Following the success of the 50 Seas exhibition in 2018, Christie’s France is renewing its Carte Blanche with Mathieu Lehanneur. The internationally-renowned designer, responsible for such emblematic and symbolic objects for Paris 2024 as the Olympic flame and cauldron, previews the Ici et maintenant exhibition at the auction house from January 17 to 23.
A lover of nature, watery surfaces and reflections on the oneness of the world, Mathieu Lehanneur unveils his latest exhibition, presented at the Paris headquarters of auction house Christie’s.
Entitled Ici et Maintenant, the exhibition allows the French designer, interviewed in LUXUS MAGAZINE N°9 (Autumn-Winter 2024-25), to revisit his personal leitmotivs, from the importance of nature to that of present time (Carpe Diem) and transmission.
The exhibition features I am, a project that revisits the chair, an object as banal as it is utilitarian, but from the angle of singularity.
Modern monogram
What if tomorrow’s distinction went beyond streetwear to the modern refuge of the home?
After having modeled the demographics of each country in 3D in his work State of The World and inventoried the many shades of blue immensity, with 50 Seas, the designer is once again interested in the principle of uniqueness.
The desire to stand out from the crowd and think outside the box has never been stronger among today’s contemporaries. And it’s with an awareness of the importance of individual identity that Mathieu Lehanneur has imagined a series of exclusive chairs that go beyond their purely utilitarian and aesthetic purpose.
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Featured Photo: Mathieu Lehanneur portrait ©Leandro Viana/Lehanneur Studio and I am chair ©Felipe Ribon/Lehanneur Studio
