MOBILIER NATIONAL

PROJECT 1 1 : ORRIA
“Modern since the beginning of time,” France’s state-owned Mobilier national (‘national furnishings’) has always presided at the heart of contemporary creation. Characterizing all that is French elegance, the Orria chair, designed by Patrick Jouin and manufactured by Alki, is of double significance. Firstly, it embodies Mobilier national’s desire to be represented not only in the major sites of the French Republic, but wherever its high-quality creations might be promoted. What’s more, Orria bears the mark of an exceptional partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), renewing its mission of supporting manufacture thanks to the outstanding skills of the Atelier de Recherche et de Création (ARC), which places itself at the interface between project development, craftsmanship, and production.

PROJECT 2: EIDOS XXI
This set, commissioned by Mobilier national and created at the Research and creation workshop of Mobilier national, consisting of a bookcase, a desk, a desk lamp, a floor lamp, and a wall lamp, YMER &MALTA and Benjamin Graindorge started from the principles of the theory of forms and Eidos which, in Plato, is understood according to a double assertion, relating to both the form and the concept. What is a desk? Of what elements is it composed? How does it receive its user in a tangible, intelligible, and sensitive way? From the study of appearances to that of ideas, the duo set out to activate the different possibilities of the material. Inspired, as in many of their projects, by the diversity of landscapes, they have chosen to conceive this set as an interior landscape, a landscape in movement in the enclosed space of the office, a furniture set with organic lines. Each piece responds to the other through a clever play of scale, proportions, techniques, materials, and colors.

As a supporter of fine crafts and creation since the 17th century, Mobilier national’s mission is to ensure the conservation and restoration of its unique collections, to perpetuate and pass down exceptional craftsmanship. As an essential heritage site, the institution is also a major actor in contemporary creation and the promotion of French decorative arts.
Mobilier national owns a collection of tens of thousands of furniture pieces and objects meant to furnish and decorate public buildings in France and abroad. Three hundred fine craft professionals are working for Mobilier National, in Paris and throughout France.