Gaëlle Gabillet et Stéphane Villard

Le Studio was founded in 2011 by Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard. Their partnership produces an atypical approach that ranges from curating and research to objects, installations and  interior architecture.   

They are winners of the Carte Blanche VIA 2011 with the “Objet Trou Noir” project. A research project rewarded by the VIA for the use of black material from final waste and the re-reading of a household appliance reviving the tableware and decorative arts around the notion of decluttering. “Objet Trou noir” is part of the Centre Pompidou’s permanent collection.

Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard are edited by Italian publisher Gufram, Galerie Catberro and Petite Friture.  Their pieces are regularly exhibited (Grand Hornu, MUDAC, Centre Pompidou, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, FRAC, Museum für Angewandte Kunst – Frankfurt, Biennale Design Saint-Étienne, Maison & Objet, Center for Contemporary Art Castle of Rivara – Turin, Salon du meuble de Milan).

They are responsible for the interior and design of La Commune theater, the national drama center in Aubervilliers. In 2014, they won the Paris Shop & Design prize, and in 2016, they won the redesign of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 2018, they won the City of Paris “Faire Design” award.

They are also exhibition curators. They signed the exhibition “Form follows information” at the Biennale Internationale de Saint-Etienne 2015 and the exhibition “Zones de confort” at Galerie Poirel in Nancy with Juliette Pollet, design curator at CNAP.  

In 2017, the Centre Pompidou gave them carte blanche to celebrate its 40th anniversary with a “Galerie Party” installation at the Galerie des enfants for a year as artists and curators.

In 2018, it’s Galerie des galeries’ turn to give them carte blanche around Storytelling, they imagine an installation-exhibition  “Demain, le vaisseau chimère “. 

 

Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard are currently boarders at the Villa Medicis, Académie de France in Rome until September 2019.