Jean-Baptiste Fastrez
France — b. 1984
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Biography
Jean-Baptiste Fastrez is a french designer, born in 1984.
In 2010, he graduated from ENSCI / Les Ateliers de Paris with honors.
After collaborating for three years with Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the designer opens his own studio in 2011 where he focuses on different product and space projects in limited editions and industrial design.
Fastrez has been designing for different brands and his notable collaborations are with the Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat, the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Sèvres / Cité de la céramique, the glass research center Cirva in Marseille, the French brand Moustache and the Paris and London based design gallery Galerie kreo...
Jean-Baptiste Fastrez is a french designer, born in 1984.
In 2010, he graduated from ENSCI / Les Ateliers de Paris with honors.
After collaborating for three years with Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the designer opens his own studio in 2011 where he focuses on different product and space projects in limited editions and industrial design.
Fastrez has been designing for different brands and his notable collaborations are with the Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat, the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Sèvres / Cité de la céramique, the glass research center Cirva in Marseille, the French brand Moustache and the Paris and London based design gallery Galerie kreo.
His work has been presented in various thematic exhibitions at VIA in Paris, at Mudac in Lausanne, at Grand Hornu in Belgium and at Museum of Art in Seoul.
Fastrez won several prizes: with his projects “Variations upon an electric kettle” and “Tomahawks hair dryer”, he won the 2011 Grand Prix du Jury of Design Parade 6 in Villa Noailles (Hyères, France) under the leadership of Stephan Diez. In 2015, he also won the Wallpaper Design Award for his vase «Scarabée».
His works are part of the permanent collections of the Center Pompidou and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, the Villa Noailles in Hyères as well as of the collection of the CNAP (Comité National des Arts Plastiques).
Since 2012 Galerie kreo has been producing several of Fastrez’s works in limited editions: the « Mask » mirror collection, the « Etna » coffee tables and the « Egypt » vase collection.
« Vivarium » marks Fastrez’s first solo exhibition at Galerie kreo. The exhibition presents a new body of work, comprising furniture and objects, delicately inspired by wild animals inhabiting the gallery as a vivarium.