Fabien Barrero-Carsenat’s independent design mixes old and modern styles to create symbolic pieces inspired by ancient tribes and made of rough materials. Marble, ceramic and wood are mixed all together to produce sort of an artwork to be admired and understood. The Host & the Guest for instance is a urn reflecting the green sustainable side of cremation, which is still widely common in US (41%), UK (71%) and Japan (98%). Fabien goes beyond the usual ‘death taboo’ by underlining the tribal conception of death which is not meant to be an end but just a bridge that leads to omnipresence, like the Mayas said.

Au bonheur retrouvé is a minimalistic case to symbolically hold each of the owner’s memories. It consists in an elm wood smooth cube which can be open only by using a pencil, to reveal the white sand on the inside, to be explored with one hand. The third project is Vuoristo table, whose name is after the icelandic equivalent of ‘mountain’: its conical forms reminds of mountain tops, the relieves recall volcanic rocks whilst the asymmetric shapes symbolically play with the regularity of Nordic landscape.

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