Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost & Dominique Perrault

Background

Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost was born in Metz in 1962, graduated from the École Camondo in Paris in 1988, and began working with Dominique Perrault in 1989. Dominique Perrault, born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1953, began architecture studies in 1973, took his architect DPLG diploma at Paris's École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1978 and founded the architecture practice DPA in Paris in 1981.

Signature Style

Mesh is the material at the centre of their lighting work: a flexible material endowed with structure that they captured, shaped and sometimes grafted into the interior of the fixtures, creating the thousands of lighting devices that illuminate the Bibliothèque Nationale de France day and night. Their lighting is a domestication of raw industrial power that is both radical and refined.

Notable Works

• In The Tube and In The Tube 360°
• In The Sun, including the cordless In The Sun Table
• In Fine, wall and pendant lights
• Dominique Perrault's architecture: the Berlin Velodrome, the Luxembourg Court of Justice extension, Piazza Garibaldi in Naples, the DC Towers in Vienna, the Ewha University campus in Seoul and the Fukoku Tower in Osaka

Legacy

Their signature on the In The Tube, In The Tube 360° and In The Sun collections takes the work from architecture to the domestic setting.