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Biography
Pierre Lapeyronnie is a Paris-based artist and designer whose fascination with resonances, waves and silences led him to explore the potential of sound as a material while studying at the Institute of Fine Arts. His interest in both sonic and spatial volume has shaped his career ever since, and today he works with wood, stone, steel, ceramic, plaster and bronze to create unique, sculptural pieces that reflect his radical, constructivist approach to art and design. The functionality of his work is essential to him, but his quest goes beyond this; each piece he creates is intended to become part of an environment, to become (through reflections or voids) as interconnected with its physical context as a sound is. Balance is vital to him, both conceptually and on a formal level, and the structural strength and purity of his work encapsulates this guiding principle.
In 2022 his Huchet table lamp was acquired by the Mobilier National. His work has been exhibited at events including PAD Paris, Paris Design Week, IMM koln and Maison et Objet.
In 2022 his Huchet table lamp was acquired by the Mobilier National. His work has been exhibited at events including PAD Paris, Paris Design Week, IMM koln and Maison et Objet.
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Approach
It all begins with a fascination: wave phenomena, the invisible forces that propagate, resonate, travel through matter. Waves cannot be seen, they are felt. They alter bodies, spaces, perceptions, imperceptibly or with sudden force. It is from this fundamental intuition that Pierre Lapeyronnie builds his work: not as a designer who solves problems, but as someone who listens carefully and seeks to make visible what, by its very nature, eludes the eye.
Sound, in this practice, is a material in its own right. Like wood, metal or light, it has density, texture, a capacity to inhabit space and transform it. It reflects off surfaces, is absorbed by certain materials, diffracts against form. To work with this awareness of sound is to conceive each piece not only as a visible object but as a physical body within an acoustic environment, something that receives the vibrations of the world and responds in its own way.
Music deepens and extends this exploration. Structure, thought, a way of apprehending time and space simultaneously, it runs through the work almost organically. To compose is to organise tensions, breaths, silences as much as sounds. It is from this logic that the pieces are built: through resonances, through fragile equilibria, through suspended moments. Some seem to carry within them a buried frequency, as though the form itself were a wave caught mid-flight, vibrating, on the verge of propagating once more.
From this act of listening emerge objects, lights, installations, unique pieces or limited editions, all made by hand in his Montreuil studio. This act of making matters: the material is not subordinated to an idea, it responds to it, resists it, participates in it. In a continuous dialogue between thought and workbench, between what is heard and what is touched, the pieces of Pierre Lapeyronnie find their rightness, their balance, and their singular way of continuing to vibrate within the space that receives them.approac
Sound, in this practice, is a material in its own right. Like wood, metal or light, it has density, texture, a capacity to inhabit space and transform it. It reflects off surfaces, is absorbed by certain materials, diffracts against form. To work with this awareness of sound is to conceive each piece not only as a visible object but as a physical body within an acoustic environment, something that receives the vibrations of the world and responds in its own way.
Music deepens and extends this exploration. Structure, thought, a way of apprehending time and space simultaneously, it runs through the work almost organically. To compose is to organise tensions, breaths, silences as much as sounds. It is from this logic that the pieces are built: through resonances, through fragile equilibria, through suspended moments. Some seem to carry within them a buried frequency, as though the form itself were a wave caught mid-flight, vibrating, on the verge of propagating once more.
From this act of listening emerge objects, lights, installations, unique pieces or limited editions, all made by hand in his Montreuil studio. This act of making matters: the material is not subordinated to an idea, it responds to it, resists it, participates in it. In a continuous dialogue between thought and workbench, between what is heard and what is touched, the pieces of Pierre Lapeyronnie find their rightness, their balance, and their singular way of continuing to vibrate within the space that receives them.approac
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Exhibition
2026 / PAD PARIS / 88 Gallery / Paris (FR)
2025 / PAD LONDON / 88 Gallery / London (UK)
2025 / FOLDED FUSION / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2025 / SUMMER SHOW / 88 Gallery + Stephanie Friedrick/ Antwerp (BE)
2025 / DES HISTOIRES / Galerie Gosserez + Amélie du Chalard / Paris (FR)
2025 / HÔTEL UCHRONIA / Maison & Objets / Villepinte (FR)
2025 / BIENNALE EMERGENCES / CND / Pantin (FR)
2024 / PAD LONDON / 88 Gallery / London (UK)
2024 / MATIERES PREMIERES / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2024 / TERRE EAU / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2024 / PROCHAINES CORRESPONDANCES / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2024 / The Invisible Collection + Féau Boiseries / Paris (FR)
2023 / PAD PARIS / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2023 / PDW / Espace Commines / Paris (FR)
2023 / BIENNALE EMERGENCES / CND / Pantin (FR)
2023 / AQUISITIONS DU MOBILIER NATIONNAL / Reserve Peret / Paris (FR)
2016 / PDW / Cité de la mode et du design / Paris (FR)
2013 / Maison & Objets / Ligne Roset / Villepinte (FR)
2013 / IMM KOLN / Ligne Roset / Koln (DE)
2011 / NOW! LE OFF / Cité de la mode et du design / Paris (FR)
2006 / 20 / CAC FARBOS / Bayonne (FR)
2006 / DIPLOME / Musée des Beaux-Atrs / Bordeaux (FR)
2025 / PAD LONDON / 88 Gallery / London (UK)
2025 / FOLDED FUSION / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2025 / SUMMER SHOW / 88 Gallery + Stephanie Friedrick/ Antwerp (BE)
2025 / DES HISTOIRES / Galerie Gosserez + Amélie du Chalard / Paris (FR)
2025 / HÔTEL UCHRONIA / Maison & Objets / Villepinte (FR)
2025 / BIENNALE EMERGENCES / CND / Pantin (FR)
2024 / PAD LONDON / 88 Gallery / London (UK)
2024 / MATIERES PREMIERES / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2024 / TERRE EAU / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2024 / PROCHAINES CORRESPONDANCES / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2024 / The Invisible Collection + Féau Boiseries / Paris (FR)
2023 / PAD PARIS / Galerie Gosserez / Paris (FR)
2023 / PDW / Espace Commines / Paris (FR)
2023 / BIENNALE EMERGENCES / CND / Pantin (FR)
2023 / AQUISITIONS DU MOBILIER NATIONNAL / Reserve Peret / Paris (FR)
2016 / PDW / Cité de la mode et du design / Paris (FR)
2013 / Maison & Objets / Ligne Roset / Villepinte (FR)
2013 / IMM KOLN / Ligne Roset / Koln (DE)
2011 / NOW! LE OFF / Cité de la mode et du design / Paris (FR)
2006 / 20 / CAC FARBOS / Bayonne (FR)
2006 / DIPLOME / Musée des Beaux-Atrs / Bordeaux (FR)