Joachim Jirou-Najou was born in 1980 in Nancy. He works in Paris. After graduating from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims in 2002, he briefly joined the Delo Lindo agency in 2003 while studying at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, from which he graduated in 2004 with honors. His graduation project consisted in a wall furniture collection named Portée. It was first edited and exposed by Gilles Peyroulet & Cie gallery in 2005 and then by Luisa Delle Piane gallery in Milano. After sharing his time between a collaboration with Pierre Charpin and personal projects from 2004 to 2012, he created his own studio in early 2013.

That’s how he now regularly works with editors, in particular Habitat, for whom he draws various projects such as the low tables collection named Tipi (2014) or the desks named Henry (2017). Other collaborations of various types occured, for exemple with the danish company named Elements Optimal in 2019 who edits the Bear carpet for children.

Furthermore, he is regularly in charge of the scenography of exhibitions for institutions such as the Villa Noailles, national center of national interest.

His spatial approach of design is also reflected in more experimental projects. One of those was the 5Rooms project carried on by Silvia Fiorucci-Roman, in partnership with the art center Villa Noailles in Hyères. This project, which gathered local know-hows, consisted in the design and creation of furnitures of one of the five bedrooms of the Moulin des Ribes Mas in Grasse.

For Joachim Jirou-Najou, drawing is a key founding element of his design practice. It is reflected in several projects such as the collaboration with gallery The Art Design Lab (2017), the conception of drawing notebooks Blocs Notes edited by Les Trois Ourses (2010) and a kid costume created for the exhibition « le Bestiaire de Ionna Vautrin ».

Elected as one of the 10 best creators of the year during the exhibition « Now! design à vivre » in 2010, he was also laureate of the Bourse Agora for the design with the Dito group, which he contributed to create. He also obtained the Projects Helps of the VIA in 2018 and, simultaneously, was finalist of the contest of the Design Parade 03 festival at the villa Noailles. Joachim Jirou-Najou was resident at the Ateliers de Paris from 2013 to 2015. Two of his projects, the Portée collection and the kid costume Nours, were acquired by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) for the collections of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC).