建築家
Architect

デザイナー
Designer

Gala Espel is a French architect and designer working between Paris and Tokyo.

Her field of creation is rooted in research and crafts from which emerge narratives and forms investigating how to collectively rethink design. Graduated from Camondo, Paris and ECAL in Switzerland in 2022, she sets foot in Japan after winning a competition held by Le Bon Marché and studio nendo. She asserts her role on know hows the same year with the opening set design of the Chanel building dedicated to métiers d’art.

Laureate of the French Ministry of Culture call for projects, resident at Villa Albertine in New York, her international practice is imbued with a research into culture, reflecting on the long term between industry and crafts, and on the objects themselves and their relationship to mankind and to life.
Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, Paris and Milan Design Weeks and in several design institutions.

This year, she was selected as a finalist of Villa Noailles Design Parade for “Archaeology of the Future” her latest project that will make its Tokyo debut at DESIGNART 2023.

ガラ・エスペルは、パリと東京を拠点に活動するフランスの建築家・デザイナー。
数々の受賞歴を持つ。彼女の創作活動はリサーチとクラフトに根ざしており、そこからストーリーやフォルムが生まれる。多文化の視点と、職人とのコラボレーションを通して「デザイン」を絶えず再考する。パリのカモンドデザイン学院、スイスのECAL学院で学ぶ。2022年卒業。在学中の2020年、studio nendo のコンペで優勝、日本での活動を始める。同年、シャネル「19M 」のオープニング装飾デザインを手がけ、熟練した職人技術への自身の役割を示した。

フランス文化省の公募プロジェクト受賞、国費留学生としてニューヨークのヴィラ・アルベルティーヌに滞在。エスペルはこの国際的な経験と実践から文化をより深く探求し、産業とクラフトの関係、モノそのもの、モノが人類やその日常とどのようにかかわっているのか、を長期にわたって熟考していくことになる。ガラ・エスペルの作品はパリの装飾美術館の展覧会やミラノデザインウィークで展示された他、数々の名だたるデザイン関連機関で展示されている。

DESIGNART Tokyo 2023 で展示される「Archaeology of the Future」はヴィラ・ノアイユで開催されるDesign Parade展にも選ばれている。

パートナーシップ
Partnerships

19M, CHANEL
nendo
La Prairie
DEDON
Tectona
French Ministry of Culture
Fondation Bettencourt Schueller

展示会
Exhibitions

« Archaeology of the Future” at Design Miami.
Partnership with Mobilier National, Villa Albertine and Galerie Philia.
Miami, US, December 2023.

Talk, « The beginning of the rest of your life”.
PechaKucha Night
Tokyo, October 2023.

UNDER 30 selection, DESIGNART, Tokyo Design Week.
“Archaeology of the Future,” design research and silver objects
at TIERS Gallery, Omotesando.
Tokyo JP, October 2023.

Finalist Design Parade Hyères.
“Archaeology of the Future” at Villa Noailles.
Hyères FR, June-September 2023.

Villa Albertine Resident “Crafts and Design”
in partnership with WantedDesign
and Fondation Bettencourt Schueller,
New York “Objects in Dialogue,” a collaboration
with eight Brooklyn craftsmen at Industry City.
New-York US, April-June 2023.

Set design “Île“ for choreographer Mathieu Guilhaumon
and étoile Marie Agnès Gilot, July 2023.
Research project “Île” and set design, laureate of French Ministry of Culture
“Mondes Nouveaux”, Beaux Arts de Paris.
Paris FR, 2022-2023.

Set design for le 19M, dedicated to Chanel métiers d’art, Paris.
“Making of” opening installation.
Paris FR, February 2022.

Exhibition at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
Research project and object collection “Poc a poc.”
Paris FR, January 2022.

Paris Design Week exhibition
Research project “Poc a poc.”
Paris FR, September 2021.

Collective set design “Teatro del Giorno” at Palazzo Litta, Milan Design Week.
Milan IT, April 2019.

メディア掲載
Press

designboom, DESIGNART Tokyo 2023 Highlights, October 2023.

Time Out Japan, DESIGNART Tokyo opens with 5 Highlights, October 2023

Design Anthology, What to See at DESIGNART TOKYO 2023, October 2023.

hash casa, 視点が生み出す繊細な作品群をTIERS GALLERYで展示, October 2023.

The Japan Times, Designart’s young creator foreshadow the future, October 2023.

Tecture Mag,「DESIGNART TOKYO 2023」10/20より開催, October 2023.

FuoriSalone.it, Designart Tokyo 2023: Sparks - Freeing your Thoughts, October 2023.

World Architecture, Highlights, October 2023.

OnBeat, DESIGNART TOKYO 2023 UNDER 30・公式会場決定, October 2023.

Bijutsutecho,「DESIGNART TOKYO 2023」が10月20日より開催, October 2023.

Beyond Magazine, UNDER 30, September 2023

Lula Mag, DESIGNART 2023, June 2023

Design Shanghai, The debut works of 10 new designers, June 2023

Aoyama Design Forum,「DESIGNART TOKYO 2023」のキービジュアルが公開, May 2023.

GOODMOODS, 7 designers finalistes Design Parade Hyères 2023, April 2023

Marie Claire, Design Parade 2023, March 2023

Elle Deco, Design Parade 2023: Les étoiles montantes, March 2023

baunetz id, Dedon Studio x ECAL , March 2023.

Wallpaper, Dedon and ECAL interpret lighting through a natural lens, February 2023.

IDEAT, Villa Albertine, February 2023

IDEAT, Les 10 finalistes du festival Design Parade, February 2023

Le Point, Découvrir les mains du luxe, January 2022

Eyes on Talents, Design for Good, December 2021

IDEAT, Milan Design Week, May 2019

Elle Decor Italia, Fuori Salone, April 2019

France 2, La nouvelle garde française, April 2019

連絡先
Contact

GALAESPEL@GMAIL.COM
@GALA ESPEL

PARIS 75014
TOKYO 153-0052