L’Ecole Bleue design graduates seen in Paris

Just around the corner in my local Paris neighbourhood I came across an exhibition by L’Ecole Bleue, a private design college taking part in the city-wide D Days. Now I don’t know much about design schools in France, never having taught there, but I’d always wanted to look inside this building, a former church, so in I went.

Could you have resisted going through these open doors? And look at the original stained glass window in the upstairs room.

So, here is some of the work I saw.  Modular shelving by Adrien Guichet in the same upstairs space, just in front of the bathroom.

Inserted leg detail in a table by Antoine Balso-Jean. Remember these are students so the technical side needs more attention.

Another insertion table idea from Hugo Drubay, this time with the kind of steel poles you see in reinforced concrete passing through the plywood.

This stand or sellette by Raffaele Luquin & Louise Naegelen is a piece whose name has history. The sellette used to be a type of chair sat on by the accused in a trial. The practice ended before the French revolution but the expression  “être sur la sellette” remains, meaning being exposed to criticism or to be in the hot seat. Not that this is for sitting on.

I’d suggest contacting the college for details to find out more as none of the students had websites, only emails.