Anton Laborde

Anton Laborde is a cabinetmaker based in Bordeaux, France. His creations are the result of the meeting between art and cabinet making. Inspired by artists such as Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) and Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), Anton Laborde creates paintings and functional objects with wood, in soft and shimmering colors. 

His latest series of works entitled 'Indian Revolution' evokes a lost paradise. It is inspired by landscapes, feelings and memories of the artist's childhood, spent in India when he lived there with his parents. His visual universe calls for reverie, and provokes comfort and appeasement. 

Anton Laborde revives marquetry in a contemporary way, just as the modernists Jean-Michel Frank and André Groult did in their time. But like Jean-Michel Frank's monochrome geometric patterns or Jean Royere's scattered inlays, Anton Laborde creates lush dreamscapes that are both intricate and minimalist with ingenuous colors and bold strokes.

After four years of training with the Companions of the Tour de France and a stint with Irish designer Joseph Walsh, Anton Laborde established his studio in 2020 in Bordeaux. He is the winner of several awards including in 2017 that of the companions, in 2018 the national prize of the Concours Général des métiers (CGM), or in 2018 the regional and departmental prize of the Rotary Club. In 2022, he is one of the winners of the Prix de la Jeune Création Ateliers d'art de France.