Exposition à la Galerie Valérie Guerin
Du 27 mai au 25
septembre 2021, sur le thème de La réconciliation
de l’homme avec la nature, la première exposition de ce cycle réunira les
designers Marie-Sarah Adenis, Germain Bourré, Laurent Godart, Jean - Sébastien
Lagrange, Sophie Larger, Maximum, Raphaël Ménard, Philippe Rahm, Brook Sigal,
Samuel Tomatis, Lucile Viaud.
Galerie Valérie Guérin, 30 &32 rue de Bourgogne, 75007
ZEF retenu par FAIRE
La table ZEF est l’un des 25 projets lauréats du premier accélérateur de projets urbains et architecturaux innovants. Plus d’infos ici.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: WHEN A LITTLE CAN GO A LONG WAY
The ZEF initiative quoted in this brilliant article by Ben Skuse.
Future furniture
It is one thing to redesign appliances that waste energy, it is quite another to apply the same principles using furniture. Raphaël Ménard and Jean-Sébastien Lagrange are doing just that with their ZEF Table. […] The ZEF Table is the first design to come out of the ZEF Program, an initiative that aims to tackle energy efficiency via innovative furniture design.
“On the scale of an entire building, energy efficiency is capital intensive and requires a lot of time,” says Ménard. “With furniture the effect is not as big, but a tiny investment can yield huge benefits.”
What each of these relatively simple designs shows is that changing how we carry out humdrum activities can have as big an impact on our environment as grand, publicly funded projects. As Ménard suggests, when it comes to smart design, there are few ‘no-go’ areas.
“We’re still dreaming about making other furniture… maybe even a bath – when you take a bath or shower there’s huge heat loss, which is absolutely criminal not to recycle”.