WantedDesign Member
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Gala Espel
Product Designer and Scenographer
Gala Espel is a French architect and designer working between Paris and Tokyo. Her field of creation is rooted in research and crafts from which emerge narratives and forms investigating how to collectively rethink design. Graduated from Camondo, Paris and ECAL in Switzerland in 2022, she sets foot in Japan after winning a competition held by Le Bon Marché and studio nendo. She asserts her role on know hows the same year with the opening set design of the Chanel building dedicated to métiers d’art.
Laureate of the French Ministry of Culture call for projects, resident at Villa Albertine in New York, her international practice is imbued with a research into culture, reflecting on the long term between industry and crafts, and on the objects themselves and their relationship to mankind and to life.
Design Approach and Inspiration
Gala sees objects as points of connection between individuals. She develops a thinking where a native design can emerge from a territory through the collaboration of a network of people and the transmission of contextual local knowledge.
