Materials
How Polymaris creates bio-plastics from marine bacteria
A Brittany-based company specialized in marine biotechnologies, Polymaris collects, tests, selects, and cultivates seawater micro-organisms to turn them into a PHA it calls Nautilium. What's behind the sea-based technology?In Plouzané, near...
Material Connexion shortlists sustainable materials: Notpla, Karuun...
"Innovations in production processes have liberated the potential of renewable natural materials," comment Dr. Gayatri Keskar, VP of Research and Enrico Milletti, Materials Specialist at US-based Material Connexion. For a recent issue of...
Woven glass: a new frontier for luxury?
Working at the intersection of textile and glass, French craftswomen Aurélia Leblanc and Lucile Viaud have created an altogether new kind of fabric. Described as both fluid and solid, the pair dubs this new material "woven geo-glass."Glass,...
Iris Decamps, Veuve Clicquot: "We're aiming to launch Clicquot Lab in 2024"
Iris Decamps is Global Head of Product, Collection & Innovation at Veuve Clicquot. For Formes de Luxe, she details the Champagne house's packaging strategy, and how new materials are key.Veuve Clicquot regularly wins awards for its creative...
How Atelier Lucile Viaud turns shells, algae, and more, into glass
Using discarded materials, Lucile Viaud invents new glass formulas, intimately linked to the places where the raw materials were collected. Oyster and snail shells, firewood ash or smoking ash, microalgae, used diving filters... in her kiln,...
Stronger & cleaner: will LionGlass revolutionize glass packaging?
Claimed to be ten times stronger than conventional glass, while halving its carbon footprint, LionGlass, developed by the Materials Science and Engineering department at Penn State University (USA), is shaking up the glass industry. Formes...
Biocraft, Mogu, Carbonium: Cité du Design's shortlist of high-potential materials
"Instead of talking about material 'solutions’, we prefer material 'paths’, as prescribing potential applications can restrict a material’s field of possibilities", Alexandre Peutin, Head of the material library at Cité du Design of...
Studio Marianne Guély: when luxury paper has the power
Since we first featured Marianne Guély’s work in Formes de Luxe, her Parisian studio has grown in breadth and expanded its areas of expertise. Most recently, the paper artist and designer’s fascination with the natural world has given...
Pochet Group’s Xavier Gagey: "We must transform our organization if we want to be competitive"
Amid the 400th anniversary celebrations at Pochet Group, we caught up with CEO Xavier Gagey to discuss his ambitions for the group in the coming years, its financial health and how technology and new partnerships are helping forge the future...
Innovathèque curates sustainable materials to watch
"Technology transfer, breaking down barriers, using materials in new ways: sometimes it doesn’t take much for a material to give rise to new applications," Justine Rouger, Director of the FCBA Innovathèque (Technological Institute -...
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