Joran Briand

To understand the work of an architect or a designer, to perceive his drawing intention, you need to find his conterpoint, his convergence line. For Joran Briand it is the ocean. If he is known for his urban integrations like the vast concrete nets of the Mucem and the Jean-Bouin stadium for Rudy Ricciotti, the work of this young designer trained in Olivier de Serres and the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris always head to the open sea, to the waves unbroken flow.

When he draws a gunny stool for SaintLuc, it is a mooring post that emerges. When he organizes the Granit group exhibition, he contributes by a surfboard with embroidery inclusions. Even the prototype of his concrete bench for Vinci seems to stretch to the swell… That’s with this inspiration and his deep understanding of architecture that Joran Briand always question the object. He requires for each creation a dialogue to a larger scale, the one of structure, of building, of space.