Edifice Collection
Collectible design
2023
Available
Since 2018, the design studio aequo.design, based in Roubaix, has built its image around brick, an emblematic material of its region. This construction element, a priori without much aesthetic interest, turns out to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Tim Defleur and Arthur Lenglin, the founders and designers of the studio. In parallel with the daily work of a design agency (object & space), aequo.design experiments with brick in all possible ways. By pushing the limits of the material, this creative approach invites us to take a new look at brick. In 2022, the CID Grand Hornu invites aequo.design to present a retrospective of its work and research on brick during the exhibition “La Brique Hors les Murs”
In 2023, aequo.design presents a new collection called EDIFICE. This collection of furniture features stacks of bricks held together by a tie system - a technique borrowed from architecture before 1900.
The diversity of shapes and graphics of the different bricks used and the way they are assembled create miniature architectures similar to typical buildings in different parts of the world even if the brick are strictly locals.
pictures ©Studio.b.helle