For the CENTQUATRE, Matali is working on the design and the stage set of the House for Children, a games and art initiation space for small children.
Also, she created and ran the "Small escapes", workshops for children were they are encouraged to invest micro-areas throughout the CENTQUATRE. Realised in collaboration with Domestic, the "Escapes paper kit" allow kids to practice at home...
BIOGRAPHY
Born July 28th 1965 in Châlons-en-Champagne (France), Matali Crasset trained as an industrial designer. In the spirit of one of her best-known objects, the roll-up guest bed Quand Jim monte à Paris (When Jim comes to Paris), she uses her own methodology, questioning the things we take for granted in our everyday life in order to break free and experiment.
In this way she develops new typologies based on principles such as multiple modularity, suitability, flexibility and network. Her work, which began to be recognised in the 1990s as a rejection of pure form, is conceived as a quest in progress, built from hypotheses rather than from principles.
She works in a variety of disciplines, from handicrafts to electronic music, from textile industry to fair trade. Her works have taken her into unexpected areas, from stage design to furniture trade, from graphic design to interior architecture.
