Lucile Soufflet

For over a decade, Belgian designer Lucile Soufflet has been inspired by the individual, a sense of fun, and a rational perspective play. Dialogue, reflection, and experiments are at the heart of the Belgian designer’s artistic process. Teacher at the La Cambre Arts Visuels in Brussels and a consultant for a number of architectural offices such as Bas Smets, Spazio Nobile Gallery has recently commissioned her to design a piece of bespoke outdoor furniture for the gallery: a metal circular bench has now taken place in the back of the garden, in dialogue with other pieces by Kaspar Hamacher, Fabian von Spreckelsen…, and inaugurating the outdoor Plein Air collection of the gallery. As she says: “ I appreciate many perspectives of urban space, both social and spatial. However, the relational aspect is particularly interesting to me: the concept of the community and the individual within it, the relationship to the others, the question of private and public space, the concept of intimacy, meeting, sharing. I also have real pleasure in installing an object outside, which fits into the built, the plants, the space, and the length of time. The idea that this object will sustain a longer period of time in this context really excites me. By working in dialogue with the existing 1920s table and bench, this Circular Bench completes the curve of the stone furniture, creating a circle that is both friendly and secret, whose light colour illuminates this forgotten part of the garden. ” It opens to an infinity of options both in terms of colors and finishing.

Lucile Soufflet: Intimacy, Meeting and Sharing

L’Usine Extraordinaire: TF Urban /Poujoulat Group at Grand Palais, Paris

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