For the first time, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (born 1971 & 1976), considered to be among the best representatives of the dynamism and creativity of current design, unveil a private and substantial part of their day-to-day studio work: drawing.
As art director Cornel Windlin states: “This book is not meant to be either an exhaustive inventory nor a privileged selection of the designers’ work. Put together from a volume of sketch books and drawings realized between 2004 and 2012, this book follows diverse criteria: that of reproducing a large number of personal drawings out of context of the designers’ body of work; that of their chronological organization; and that of the homogenization of their reproduction into the format of the book. These choice (or non-choices) should nullify the questions of hierarchy and significance: neither emblems nor monuments, the drawings take on a meaning and a quality that is brought to them by the viewer.”
