Le préhistorique, 2018

Camille Piaton  

Biography

Camille Piaton was born in 1980 in Alès in the Gard.
At the age of 31, she embarked on the realization of a fantasy that has always been anchored in her: cabinet making. She does two internships in order to have a first approach to the profession. One allows him to study carpentry and the other to discover, at the Atelier de Guigue, candle painting, cracked paint, faux marble, patina and stain. In 2012, and after an arduous selection, she was accepted into the cabinetmaking training of the Boulle School. In addition to general training (one year full-time), it completes this learning with 4 modules: contemporary finishes, traditional finishes, Computer Aided Design and finally marquetry. In 2013 she obtained her CAP. From 2013 to 2015 Camille Piaton is handmade. She buys furniture, restores them and creates a facing for them. In 2015 she launched her activity. She was quickly noticed by the local press. In 2017, she obtained the first Prize for Crafts from the Rotary Club of Saint Jean-de-Luz. She works for individuals, decorators and interior designers.

Artistic approach

Much of Camille Piaton's work is based on research into existing structures (seats, tables, chests). It is then a question of finding the balance between the spirit of the old piece of furniture and the renewal that it instills in it by restoring and decorating it in order to register it in our contemporaneity.
Camille Piaton's pieces have a strong presence. Each element taken on its own has a very particular temperament: hardware representing a scene from mythology, crocodile leather or antiqued animal horn… It is then a question of seeking the right balance, of knowing how to stop.
We look at the designer pieces as much as we use them. They have a fascinating side, an almost human presence undoubtedly due to the use of objects from fauna and flora. The artist seeks this existence.
She composes her work as one would compose a painting: such and such an accident takes her to another place, such a color induces the use of another material ... It sometimes takes several weeks for her to walk on a work and reach maturity.
Her work is easily identifiable by the leather weaving work that she implements both on furniture and wall cladding. Likewise, she uses stabilized plants in her creations.