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Anaïs Mroz & Simon Boullier

  • Solum Lignum
  • Cabinetmaker
  • Loreux, France
  • Master Artisan
Anaïs Mroz & Simon Boullier Cabinetmaker
Contact
French, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+33 671981755
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The cabinetmaking duo in Sologne

  • • Anaïs and Simon chose this path out of passion
  • • They are inspired by nature’s infinite shapes and colours
  • • They design and craft to give each of their pieces a soul

In 2012, Anaïs Mroz and Simon Boullier were building a wooden board using recovered wood, when they realised what it is they really wanted to do with their time. Following their new-found passion for cabinetmaking, sculpture and design, these two engineering and business school graduates became full-time craftsmen. They completed a cabinetmaking diploma as free candidates, and set up their workshop soon after. Anaïs and Simon started creating their own furniture pieces with an array of skills such as woodcarving, burnt wood and chip carving techniques. They specialise in unique pieces or very small series and are now operating from their house-cum-atelier, a former hunting lodge surrounded by century-old oaks in Sologne.

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Works

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114

114 is a 2.10-metre high sculptural luminaire designed and manufactured in 2020. This piece is made from an assembly of 114 offcuts of light oak. It is a succession of horizontal and vertical wooden bars that give the impression of a cage. A final black ebonised wooden rod in the centre of the cage reveals a small bulb, a symbol of the scarcity of energy.

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86

86 is a coffee table imagined and manufactured in 2021. It was made with 86 offcuts of light oak. The middle of the table is a juxtaposition of wooden discs of which two discs extend to become table tops, one in light oak and the other in ebonised oak. The centre of the table is empty, only the upper plate is full, giving the impression of a sphere.

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100

100 is a sculptural bookcase imagined and manufactured in 2022. It is made of black stained oak and is inspired by the pine forests of Sologne. Slender, it gives the impression of having grown from the ground. At the end of each rod is a tray of different shapes more or less wide and whose underside has been carved by hand in the shape of a corolla.

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32

32 is a sculptural stool imagined and manufactured in 2020. It is rectangular in shape and is made of solid oak. It is a succession of rectangles of light wood surrounded by a black rod in ebonised oak, shaped, giving the impression of being made of metal, like a trompe l'oeil.

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