Antoine Phelouzat

Antoine Phelouzat lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the University for the Creative Arts in England and he obtained a Bachelors of Arts in Interior Architecture in 1997 and a Master of Arts in product design in 2001.

In 1998, he joins The Londoner studio Brinkworth to work with Tom Dixon and Michael Young and he integrates the Noah Duchaufour-Lawrence agency. He eventually creates his own design studio in 2005.

In 2007 he joined forces with Indian industrial giant Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing, to launch a series of office and domestic furniture. His office chair Ace was launched in 2010 at Neocon / Chicago.

In addition to his designs, Antoine Phelouzat taught design at the Higher Institute of Applied Art in Paris from 2007 to 2010, he also runs workshops on design, innovation and sustainable development. His work has been selected four times by the VIA.

"I see myself as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the user. The contact with the materials and those who work it is essential, beyond tradition, it’s the mutation of knowledge that interests me.”