BOUISOUN -ANDREABOUQUET CABINETMAKER-

In the recent years of super-technologies like 3d printers and digitisation of the construction process, my work is probably entirely against this trend. In fact, both design and construction are done by hand and with the help of only a few power tools.

At project level I follow a few sketches that are often modified during construction, relying on my experience and sensitivity that guide me finishing the piece according to the material used. I’m in love with the matter and I was trained as a craftsman, so the "know how to do" is my strong point. I mix, blend and graft traditional ebony, furnitures and local history with contemporary shapes. My studio / workshop is situated at the edge of the woods so it looks at a natural, wild environment. This strongly stimulates the nature of my works with their mix of multiple wood species. Because there’s no natural lawn with just yellow flowers.

Bouisoun in the Occitan dialect refers to a bush that grows spontaneously and that was never pruned or tamed, grows wild as in its character and follows nature's pattern. Bouisoun work wishes to deprive the object of its original form and strength, providing distorted geometric and more natural lines. The fusion of these reaches a point of unstable equilibrium and extreme lightness, but of wild stability.