Concours commande - Âmes d’Œuvres
Graduates of the École Duperré, Laetitia Baqué and Victor Molinié founded their studio, Baqué Molinié, in 2017, following an initial collaboration on textile design. Since then, they have been exploring the possibilities of embroidery by combining it with other exceptional crafts, such as marquetry, gilding and ceramics.
Through their collaborations with fashion houses and Haute Couture houses, they are pushing the boundaries of this traditional craft and broadening its applications to design and interior decoration. Based at the Villa du Lavoir in Paris, their studio places collective creation and the dialogue between form and material at the heart of its approach.
A graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2016, Geoffrey Hillereau has developed an artistic approach at the crossroads of traditional craftsmanship and digital technologies. After working alongside Mathieu Lehanneur, Richard Texier and Louis Vuitton, he created his own aesthetic, which he describes as ‘Neo-Classical Pop’. Through a contemporary reinterpretation of heritage, he explores the links between style, ornamentation and innovation, in an approach inspired by ‘Total Art’. Following his first solo exhibition in 2021 at the Galerie Italienne, he has continued his research from his Parisian studio and is developing international collaborations.
Since meeting in 2023, Baqué Molinié and Geoffrey Hillereau have been exploring how their respective areas of expertise complement one another, combining artistic embroidery, sculpture, engineering and digital modelling. Their collaboration, which began with Moët & Chandon, has given rise to LOOP, a modular decorative frieze that explores three-dimensional embroidery, at the crossroads of craftsmanship and innovation.
Through the Âmes d’Œuvres programme, they aim to continue this joint research and develop a hybrid, architectonic approach to embroidery, by reinterpreting a heritage piece through a novel dialogue between material, form and ornamentation.
www.baquemolinie.com
www.geoffreyhillereau.com