Eloge du pépin is a large fruit bowl made in Albisola mare ceramic factory in Italy.
The Belgian design edition is curated by Marino Fermi and Giovanna Massoni.

Material /

Ceramic / 18 k moulded golden seed.

Dimension /

D50 x H8 cm.

Design /

Jean-François D'Or.

Edition /

The Gallery / Limited edition / 2 pieces signed by designer & Albisola factory.

Price /

Contact us to get prices and delivery time.

Selected /

Not just a bowl of Cherries - Exhibition - Galerie Sofie Lachaert.

Pictures © Julien Renault.

The details are not the details. They make the design, said Charles Eames. Design is above all the critical observation of experiences and human activities, close up and from a distance. The role of the designer is to create useful and manageable interfaces that facilitate and enrich our relation with daily life, by means of more or less fixed criteria: Aesthetics, functionality and ethics. The intimate and the personal are transposed into simplified forms at the boundary of abstraction: This combination brings accessible and universal codes into life. 
Readable through experience, the design of Jean-François D’Or is almost a tactile language. The ergonomics of the object and an intuitive functionality are the strong points in a search for democratic based solutions. 

Here, the demos is more present that ever, as Jean-François is a learned but humble mediator: The designer is never a creator in the divine sense of the term, but rather an interpreter, a facilitator and a communicator of solutions. 
The result is a new generation of everyday utensils: Intelligent, fair, calibrated and sufficiently elementary such that everybody can appropriate them. He has an etymological regard on the object and its usage. Logic comes into play to deconstruct and reconstruct a meaning. 
The starting point is always on a small scale, observation and experience anchored in everyday life. The arrival point is the experience of the object, which flourishes harmoniously during usage. 

Ingenious and poetic, the solutions contained in the purified and modular forms are always multiple: A stool is not only a means of sitting down; a mirror is not just a device that reflects our image… Less is more? Undoubtedly, but here the more is also something else: The unexpected, the surprise, and playfulness.

By Giovanna Massoni.