Végétal design / Patrick Nadeau

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Thierry de BeaumontPreface by Laurent Denize d'Estrées - Co-publication Alternatives et Particule 14, 2012. 159 P. 

Think alive & think vegetal: urban by nature in search of nature (and therefore meaning).

As I have said many times, the increased urbanization of our time - we are urban by nature - is pushing us de facto towards a rebalancing as close as possible to life. Plants and gardens (just like living food) are at the centre of our well-being, they irrigate our psychological and emotional balance and are an inexhaustible source of pleasure. In short, plants make us beautiful, happy and I would even say more intelligent. Yes, it is in contact with nature, the living that we can recharge our batteries, refocus on true values, deepen things as close as possible to the essential or find the sap of our creativity. In a word, to remain and grow human.

Here is the preface to Patrick Nadeau's book:

"On the terrace of the bar La Place Verte (a predestined name!), we were exchanging with my friend Patrick Nadeau on the conception of an event around time and plants. Patrick told me about the "plant clocks" of the XVIIIͤ century, a kind of garden that came alive throughout the day and thus gave the time that it was ... (approximately, he tells me, in his dreamy tone).

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All Patrick Nadeau is there, a clever mix of erudition and simplicity, a very particular tone...

I first met this bird that fell out of the nest, ten years ago, for a concrete project! The subject was surprising enough: a plant-loving architect-designer coming to talk to me about a concrete project! Incongruous. The idea was to set up plant libraries for the city of Rennes using high-performance concrete technology: magic, pure poetry, accuracy of purpose, delicate strength, discreet presence. Looking back, I don't know whether it's the project or the man I'm talking about. It doesn't matter, Patrick is so imbued with his work or vice versa, the result is there. His candor knows how to tame with flexibility this living material and naturally impose a conversation with fixed forms. Unless it is our "garden designer" who lets himself be imposed by plants and living matter to (re)invent more sensitive and more human spaces.

Softness in a steep, urban, and concrete world, a green spirit open to nature, perhaps dreaming of one day being transported to the heavens by a giant bean, that's how I imagine Patrick Nadeau.

But make no mistake! Behind his little glasses and his tousled hairstyle of an artist a little elsewhere is an architect who wonders both about the possibility of the plant finally being considered as a building material in its own right, and about the very status of the plant in its individuality, its diversity and its status as a living organism, unique and respectable. Questions that should be ours when we nonchalantly trample on what Mother Nature offers us from the tips of our shoes.

In the book devoted to him, we are invited to take a walk in our daily environment, I mean what surrounds us wherever we are - in town, at the table, at the office, at the bath ... - no matter, nature envelops us and hates emptiness! Never forget that! »

About Patrick Nadeau

What if plants are more evolved and better organized than we are? How then can we communicate with the most mysterious kingdom on the planet, if not through the language of shapes and materials, through design? The architect-designer Patrick Nadeau is the instigator of a daring and visionary movement: plant design, which intends to create objects, furniture and habitats in osmosis with the living in order to receive from the "green part of the world" the keys to a poetic and sensitive domestic environment.

Through the portrait of an atypical and fertile creator, this book retraces the advent of this new discipline, which brought schools, students, manufacturers, publishers, specialists or simple enthusiastic amateurs into its stride, and implemented new technological and scientific tools related to botany: above-ground crops, physiology, biotechnologies. In parallel to this widely illustrated monograph, the author, Thierry de Beaumont, revisits the history of our relationship with the plant world on the scale of an interior, a city, a site and leads us to reconsider the intimate relationship we have with plants, because, even without a brain and a language, they often have the last word, that of natural reason.

About Thierry de Beaumont :

Journalist and author, Thierry de Beaumont teaches methodology at the Camondo School of Design and Interior Architecture in Paris. Co-author of Anne Bony's Dictionnaire du design et des arts appliqués in 1996, then of Anne Bony's Les années 90, published by Editions du Regard, he published in 2010 Culinaire Design/Marc Bretillot by Editions Alternatives, a reference work on the prospects of a renewed design in full mutation. Editor-in-chief of the magazine Verre et Création, he devotes himself to writing extended monographs on designers and artists: Made in Daney : design, architecture and scenography, published by Archibooks, Michi Suzuki, perle d'art and l'Arche de Verre by Baldwin and Guggisberg, published by Revue de la céramique et du verre. As a member of the Particule14 designers' association, Thierry de Beaumont intends to put man back at the centre of the disciplines applied to our domestic environment with a view to respecting the natural balance, sustainability and creative sincerity.

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