Hasta La Ideas

L’Édition 2011 is a “graduate student initiative”—the collection of the final projects of Masters students at the École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint Étienne (ESAD for short). The nine largely self-directed projects represent each of the graduates’ approach to an issue of their choosing.

Sébastien Cluzel’s “Culinary Landscape” (my personal favorite) is an ultraminimal, almost Muji-like approach to kitchen design. Cluzel’s form follows from function, where “the table consists of four areas critical to the kitchen: a place of preparation, a water point, a cutting plane and a cooking area.”

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