JEAN-PAUL LESPAGNARD & J&J / EN Y

Furniture & clothing / design & production / Collaboration

“We blured fashion and furniture by reassembling found materials into instinctive, hybrid designs that give objects new life and function.”

These designs sits between furniture and fashion, between the living room, the wardrobe, and the garage.

We’ve been working four-hands with Ateliers J&J on seats, and I added some experimental garments to the mini collection. The spark came from those strange, almost anonymous objects and materials you find at second hand markets… or the ones dredged up from lakes and ports, patched together with whatever was lying around. Think car bits (here, seatbelts and massage mats), ropes, random cushions, and other leftovers that get a second breath.

It’s giving repair as instinct, re-assembling things in ways that are as evident than surprising, infusing them with a new life, even a new function.

This idea to translate the same raw inspiration into both clothing and furniture emerged. Wooden bead mats, for example, suddenly turn into graphic dresses. Seatbelts, usually meant to keep you in place, become sculptural silhouettes.

This project sits somehow between instinctive design, bricolage, craft, couture, and doesn’t really care which side of the sofa you’re on.