Inspiration is the breathing step in which air fills the lungs.
It’s also an inner movement that leads to doing and acting.
This enthusiasm, creative breath, animates the writer, the artist, the researcher…
Other are often its source. Inspiration elevates and brings us back to basics.

From 7 to 28 September, France Design Week returns to #Nantes to showcase and celebrate #design across the region…
Thank you, Maxime, for inviting me to this third edition of #FDWNANTES in Nantes!
In turn, I’m delighted to invite you to discover this dream installation, conceived, printed, laid out and cut out this summer… and just hung up with Albane & Pierre. We wanted it to be both educational and fun.
See you at Singulier store, 28 Rue Scribe in Nantes, just a stone’s throw from Place Graslin!

Take a look behind the scenes at the designs created for the lovely Basque brand ‘Arsène & les pipelettes’ for the AW2324 collection!

Pierre Foulonneau will also explain how he designed and created these unique ceramics, which were cast in Italy…

Albane, the museum guide, will show you round our museum of everyday objects…

… a vibrant and light-hearted interplay between industrial design, textile design and artists’ canvases!

See the full itinerary for #FDWNANTES.

On this Mother’s Day, I wanted to share with you these few pictures of Grain d’aile, my favourite book, which my mum gave me when I was five…

Naturally, I chose this one to present to the reading club in Year 1.
It was so beautiful and must have been a big hit… so much so that it was eventually ‘borrowed’ and never returned.
I still remember how sad I felt at the time, as the book was no longer in print in this illustrated version… It was only more than 30 years later that I finally found this book again – second-hand in the same edition, the 1977 one – and wept with joy!

So here are a few extracts from this magnificent tale written by Paul Eluard for Jacqueline Duhême, who illustrated it…