Anna Le Corno

One of the reasons Anna Le Corno moved from architecture to cabinetmaking is because she can express her creativity in each stage of producing an object. “I definitely benefited from my architectural work, but I realised I wanted to fully express myself from the beginning to the end of a project,” she says. After training at France’s Ecole Boulle, she founded Farouche to create contemporary fine furniture, and enjoys collaborating with a variety of artists and artisans. She emphasises the role of chance in her artistic designs and how the veining of the laser cutting can contrast and highlight the wood’s natural veining. This interplay fascinates her.

Defined by its experimental approach, the Farouche studio creates furniture and panelling ranging from unique pieces to small series. Anna uses traditional techniques to create the designs, as well as those enabled by laser-cutting technologies. The studio functions with two contrasting machines: the laser machine and the ancient press.

Working under her brand Farouche, Anna Le Corno, designer and cabinetmaker, has developed a series of contemporary wood marquetry furniture. Following her studies in architecture in Bordeaux, Barcelona and Nantes, she completed her cursus in 2011 with a project in Miami. After initially working as an architect in Paris, Anna decided to change profession for a more hands-on approach and studied cabinetmaking at Ecole Boulle, Paris. She created the Farouche studio in 2014. Anna exhibited her works in Salon Révélations des Métiers d’Art at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2016 and was awarded several prizes, including the Grand Prix de Création awarded by the city of Paris.

Pattern of Crafts Exhibition