Jean Louis Noël

We are two designers, Louis-Jean Rigal and Louis-Noël Bretonnière, working together in the design studio Jean Louis Noël. We passed an art and design diploma in 2019 at HEAR (France).

We grew up in Corrèze and Jura. These landscapes were the place of our first artistic experiences, from building tree houses to our first cairns.
Each object we create is inspired by our childhood walks in the forest and by our grandparents who farmed the land. Through our activity as designers, we wish to share these moments and sensations, both lived and passed down through generations. Our projects are like invitations to experience them.

Our design studio is specialised in the creation and manufacture of paper-made objects. We work with a two-centuries-old material called "carton-pierre". This material was used by craftsmen to create moldings and ornements for palaces or furnitures. Insprired by this tradition, we developed a contemporary version of "carton pierre", mostly composed of recycled paper.