Artists Sophie Gailliot and Richard Pontais (Atelier C.U.B.) explore the link between usefulness and aesthetics, playing with the use of materials in unconventional ways to create contemporary accessories and furniture. Their piece titled “Désordre ordonné” is a small cabinet designed from solid maple wood and buffalo leather.

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Ting-Fen Chin (in French) is a blacksmith. Using this ancient goldsmithing technique, she creates one-piece teapots in fine silver without soldering. Her progressive hammering production process requires great patience and organization. The artist creates a connection between her hands and the metal, while trusting in the spontaneity of the resulting piece. Her unique creations combine art with functionality.

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Artist Dylan Duchet (in French) is a glassblower who finds his creative inspiration through observing emerging elements in his environment, such as shapes, contours, vibrations, spaces and colors. He immortalizes natural and digital lines in his glass works that captivate the imagination.

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Eve-Marie Laliberté (in French), a trained graphic designer, is passionate about ceramics. Pairing a casual feeling with meticulous craftsmanship comes naturally to her! She welcomes imperfections in her work just as much as the precision required to make a mold. This creative approach results in one-of-a-kind pieces in which the imprint of the gesture in the material is perfectly imperfect.

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Wood sculptures by jewelry artist Vivi Lamarre are somewhere between contemporary jewelry and wall art. She combines new technologies with artisanal assembly techniques to sensitively create geometric metaphors that address themes of connection, belonging, heritage and transformation.

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Glass blower Charlie Larouche-Potvin draws inspiration from Venetian traditions to make goblets and engage in a conversation with glass. His delicate and highly complex works are created by pairing traditional Venetian and modern techniques.
 
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The main subject of Jeanne Letourneau’s (in French) creations is the city and its environment. Through her work, the artist hopes to encourage people to question their perceptions of their surroundings. Her medium of choice is glass, which she has chosen for its transparency and ability to absorb and diffuse light, as a way of putting a filter on the world and, in so doing, seeing things differently.

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William Parent Senez (in French), a member of the luthiers’ collective La Corde, is dedicated to building high-end electric guitars. His aim is to elevate the electric guitar to a higher level than that of a manufactured object. His approach and experiments incorporate several techniques, including wood carving, the use of metallic pigments and the gilding technique.

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Sculptor Mélina Schoenborn sculpts clay bowls and vases, slowly shaping them before refining the walls with a scraper. This technique, known as “slow ceramics,” is a tribute to peacefulness and concentration in a world overloaded with stimuli.

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Through his art, glass blower Jérémie St-Onge (in French) questions the ambivalence of the vase as a functional or decorative object. By taking certain forms and concepts from ceramics and archaeological glass, he explores the role of the material blown glass plays in our spaces.

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Harry Warshaw was influenced by his mother, a talented jeweler. He chose jewelry making as his passion. He challenges conventions in jewelry design and manufacture, combining traditional and modern techniques. This creative process enables him to produce unique shapes and motifs that are conceptually rich and technically sophisticated.

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