Enriching its exhibition programme, each year COLLECTIBLE devises a diverse programme of talks addressing themes around contemporary collectible design, and invites leading figures from various backgrounds to gather together and discuss specific subjects.
MASTERCLASS
Thursday 9 March 2023 at 16:00
Enfant terrible of the Belgian interior design landscape, Lionel Jadot, founder of the Zaventem Ateliers, will share his experience in involving designers and craftsmen in his public projects of hotels and restaurants, taking the future Mix projects, the Jam hotel Lisbonne and the Food Society in Lyon and Paris as case-studies.
With: Lionel Jadot (architect and designer).
Free and without reservation.
TALK (IN FRENCH)
Friday 10 March 2023 at 17:00
Created in 1999, the Liliane Bettencourt Prize pour l’Intelligence de la Main® is the leading award for French crafts, enabling creativity and innovation of talented designers and craftsmen. The Bettencourt Schueller Foundation is the founding and main sponsor of the Les Lauréats de l’Intelligence de la Main® association, a unique community bringing together 120 outstanding talents, all winners of the Liliane Bettencourt Prize pour l’Intelligence de la Main®.
In the continuity of the support provided by the Foundation, the association’s mission is to contribute to the future of contemporary creation and crafts by introducing experimental research programs, encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations and creating bridges with new markets.
Join us for an exciting conversation with Marc Aurel (designer and president of Les Lauréats de l’Intelligence de la Main® association), Pascale Riberolles (visual artist and secretary of Les Lauréats de l’Intelligence de la Main® association) and the award winners Fanny Boucher (photogravure worker), Aurélie Lanoisélée (embroiderer and textile artist), Dimitry Hlinka (designer) and Nicolas Pinon (lacquerer), who will speak about the award and the association’s innovative methods of experimentation, turning exceptional savoir-faire and collective intelligence into a source of innovation, a unique laboratory of the future of crafts.
With: Hedwige Gronier (director of cultural sponsorship of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation), Marc Aurel (designer and president of Les Lauréats de l’Intelligence de la Main® association), Pascale Riberolles (visual artist and secretary of Les Lauréats de l’Intelligence de la Main® association) and the award winners Fanny Boucher (photogravure worker), Aurélie Lanoisélée (embroiderer and textile artist), Dimitry Hlinka (designer) and Nicolas Pinon (lacquerer).
Moderated by: Giovanna Massoni (curator).
TALK
Friday 10 March 2023 at 18:00
Disciplines have never been as merged as today. Parisian interior and design rising star Sophie Dries, AD x Land Rover Awards 2022, and Belgian wonderkind Pieterjan will share their experience of combining talents as interior architects, designers and private collectors and how one nourishes the other.
With: Sophie Dries (designer, interior architect, collector)and Pieterjan (designer, interior designer, collector).
Moderated by: Maarten Statius Muller (co-founder Design Art Night).
Free and without reservation.
TALK
Saturday 11 March 2023 at 15:00
Starting a contemporary collectible design collection can be daunting when you do not know how and where to start. Collectors Berry Dijkstra (Valencia) and Adrien de Furia (Paris) are taking us to their journey in collecting design, where they started, what has changed in the landscape and how they wish the scene will evolve.
With: Berry Dijkstra (collector) and Adrien de Furia (collector).
Moderated by: Dieter Van Den Storm (Creative director MAD Brussels).
Free and without reservation.
TALK
Sunday 12 March 2023 at 15:00
Design history books are predominantly showcasing white cis male, and while female designers have created amazing works, they remain a side story next to the pioneering heroic figures of the male heterosexual designers. Meet designers Anna Aagard Jensen, Julius Vaernes Iversen and Noam Youngrak Son who by their practice are challenging those cannons.
With: Anna Aagard Jensen (Designer, Denmark), Julius Vaernes Iversen (Gallerist, Denmark) and Noam Youngrak Son (Communication designer practicing queer publishing).
Moderated by: Liv Vaisberg (co-founder COLLECTIBLE).
Free and without reservation.
