Product: Rapport

Christophe de la Fontaine

Christophe de la Fontaine is the co-founder and owner of Dante – Goods and Bads, GmbH, a German brand of furniture and home accessories with an international reputation, alongside his partner, contemporary artist Aylin Langreuter.

He began his training with a sculptor diploma at LTAM in Luxembourg, and completed his studies with a degree in industrial design, taught by Richard Sapper, at Abk-Stuttgart. After a stint at the product design research studio Thus – a product design consultancy – and Piero Lissoni Associati in Milan, he led the design department at Patricia Urquiola’s studio until 2010.

He has worked independently as a product designer since then, receiving numerous international awards, including the Red Dot Award, the Good Design Award, and the iF GOLD DESIGN AWARD. He was also named one of the top 100 designers in the world by Wallpaper* magazine in 2015. Since 2018, he has been a professor of industrial design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.

Designer: Christophe de la Fontaine

RAPPORT

The starting point for this project is a reflection on the principle of the relationship, the technique used to repeat a pattern in order to create a visual effect of uniformity by using individual sections, in this case strips of paper. Instead of using the relationship to confer a homogenous effect, the challenge for the designer is how to identify potential individual expressions with a continuous print on a roll of paper. The final result is produced by a rhythm which changes according to the height of the space where the wallpaper will be hung.
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