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Press release 04/06/21

Exposition Ici & Ailleurs
                            (Here & Elsewhere)
Victoria Magniant for Galerie V
Pa r i s D e s i g n We e k 2 0 2 1
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs - (Here & Elsewhere) Victoria Magniant for Galerie V Paris Design Week 2021 - GALERIE V / VICTORIA MAGNIANT
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs (Here & Elsewhere)
                                                   Paris Design Week 2021 Victoria Magniant

The collection, dreams,
and Jean Arp
For the 2021 Paris Design Week, Paris-based      These pieces are an embodiment of
designer Victoria Magniant explores the          simplicity. The wood surfaces are finely
links between imagination, reality, and the      sanded, creating organic shapes
digital world. Her latest creations are also a   highlighted by subtle water-based colors.
tribute to Jean Arp’s dreamscapes.               The organic strength of the materials opens
                                                 the narrative of a community of senses.
Driven by the willingness to give a central
place to poetry and revery inside a              This new collection is part of a research on
household abruptly transformed by the            invisible flows of circulation, where the use
remote working revolution, she presents          of free forms comes as a mean to optimize
Noizu side tables, a Kumo daybed, a Zou          and liberate our daily-living spaces.
crescent moon desk, and a constellation of
silvery Célestes portable lamps.

 ↗   3D images by
       Zyva Studio

                                                                             Press release 04/06/21
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs - (Here & Elsewhere) Victoria Magniant for Galerie V Paris Design Week 2021 - GALERIE V / VICTORIA MAGNIANT
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs (Here & Elsewhere)
                                                                   Paris Design Week 2021 Victoria Magniant

Tables Basses POND                                                Table Naibu
stained ash: 27.56" X 15.75" / 27.56" x 19.69" Price on request   stained ash: 94.49" X 39.37" x 29.53" Price on request

Day-bed Kumo
stained ash: 787.40" X 27.56" x 29.53" Price on request

↗   3D images by
      Zyva Studio

                                                                                                          Press release 04/06/21
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs - (Here & Elsewhere) Victoria Magniant for Galerie V Paris Design Week 2021 - GALERIE V / VICTORIA MAGNIANT
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs (Here & Elsewhere)
                                                          Paris Design Week 2021 Victoria Magniant

Astra XL
polished brass: 25.59" x 9.84", 1920 €

Bureau ZOU                                               Floor lamp Céleste , polished brass and Murano
stained ash: 51.18" X 27.56" x 29.53" Price on request   glass: 74.80" x 43.31" Price on request

Portable lamp Celeste
Murano glass, cordless: 11.81" x 5.91" , 780 €

↗   3D images by
      Zyva Studio

                                                                                              Press release 04/06/21
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs - (Here & Elsewhere) Victoria Magniant for Galerie V Paris Design Week 2021 - GALERIE V / VICTORIA MAGNIANT
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs (Here & Elsewhere)
                                                   Paris Design Week 2021 Victoria Magniant

Aesthetic of a reasoned
utopia
For this collection, Victoria Magniant           of illusions and trickeries, like the mental
collaborates with Zyva Studio in order to        departure from an urban space, and makes
create surreal scenographies. “Ici & Ailleurs”   it possible to bring to life the demands of
(“Here & Elsewhere”) integrates a collection     design and the dream of an escape in a
of 3D-rendered visual stories, documenting       single modeled space.
the creation of new geographies.
                                                 All frontiers now being abolished, Victoria
The colored ash wood furniture pieces are        Magniant explores all possibilities and
displayed in a sort of out-of-this-world day     virtualities in her practice. Defining the
spa, scattered elements hinting at a form        boundaries of one’s world and living it to
of life. Amid an atmospheric landscape,          the fullest remain a statement of freedom
the Celeste Murano glass lamps brighten          that must precede any act of creation.
up the scenery with a soft and comforting
light.                                           The concept behind those images is to
                                                 offer and explore a utopic vision for the
This digital escape serves as a catalyst         sustainable and socially conscious world of
for freedom and bewilderment. Playing            Victoria Magniant.
with reality, 3D rendering allows all kinds

                                                                            Press release 04/06/21
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs - (Here & Elsewhere) Victoria Magniant for Galerie V Paris Design Week 2021 - GALERIE V / VICTORIA MAGNIANT
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs (Here & Elsewhere)
                    Paris Design Week 2021 Victoria Magniant

↗   3D images by
      Zyva Studio

                                             Press release 04/06/21
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs - (Here & Elsewhere) Victoria Magniant for Galerie V Paris Design Week 2021 - GALERIE V / VICTORIA MAGNIANT
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs (Here & Elsewhere)
                                                   Paris Design Week 2021 Victoria Magniant

Paris Design Week
at Galerie V
“Ici & Ailleurs” is an invitation for a poetic   Round table discussions will be the
getaway.                                         opportunity to meet designer Victoria
                                                 Magniant, founder of Galerie V, and
Victoria Magniant gives a physicality to         architect Anthony Authie, founder of
these images otherwise living in the digital     Zyva Studio. They will present their
world, creating a space she defines as           creative process and how they
a platform for exchanging ideas. Large           collaborate on projects. These
prints of the images brought to life by          conferences aim to gather a community
Zyva Studio will be displayed alongside her      of design enthusiasts
design collection, immersing the visitor in a    and connoisseurs and to help them in
meditative space.                                developing their own sense of aesthetic.
The “Ici & Ailleurs” series will be edited and
exhibited in Paris during the Paris Design
Week at Galerie V from 9 to 18 September
2021. This trip towards an elsewhere will be
the occasion to discover the new creations
of designer Victoria Magniant.

                                                                         ↖   3D images by
                                                                               Zyva Studio

                                                                             Press release 04/06/21
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs - (Here & Elsewhere) Victoria Magniant for Galerie V Paris Design Week 2021 - GALERIE V / VICTORIA MAGNIANT
Exposition Ici & Ailleurs (Here & Elsewhere)
                                                         Paris Design Week 2021 Victoria Magniant

Biography

After a degree in graphic design from                  of alternative production systems, whether
Central Saint Martins in London, Victoria              for a clothing line, a perfume or a furniture
Magniant quickly surrounded herself with               collection.
a variety of creative established artists.
Her relationships with craftsmen from                  Victoria Magniant’s specificity is her
all over the world led her to grasp a very             uncanny ability to walk on the edge
contemporary challenge: the development                between a virtual world and a material
of tangible expertise and skills in a                  world, two universes with distinct laws and
disrupted economy.                                     vocabularies which she seamlessly blends
                                                       in all of her creations.This cross-cutting
Victoria has developed a strong sense                  perspective is what leads her to create
of ethics which she infuses in all of her              unusual objects impregnated with
projects through a central idea: the creation          dream-like universes.

                                   ↗   Photo credit:
                                        Iliyes Giyeb

Practical information:
Ici & Ailleurs (Here & Elsewhere)
PDW The event will take place from 9 to 18 septembre
2021 Galerie V - 39-41 Galerie Vivienne Paris 2e
Press contact:
01 40 26 28 84 - bonjour@galeriev.fr
www.galeriev.fr
Galerie V: 39-41 Galerie Vivienne Paris 2e
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