The Martell Foundation focuses on the making of artistic work and is not dedicated to own or show an art collection in the traditional sense of the word. Year after year, the Foundation commissions permanent pieces of art to craftsmen, designers and artists, it exhibits them in different areas of the building. These woks welcome, inspire the visitor and lighten the building.

Guillaume Bardet achieves the second furniture commission for the Do workshops, which will take place on the first floor of the building.

“La Cène is the first chapter of a current project: La Fabrique du présent (The Making of present). After Le Mobilier immobile (the motionless furniture) and L’usage des jour (Use of the days), La Fabrique du present came to my mind as the perfect space to question this specifically human shivering, shivering which makes human beings so radically singular because of the consciousness they have to shudder. What make us humain beings if not what makes us tremble? Use of the days taught me that the poetry in an object often emerge out of its flawed shivering.
Use of present is the desire to design objects as powerful as their sketches. Its speed, efficiency and its paradox. Wax makes it possible. As I imagine these cast-bronze sketch-objects, I try to give life to a local and powerful universe. Fragile and yet permanent. From marble to ceramic up to bronze, with the history of materials, the way looked obvious. Bronze has the marble strength, its mass, its weight, and at the same time the ceramic easy use, thanks to the was in which forms appear. The bronze reveals marble and earth.”

Guillaume Bardet