect to its origins) and the primary French public sale home Artcurial, for which he works as a marketing consultant within the Artwork Deco/Design division, his specialty. He’s thought of a real skilled within the discipline and collaborates with establishments and personal galleries by growing monographic/thematic publications on the topic.
French design from the post-war interval to the primary oil disaster
On the finish of the Second World Conflict, younger designers born within the late Nineteen Twenties labored with the most important producers of furnishings, seats and lighting, but additionally on public tasks in collaboration with architects: practice stations, museums, neighborhood facilities. Tradition, and so forth. They work alone or in pairs and have set themselves the social mission of making a design for everybody that’s accessible, useful and aesthetic. That is then the start of mass manufacturing, during which the designer imagines the article on plans earlier than the producer realizes the prototype and begins manufacturing. In the end, the arrival of design marks the separation of design and creation of the article. This period additionally noticed the emergence of plywood, aluminum, plastic and laminate methods. Even at this time, the objects are nonetheless extremely useful; they’re dwelling artwork that designers equivalent to Jean Prouvé, Pierre Guariche, Alain Richard, Olivier Mourgue and Pierre Paulin, amongst others, left behind. This long-unknown technology of designers from the Nineteen Fifties to Nineteen Eighties is now experiencing growing curiosity amongst artwork collectors.
Purchase, promote or have your French design heritage valued
DIZAGN has change into the reference website for French design collectors, going past the pure “progress interval” and specializing in the Nineteen Eighties/Nineties, for instance with the work of designers equivalent to Philippe Starck, Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Nemo. A real object hunter, Thibault Lannuzel presents on his web site his catalog of objects on the market, but additionally gives the potential for appraising the products from non-public people – particularly within the case of inheritance – and from artwork sellers who wish to worth their works. He loves unearthing uncommon items for his collector clientele: custom-made items, distinctive items or prestigious provenance. The passionate Thibault Lannuzel continues his seek for unattainable objects (on behalf of his web site DIZAGN) and is set to rediscover post-war French design. He quickly plans to share his ardour and information via educating.