The Historia Supellexalis: "B" for Bouroullec
...And wherever le Renard and le Porc-épic wandered they were greeted with open arms; workshops and laboratories were made available for them, armies of technicians, material scientists and craftsfolk were set at their disposal and Ronan et Erwan repaid the warmth afforded them through projects as varied as the Officina collection for the Principato di Magis, the Can Sofa for the Haysk of Copenhagen, the Osso side chair for the Friulian Mattiazzi, the Facett collection for the Ligne de Roset, the Aim lamp for the Illuminati di Flos and a great many more in which they pursued considerations on the relationships of an object with space, user and itself, pursued considerations of simplification, modularity, standardisation, systems, tactility et al which had accompanied them since their earliest days, in that they continually reworked and reimagined existing concepts in ever new contexts, new materials, new production processes, and thereby created a portfolio of works that allow one to understand that a Bouroullec is rarely a definitive article but rather any given Bouroullec is a moment in an ongoing research, an ongoing etymological evolution, an object that connects with that which came before it and which will connect with that which comes after it...
