Drawn so that local craftsmen could build it: Constance Guisset

One of the first interiors Constance Guisset signed, in 2010, was the ground floor of the new Institut Français in Ankara, designed with the Turkish architect Gül Gulven: reception desk, café-bar and bookshop. The brief carried a constraint that most design studios would treat as a problem and she treated as the concept: every piece of furniture had to be made by Ankara craftsmen. So the whole collection shares one construction, folded metal and wood, and the pieces are circular, arranged as a constellation that can be moved around because the room doubles as a corridor to the classrooms. That café later grew into the Ankara table collection, a Janus de l'industrie in 2014. Her Paris studio, founded in 2009, works across furniture, interior architecture and stage design; the FNAC, the CNAP and the Centre Pompidou have each acquired one of its objects.

For LaCividina, in 2018, she designed Waves: upholstered islands in diamond, parallel, trapezium and hexagon shapes, 34 to 58 cm high, joined by a magnetic system so that a lounge can be rearranged without tools. For Indian receptions and lounges the whole family, fabrics sampled first, comes through La Mercanti.