Lucie de Chaumont

Skin chair

A radical steel structure (the bones) and a supple leather seat (the skin). Two seating positions suggested by an asymmetry: a single armrest and a backrest. The Skin chair embodies a social and behavioural duality through the skin it stages. 

A primitive garment, skin clothes and conceals, like a negligee cast off nonchalantly, with the opacity of a thick leather mask. Skin conceals as much as it reveals: traces, scars and glyphs visible on its surface betray a past, an intimacy, an identity. Skin is suggestive in itself, not merely as a negligee. Skin is flesh and depth; it is mutable. When skin becomes bone, it contains and bears the weight of man.

Photography by Maxime Leyvastre.

 

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  • Artist

    Lucie de Chaumont

  • Produced

    2024

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    Lucie de Chaumont

    Based in Paris, Lucie de Chaumont is an interior architect and furniture designer. She trained at ESAM Design in Paris and worked with the architecture studio of Clément Lesnoff-Rocard. Her practice spans interior architecture, furniture and object design, set design and photography. In 2024 she presented her Skin chair at THEMA, a design show held in a hôtel particulier on rue de l’Université. During Paris Design Week she showed Folie No.2 – The Dance of Æther at Galerie Boketto, an installation of suspended censer-chandeliers she describes as ritual anchors that make the invisible manifest.

    Her research focuses on sensory experiences that draw on the unconscious and on social behaviour, going beyond function to give objects meaning. She designs her pieces like bodies or individuals, each one telling of our feelings, our paradoxes and our intimacy. Works such as Skin, Peau and Le jour et la nuit treat furniture as something closer to a presence than a utility.

    Silent witnesses, inert yet alive, her objects are less furniture than inhabitants.

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