DESIGNER

Etienne Marc

Etienne Marc is a french designer/craftsman born in Amiens (1995). He studied product design in Reims and Contextual Design in the Design Academy of Eindhoven where he started to develop a hands-on practice and a deep interest in materials and their symbolic meanings. His use of materials borrowed from traditional art mixed with ones that refer to the physical reality of our time play with our expectations and challenge traditional meanings and values.

"If the foundation of my research is focused on the structure of plants, what fascinates me most is how we perceive them beyond their role within an ecosystem — but rather for their cultural essence, from magical virtues to mythological symbolism or regional emblems."