PARIS.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery | Paris presents Ocean Memories, an exhibition by designer Mathieu Lehanneur, from March 29th to June 22nd. In the continuity of his Liquid Marble series, Mathieu Lehanneur brings us a surrealistic and materialized vision of an ocen frozen in its movement. As a three-dimensional still picture, Ocean Memories works to capture the complex movements of waves and currents.

Designed digitally and made from blocks of white and grey marble or polished bronze, these pieces make it impossible to mistake the relief of the water. The environment is reflected and the light is distorted. As impossible impressions, real parts of oceans seem to have been extracted, intact, before being fixed in matter.

Through this new collection, Mathieu Lehanneur plays a permanent balance between geometric and organic. Each of the works reveals this fluid and progressive transition between the two states of matter.

“The transition from solid to liquid is a magic of physics. A moment of tilting from static to movement, a passage from the inert to the living,” Mathieu Lehanneur.

Ocean Memories tables, benches or stools seem to contain a concentrate of energy, movement and strength. At the same time furniture and sculptures, these fragments of oceans are a potential life fixed forever in stone and bronze.

At the forefront of the international design scene, Mathieu Lehanneur is one of the few designers of his generation with a genuine multi-disciplinary approach to creativity: his projects stretch the realms of product design and objects to architecture, craft, and technology. Lehanneur thrives on creating spectacular projects that are intended to enchant and to encourage wellbeing. His work defies traditional descriptions of design, science, and art.

Ranked among the “100 World top designers and influencers” by Wallpaper and Surface magazines, Mathieu Lehanneur is described as the “champion of intellectual agility in the field of contemporary design” by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and design at MoMA-NY.

Mathieu Lehanneur has earned numerous awards including the Grand Prix for creativity awarded by the City of Paris and the Best Invention Award by the US magazine Popular Science for Andrea, a house plant air filtration system, created in partnership with Harvard University and based on studies developed by NASA.

Bureau Mathieu Lehanneur’s collaborates with several prestigious brands including Nike, Veuve Clicquot, Audemars Piguet, Kenzo, Poltrona Frau, Pullman Hotels, Cartier, Schneider Electric, JCDecaux, Becton Dickinson and Sony. He also works on interior design projects like the redesigned of the Café Mollien at the Louvre Museum or the choir of St Hilaire Chruch in Melle (France).

In 2009, Lehanneur was invited to present his approach to design at the TED Global conference. A monograph about his work was published by Gestalten editions in 2012.
Mathieu Lehanneur’s works can be found among some of the most renowned public and private collections including the MoMA-NY and SFMoMA, the Pompidou Centre and the Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris.