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Developing the various elements of Diamonds 1
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Matali Crasset selecting the glass for Diamonds 1
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Reworking the sketches of Diamonds 2
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Modeling Diamonds 2
Established and fashionable French designer Matali Crasset About
After graduating from École National Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris in 1991, Matali Crasset worked with the designer Denis Santachiara in Milan and with Philippe Starck in Paris. In 1997 she received the Grand Prix for design from the city of Paris and opened her own design studio in 1998, focusing her attention on domestic rituals and the creation of objects and furniture for Artemide, Authentics, Cristal Saint Louis, DIM, Domodinamica, Domeau&Peres, Dornbracht, Edra, Lexon, Moeve, Orangina, s.m.a.k. and Thomson.
Crasset has participated in and created the designs for many exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition Soundscapes at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York and as a selector for 25/25 – Celebrating 25 Years of Design at the Design Museum in London.
In 2001, Matali completed her first residential project, La Maison du Lac. In 2003, she completed her design of the award winning HI Hotel in Nice and a pigeon house at Caudry followed by L’annexe du BHV, a department store in Thiais, France.
More recent projects include creating the identity, website, exterior and interior design for ‘SM’s’ (the Stedelijk Museum in s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands); Végétable, a restaurant for Alain Passard at Printemps de la Maison; Lieu commun, a Paris retail boutique with F communications, Veja and Misericordia; and Tout’ouvert, a pet grooming paradise in Nice.
Crasset is a regular visiting lecturer at design schools in France (Paris, Bordeaux and Reims) and abroad (in Denmark, Milan, Lausanne and Amsterdam). Many of her creations are in private collections and international museums including Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Matali shared her constructed and deconstructed world with Meta as well as her passion for vibrant colours. Her maturity pared with Meta's timeless philosophy gave birth to already celebrated design classics such as Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend 1, setting "the lights on the passion that nurtures the soul of each object".