Etienne Marc French, b. 1995

Overview
Etienne Marc is a French designer-craftsman born in Amiens. He studied product design in Reims and Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, where he developed a hands-on practice and a deep interest in materials and their mediated meanings, using design as a tool to foster enjoyment through symbolism. Etienne Marc produces objects that bring trickery, spectacle, and humour. His use of materials borrowed from traditional
art, combined with those referencing the physical reality of our time, plays with our expectations and challenges traditional meanings and values, aiming to question or even recontextualise the notion of the replica.
Works
  • Etienne Marc, Meant for Pearls, Kėdė / chair
    Etienne Marc
    Meant for Pearls, Kėdė / chair
    75 x 48 x 70 cm
  • Etienne Marc, Yesterday Did Not Die, Kavos staliukas / coffee table
    Etienne Marc
    Yesterday Did Not Die, Kavos staliukas / coffee table
    75 × 130 × 190 cm
  • Etienne Marc, Floor lamp / Grindų šviestuvas, 2023
    Etienne Marc
    Floor lamp / Grindų šviestuvas, 2023
    60 x 60 x 210 cm
  • Etienne Marc, Chandelier / Šviestuvas, 2023
    Etienne Marc
    Chandelier / Šviestuvas, 2023
    80 x 160 x 90 cm
  • Etienne Marc, Floor lamp / Grindų šviestuvas, 2023
    Etienne Marc
    Floor lamp / Grindų šviestuvas, 2023
    60 x 60 x 210 cm
  • Etienne Marc, Vase / Vaza, 2020
    Etienne Marc
    Vase / Vaza, 2020
    54 x 25 x 25 cm
  • Etienne Marc, Mirror - Table / Veidrodis - Stalas, 2023
    Etienne Marc
    Mirror - Table / Veidrodis - Stalas, 2023
    100 x 160 x 35 cm
  • Etienne Marc, Strelitzia, vieno stiebo toršeras / single stem floor lamp
    Etienne Marc
    Strelitzia, vieno stiebo toršeras / single stem floor lamp
    167 x 75 x 30 cm
    Sold
  • Etienne Marc, Vakarykštė diena nemirė / Yesterday Did Not Die, Šviestuvas / lamp
    Etienne Marc
    Vakarykštė diena nemirė / Yesterday Did Not Die, Šviestuvas / lamp
    120 x 120 x 120 cm
    Sold
  • Etienne Marc, For Willkomm, , Šoninis staliukas / side table
    Etienne Marc
    For Willkomm, , Šoninis staliukas / side table
    85 x 57 x 57 cm
    Sold
Biography

Born 1995 in France

Lives and works in Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

EDUCATION

2017 - 2019

MA Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven

2014 - 2017

BA Design d’Objet at ESAD Reims

EXHIBITIONS

2020

Limbo, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.

Pantheon Phantasma, exhibition during IMM/Passagen, Cologne, Germany

2019

Alert Objects, Gallery VARTAI, Vilnius, Lithuania

Graduation Show 19, Dutch Design Week, Campinaterrein Kanaaldijk-Zuid, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

La Villette Makerz, Festival 100%, Folie L5, 211 Avenue Jean Jaurès, Paris, France

2018

Summer edition of Annex at M+B, curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan, 612 North Almont Drive, Los Angeles, California

2017

DDay's, Bernard Chauveau édition, Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, France

 

TUTORING

2019

Three-weeks workshop about ceramic, aluminium casting, glassblowing with Kostas Lambridis DoMake Workshop at Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

 

WRITING

2019

On the logic of taste, Historical Promiscuities and Restyling, Perspectives after C

Exhibitions
Bibliography
Art Fairs
Video
Video
Enquire

Send me more information on Etienne Marc

Please fill in the fields marked with an asterisk
Receive newsletters *