AuchKatzStudio

AuchKatzStudio is a French design studio created in 2017 and composed of visual artist Elsa Belbacha-Lardy and space and product designer Thomas Thibout. Based on their individual principles, they aim to combine art and design in a form inspired by minerals. 

In a world subject to globalization, their empirical work fights against large-scale serial design. They work to sublimate the roughness and instability of their materials in order to arrive at an experimental design where the materials dominate and allude to both solid and fragile matter. 

Their designer approach is that of a sculptor since they carve their block of polystyrene as one would carve a stone. They let themselves be guided by the spontaneity of their gestures, and the design they have in mind is not the final product, but rather its starting point. Their work process is based on the colors of the material and its ability to capture the movement of light and the passage of time.