Chapter one (2007) and To be continued (2007-08) are part of the thesis ”Theme & Variations”.
Those three pieces (two cabinets and a bench) use the process of repetition, embodied in the serial-production, to evolve and re-design themselves through their own production. The production line is then becoming part of the object and vice versa. It is made through a layering process. All the layers are casted on top of each other and try to copy the layer casted just before. Because of the imperfection of the copy, the object slowly mutates. An irregular extruded form slowly builds itself up and gives birth, once cut into pieces, to a series of objetcs which are all different from each other but still link by a shared origin (for instance, the third object could not have been designed without the two first ones and so on…).
Chapter one deals with creating a real and recognizable uniqueness within serial production. Instead of leaving randomness managing the differences, it uses the repetitive actions existing within the production process as a tool for differentiation. Then each piece produced comes as a result of a process applied on the piece that came before. Each piece is then existing because of the others and could not have been designed without the others. Each layer is casted on top of the one casted before following the exact outline of it. Because of the imperfection of the cast, the object slowly mutates. [Material : polyurethane composite. | Produced and sold by Studio Julien Carretero. ]
To be continued came as an improvement of the Chapter one project. It deals with creating a real and recognizable uniqueness within serial production. Instead of leaving randomness manage the differences, it uses the repetitive actions existing within the production process as a tool for differentiation.Then each piece produced comes as a result of a process applied on the piece that came before. Each piece is then existing because of the others and couldn’t have been designed without the others. Each layer is casted on top of the one casted before following the exact outline of it. Because of the imperfection of the cast, the object slowly mutates and start designing itself. [Material : polyurethane composite. | Produced and sold by Studio Julien Carretero.]
to be continued - bench
Thesis : “Theme & Variations” (2007)
Theme & Variations is a metaphor for a new view on production. It deals with creating a real and recognizable uniqueness within serial production. In music, variations are used to enrich a theme by renewing it. By making different a single piece of a whole, the variation is changing the whole itself. Based on seriality and difference, it is the art of creating a whole from a single core.
Instead of leaving randomness manage the differences in the serial production, Julien Carretero created a method that uses the repetitive actions existing within the production process as a tool that brings the differences. Then each piece produced comes as the result of a process applied on the piece that came before. Each piece is then existing because of the others and couldn’t have been designed without the others. Each piece is becoming a chapter of a same story.
about Julien Carretero
Nationality : French
Location : Eindhoven, Netherlands.
After graduating from the E.N.S.A.A.M.A. Olivier de Serres (National Institute for Applied Arts and Crafts) in Paris (F) and then from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (UK), Julien Carretero continued his studies in the IM Master course “conceptuel design in context” , at the Design Academy Eindhoven, under the direction of Gijs Bakker (Droog Design). His thesis entitled Theme & Variations explored the border between uniqueness and serial production. Since graduated, Julien decided to stay in the Netherlands in order to launch his own design studio focusing on conceptual design.
chapter one, Photos : Myoung Won Suh
to be continued - cabinet
