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| Born | 8 September 1966 Toulouse |
| Website | http://www.massaud.com |
Jean-Marie Massaud (born 1966 in Toulouse, France) is a French architect, inventor and designer. He was born in Toulouse, France in 1966.
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| Born | 8 September 1966 Toulouse |
| Website | http://www.massaud.com |
Jean-Marie Massaud (born 1966 in Toulouse, France) is a French architect, inventor and designer. He was born in Toulouse, France in 1966.
Jean-Marie Massuad graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle – Les Ateliers, Paris (ENSCI) [1] in 1990 and began working with Marc Berthier. In 2000, he co-founded the Studio Massaud with Daniel Pouzet with the aim of expanding his interests in the fields of architecture.
Since the beginning of his career Jean-Marie Massaud has been working on an extensive range of works, stretching from architecture to objects, from one-off project to serial ones, from macro environment down to micro contexts. His work spans architecture and the full spectrum of object design—from bespoke furniture and industrial products, to, to visionnary design concepts like a helium-filled airship hotel. Manned Cloud with ONERA as scientific partner or like an innovative concept car, MeWe for Toyata Ed2. Major brands in various different fields (perfumes, tableware, furniture, lighting, …) such as B&B Italia, Axor Hansgrohe, Christofle, Poliform, Poltrona Frau, Lancôme, Renault, Air France, ...have solicited his ability to mix comfort and elegance, zeitgeist and heritage, generosity and distinction. Jean-Marie Massaud has run a quest for synthesis, reduction and lightness since his first intuitions.
His collaboration with the French designer Marc Berthier and his work in the field of town planning led him towards design and architecture. His contextual approach centres on research into the essential, within which the individual remains the centre of attention. It is a work upheld by research into the senses, magic, and vital emotion which brings him to work with very different brands.
Beyond these elegant designs, his quest for lightness – in matters of essence – synthesizes three broader stakes: individual and collective fulfillment, economic and industrial efficiency, and environmental concerns. "I'm trying to find an honest, generous path with the idea that, somewhere between the hard economic data, there are users. People."
His creations, whether speculative or pragmatic, explore this imperative paradigm: reconciling pleasure with responsibility, the individual with the collective. When asked to imagine a new stadium for the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, he comes back with a never seen before cloud and volcano-shaped building, integrated in a vast urban-development program that re-unite leisure and culture, nature and urbanization, sport aficionados and local citizens. Instead of implanting a stadium, he proposed an environment. And the initial vision has proven a realistic approach: the project has come to life in July 2011.
More recently, his concept car developed in partnership with Toyota, has the same objective. MEWE is a synthesis of economical and ecological concepts, integrating issues specific to each stakeholder: the user, industry, and the environment. A pioneering multiple-use platform that is a car for the people, with a body in expanded polypropylene foam: a major innovation. "When I'm working on a project, there’s always an attempt to renew the subject I’m involved in". Another distinctive aspect of his approach.
Far away from trends and fashions, Jean Marie Massaud prefers questioning the existing, working out on progress and eventually proposing timeless and holistic answers to contemporary stakes. It is this symbiosis between Man, his creations and his natural environment, that Jean Marie Massaud strives. to reach, as a catalyst to innovation, as an economic model and as a life project.
His unique signature is reflected throughout: from the product design through to the architecture. His creations are intended to have a positive effect on people. And to create a better living space for them. Heavily influenced by the beauty and usefulness of the natural world, he loves to combine design and architecture.
Jean-Marie Massaud has said he draws design inspiration from the thoughtful elegance of Charles & Ray Eames, the eclecticism of Philippe Starck and Castiglioni Brothers, the sharpness of Antonio Citterio, and the expansive creativity of Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison.
Jean-Marie Massaud's approach to design – whether furniture, cars, interior design, architecture or urban planning – begins with the quality of experience and the idea of innovation in terms of environmental sustainability, economic efficiency and collective and individual well-being. The aim of his work is to create organic projects that connect people and nature. Nature, in fact, is the primary source of inspiration for the designer, who pursues solutions that can arouse emotions in their users. The result is an unmistakable signature characterised by simple elements, essential lines and extraordinary lightness.
His works have been awarded several prizes and many of his designs are nowadays on show in the design collections of the major museums worldwide: from Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Paris and Zurich: from the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne de Paris to the permanent collections of the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, of The Chicago Athenaeum- Museum of Architecture and Design, of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and of The Musée des arts Décoratifs, Paris.
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