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Since Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance moved to Portugal to carry out the various chapters of his long-term Made In Situ project, we had to go to Lisbon to his creative studio – which also serves as an exhibition space and artistic, musical, culinary or olfactory performances – to admire the successive achievements of the designer: Black Clay, Burnt Cork, Azulejos, Bronze & Beeswax. The presidency of the jury and therefore the residence of the designer within the villa Noailles until September 3 gives us the opportunity, through the exhibition Made in Situ, manifesto of a journey, to apprehend within the same space all the creations of Made In Situ and more particularly its latest opus: Oak cork. Faithful to the philosophy combining the practice of design, materials, terroirs and traditional local know-how, Oak cork is the first French part of Made In Situ, a local project rooted in the Var.
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The Var and its history
“A hundred houses raised cork in the region in the past, there is only one left. Two thousand people took part in the ecosystem and in the maintenance of the forests, which are today abused by the fires. In Portugal, wood can only be used when the tree is dead, and even then, for heating. Here, too, this wood is partly neglected,” confides Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, who quickly convinces himself to work on the wood of cork oaks burned during the fire of 2021 in the Massif des Maures. A very particular wood, with singular veins and whose changing colors evoke exotic essences such as teak. He decides to use this wood as it is, reassociated with its bark, a wood that comes from the trunks of dead standing oaks and a cork raised from healthy trees. There are also these cork rings, harvested in this form in the forest when the wood, on the ground, is worm-eaten and allows the bark to be freed to make these astonishing lampshades without cutting lines.
The gesture of the craftsman
“These are things that are made by nature and that we give to see as they are, with the minimum of transformation or in any case a minimum of style if not the bias to achieve all this with the help of several craftsmen from the Var: a lumberjack, a cork lifter, a carpenter, a plasterer, continues the designer, reminding us that Made in Situ is also that: a meeting of different know-how, of particular specialities. We learn that this way of associating cork was inspired by the convent of the Capuchos, a retreat of Franciscan monks dug into the rock and decorated with cork, hidden by dense vegetation in the mountain of Sintra, in Portugal that he discovered during his innumerable researches and peregrinations. And to conclude, in one breath: “This convent was built more than five centuries ago…”. Made in Situ… the territories and the long term.
Made in Situ, manifesto of a journey, until September 3, 2023, 47, Montée de Noailles, Hyères.
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The collections Oak & Cork, Barro Negro et Bronze & Beeswax of Noé Duchauffour-Lawrance gathered in the squash court of the villa Noailles.
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La collection Oak cork in cork oak wood and veneered bark.
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A lamp Oak cork and ceramics black mud.
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In the large pool room, the panels tiles under the original clock of the villa Noailles.
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From the outdoor pool deck, view of a sun lounger Burnt Cork and a panel tiles. In reflection, the hills of Hyères.
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Inside the swimming pool, with the walls covered with large linen curtains and the floor covered with cork, framed by rectangular ceramic tiles, a panel tiles and a seat Burnt Cork.
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A collection library tiles.
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Designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance at his tiles in the historic Viúva Lamego ceramic tile factory in Sintra, Portugal.
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