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Profile: Philippe Malouin
The simplicity of Philippe Malouin’s work is misleading.
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What really excites the London-based furniture designer is a tricky brief and the experimentation that eventually reveals a new way of doing things, whether he’s making lampshades from industrial shrinkwrap or bowls from rolls of cash register paper.
Designers are practical people.
They are problem solvers. But sometimes this trait has an unexpected, paradoxical outcome: it causes some designers to gravitate towards the impractical, the difficult, the experimental and untried. They want more problems to solve, so they go out of their way to find them.
Philippe Malouin is one of those designers.
When I first met him, during the Portes Ouvertes design festival in Montreal in 2010, he was using industrial shrinkwrap – generally used to protect boats in winter – to make lampshades.
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This wasn’t easy. The material was wrapped over a metal framework, then shrunk with a heat torch. But i