Guillaume Garnier and Florent Linker are two French creators based in Paris. They aim at giving a contemporary design to rare materials and savoir-faire. All pieces are handmade unique or limited editions by French master craftsmen. As designers, they get their inspiration from decorative arts and sculpture, to create pure-shaped forms revealing their materiality. With their background in interior design, they conceive functional objects that meet contemporary interiors of enlightened collectors who seek art and design collectibles with a soul.They have created two singular collections for Spazio Nobile in Brussels, one is the Parisis lamps in plaster and alabaster and, another one is the molten glass Diatomée Sculpted Vases which appear like diatoms that are single-celled algae that live in houses made of glass. Inspired by these light-absorbing molecules which are the only organism on the planet with cell walls composed of transparent, opaline silica, they are ornamented by intricate and striking patterns of silica. On earth, diatoms are bringing us up to 50% of our oxygen and also feed the oceans, lakes and rivers. Garnier & Linker have experimented this fascinating lost-wax casting technique mastered by French glass maker Olivier Fonderflick with 12 crystal colors: light blue, light pink, light green, clear transparent, violine grey, purple, lime, citrin, electric blue, dark grey, nearly black and cognac/ amber. Since 2020, Spazio Nobile has initiated artistic collaborations and projects with floral artists around Diatomée such as Ikebana master Jozef Prelis Seihō and Paris-based creator Arturo Arita, respectively on the exhibitions Ikebana at Collectible and Call to the Wild at Maison Louis Carré (arch Alvar Aalto) in Summer 2020.
Garnier & Linker, Parisis Lamp, 2018, Translucent Table Lamp for Spazio Nobile plaster & alabaster, 40 x 15 x 15 cm, 53,2 x 17 x 14 cm, edition of 20 pieces
Spazio Nobile represents Garnier & Linker in Belgium. The gallery pieces are also two limited editions : The Sculpted Vase, 2018, ed. 20, in molten glass and Parisis Lamps, 2018, ed. 20, in alabaster and plaster.
Spazio Nobile presented “Ikebana” at Collectible Design Fair, at Vanderborght Building, rue de l’Écuyer, 50, 1000 Brussels, Belgium,
5-8 March 2020. All photos by Yen-An Chen.
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Spazio Nobile takes part into the 1st edition of Unique Design Shanghai at Tank, West Bund, Shanghai, which will happen from 7 until 10 November at Tank, West Bund, Shanghai.
Featured artists and designers represented by the gallery: Garnier &
New Diatomée Vases by Garnier & Linker. Photo Florent Linker
Spazio Nobile is pleased to invite you to the opening of Lake Como Design Fair, which happens on Thursday 19 September at Teotro del Broletto (focus architecture) and Sale del Ridotto,
SPAZIO NOBILE IS ON COLLECTIBLE FAIR, VANDERBORGHT BUILDING, BRUSSELS
From 14 until 17 March, on the 1st floor, booth 1-11: “Blooming Blossom”
Preview: 3-6pm and opening: 6-10pm on 13 March (by invitation only)
Spazio Nobile invites you to iide with Gert Voorjans and J.Phine from 17 until 25 November
Marcin Rusak’s Flora Table 190 will be exhibited from 17 until 25 November at The International Interior Design Exhibition(IIDE),
Spazio Nobile is exhibiting The Random Collection at Biennale Interieur, Hall 1, L40, as part of the five Landmarks designed by Studio Verter. Scenography by Garnier & Linker
The fair is opened from 18 to 22 October,
2018 – 2020
Sculpture or Vase
Lost-wax Molten Glass
Dimensions: approx. 28 x 10 x 10cm
ed. of 20 + 2A.P. in each color
Unique piece – random collection for Spazio Nobile
Spazio Nobile exhibits The Random Collection from 19 until 22 April at Art Brussels Tour & Taxis, booth D 30 (Art Brussels Editions). Preview on Thursday 19 April, 11 am –