Clemence Seilles, designer,
born 1984 in Besancon, France
Clemence Seilles is a young French designer. She grew up
in a valley with the Alps for neighbours and the woods for
a playground. She produces real-life situations through the
use of objects, performances and installations. She studied
at the school of Art and Design of Reims before reaching
London’s Royal College of Art. She counts Pierre Charpin,
Jürgen Bey and Martino Gamper among the various influential
characters she met during her studies. During that
time, she escaped
for a few months to Rotterdam to take
part in the work of Altelier van Lieshout, who was working
on heterotopia:
a deviant world with a geographical existence.
In October 2008 she attended Jerszy Seymour’s design
workshop. In addition to industrial projects, it was also a
good year for exhibitions by Seymour’s Amateur society.Clemence Seilles has taken part in various group shows in
Paris for le VIA des ecoles, in London for Charming Disaster,
head-lines, Excell design centre, RCA graduation show,
Auto-progettazione revisited as well as in Amsterdam for a
room at the Lloyd hotel. She also recently inaugurated the
café at the HBC in Berlin.