Johan Brunel is the guest of the talk “Franco-Japanese Collaborations” organized by the City of Kyoto and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. With Yoshiaki Shiokawa, CEO of Maison Wa, and Shuji Nakagawa, Wood-craft Master.
At the ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel, Kyoto.
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As a designer engaged in the search of solace more than comfort alone, Johan Brunel has been pursuing the study of « things that feel good ». Resident at the Villa Kujoyama from January to June 2018, he is interested in what happens during communal bathing (sento, onsen) and he wants to transmit its qualities in other contexts. He collaborates especially with the cooper artist Shuji Nakagawa on the creation of new bathroom objects. He seeks to gather the conditions of a great collective and inter-cultural contemporary baths project .

2018 年の一月から六月まで、京都のヴィラ九 条山でのレジデンス滞在を通して、日本にお ける“元気づけてくれるモノ”のデザインの 探求に取り組んでいるフィンランド系フラン ス人デザイナーです。その手始めとして、入 浴のひと時に欠かせないバス用品の製作を進 めています。彼は、木製のアーティスト、中川修司と共同して、新しいバスルームのオブジェクトの作成に取り組んでいます。彼は、偉大な集団的、異文化的な現代風呂プロジェクトの条件を集めようとしている。

May 22, 2017: pre-opening of the Bobigny MC93, redesigned to be, on a public and inter-community scale, both a place of life, a tool for work and cultural dissemination. Johan Brunel designed the furniture in the hall and the restaurant, made in collaboration with the carpenter Joe Kendall, the MC93’s decoration workshops, the Compagnons du devoir and the Hermès foundation.
photo Clément Guillaume

December 2017 – Delivery of three artist studios at the Cité Internationale des Arts, in the 1st district of Paris.
Design by Pauline Gaudry (Wy-to architects) and Johan Brunel, in the aim to provide a particularly stimulating living and working environment for artists in residence.

Sign design intervention by Gorki! (Johan Brunel, Benoit Bonnemaison-Fitte and Nicolas Omet), for the Paris design festival D’days 2017, from May 2 to 14 in the large gallery of the Decorative Arts Museum, Paris.
Photo Nicolas Omet

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Johan Brunel, guest of Une vie d’artiste, radio broadcast by Aurélie Charon on France Culture.
Talks about his research around comfort and contemporary refuges.
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Nomadic Laboratory Monteneri installation in progress, Valentano, Italy

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Nomadic swimsuits pop-up-store for Le Cap.

Exhibition of the first devices of the Laboratorio Nomade, modular furniture and systems developed with Monteneri, in Milano, Salone Origin, until September 8, 2016.

Studiolone et Studiolino, malles-échantillonniers conçues par Johan Brunel pour Monteneri, plateforme italienne de maroquinerie, exposées au Centre national de la danse (CND) à Pantin.