Young designer Marie Dessuant will see her work headed to London soon for a showcase spot during the London Design Festival.

The chosen design, her Etagère de Coin, will be exhibited in the Ligne Roset showroom at 23-25 Mortimer Street on Wednesday 21st September from 6.30 – 9.30pm

Somewhere between furniture and micro architecture, Dessuant's corner shelf emphasises the corner, making a feature of it, and provides a place for objects to be hidden or shown according to their place in the shelf.

Rather like a cabinet of curiosities perched on top of a ladder, the stepladder creates a void, and enables quick and easy access to skim through a book, or pieces like her earlier collection, 'Objet Vagues".

According to Dessuant, the idea originates from:

"...a reflection on the space of daydreaming in everyday life (a moment where thought are free to run away and wander freely), in a western and urban context where performance, efficiency and productivity are constantly glorified."

"In my thesis titled 'Wandering in Daily Life', I made a connection between the necessity of wasteland in the city, and the feeling induced by wandering through those specific spaces, with daydreaming in the domestic space. I wondered about the importance and the use of those moments both in the urban and domestic space, and what triggers them.

The idea of vagueness, parenthesis, break and space-between are the main concept that came out of this study and I used them to create the collection Objets Vagues. In this collection, I am really interested in boundaries left in objects, in areas of hesitation and in-between spaces allowing the viewer to make his/her own interpretation of the object.

Moving away from classical functions and typologies, those objects introduce doubt in the user’s mind. They become stepping-stones or gaps towards mind wandering. Not in an obvious or straightforward way, but in a more subtle way, like the hidden side of the object."

A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in product design, Marie was awarded the Cinna-Ligne Roset design award “Révélateur de Talents” for the étagère de Coin, which is now produced by Cinna - Ligne Roset.

Currently Marie is resident as product designer for Fabrica in Italy.