Matali Crasset

Architecture & Interiors/2006/36 min/Reel № 06.001

ByMatali Crasset

The nests of Matali Crasset

Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Matali Crasset takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in France in 2006, the conversation is grounded in Matali's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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What did Matali say about…

French designer Matali Crasset considers herself a "nest builder" and likes to communicate the diversity of, and intention behind, her work.

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About the speaker

Matali Crasset

Paris/France

Matali Crasset is a French product and industrial designer