Bookshelves by Paweł Grobelny. Source: Paris Design Week
The award-winning Polish designer is among the exhibitors at this year's edition of France's most dynamic showcase of new design
In 2009 Grobelny was selected as part of the 100 Young Creative European Talents for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. Several years before he won the LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy for Young Creators 2005/2006 competition, along with awards at Parckdesign 2008, Prodeco 2006 - Jeune Créateur, Prodeco 2008 and Machina Design Awards 2009. He created a signature recreational scheme for the Jardins Albertine in Brussells and Zhongshan in Shanghai (the latter as part of EXPO 2012), as well as other ergonomic public space projects in Belgium, Poland, France, Estonia and Spain. His works have been exhibited at design festivals around the world, including DesignMai in Berlin, Talents Ambiente in Frankfurt, Meuble Paris in Paris and Tokyo Design week.
Paweł Grobelny is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He has also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-arts de Lyon, receiving numerous scholarships from these institutions and the French government, as well as the Le Pont Neuf Foundation. Apart from projects in the urban space, he designs furniture and interiors. He is also active in curating design exhibitions and promoting other talented designers, including the Unpolished. Young Design From Poland traveling exhibition of Poland's greatest design talents.
In Paris Grobelny is presenting a series of minimalist bookshelves that play with the arrangement of books within a shelf space, using a simple form and geometric planes to store books, but also provide desk space or simply somewhere to set one's coffee. He sees functionality and references to nature as a point of reference and an inspiration in his work.
Paris Design Week
Les Docks - Cité de la Mode et du Design
10 - 16 September 2012
www.parisdesignweek.fr
Editor: Agnieszka Le Nart
Source: Paris Design Week, FUTU, Unpolished