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<p><span style="font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Guillaume Guinet is an experienced innovative artist who specializes in sculptor, a perfectionist, whose art is a reflection of today’s world.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;" /><span style="font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Originally from the Dauphiné region in south-east France, he moved to Lyon at the age of 4. Son of a family in the silk industry, Guillaume has been immersed in the textile environment since his childhood, which gave him his passion for the material and his expertise in the manufacturing process.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;" /><span style="font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;">He complemented his knowledge and experience with references learned during his studies at « Beaux Arts de Saint Etienne » and today, as an artist, knows how to work, turn and transform material into works of art. During his education, Guillaume exhibited his first creations at the VIA Gallery (Valorisation of Innovation in Furnishing) in Paris.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;" /><span style="font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Following his studies, Guillaume started a research and experimentation program with innovative textures such as fiberglass and carbon. He started producing his first pieces in 2007, focused on the development of unique pieces and small series.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;" /><span style="font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Through his collection of contemporary weather vanes, Guillaume presents a series of works in colored fiberglass and aluminum. A universe that plays with our perception between tension, lightness <g class="gr_ gr_51 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="51" data-gr-id="51">and</g> </span><span style="font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;">balance.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;" /><span style="font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;">In his lighting series entitled « Cobicylindre », « Carbocylindre » and « Luscylindre », Guillaume puts into perspective pieces of a remarkable fineness of assemble, underlined by the innovative use of carbon, which he uses in interaction with light.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;" /><span style="font-family: futurapt-book-webfont, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Absolute artist, Guillaume designs and produces all of his creations in his workshop in Lyon, mastering the entire production chain, with a twinkle in this eye and a nod to his families heritage. His creations are accomplished works, cemented in contemporary art.</span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: bold;">G44 collection </span></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">It all started from a simple observation: nowadays, only exceptional furniture can claim to match the quality of pieces from yesteryear, but their sometimes out-of-fashion lines have more difficulty integrating into our interiors. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">Often, in our search for furniture for the gallery, we come across this type of out-of-date pieces. Made from noble woods such as elm, oak, walnut, or mahogany, they have the patina of 'me, the charm of their history. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">We then took on the challenge of giving them a second wind and offering them a new life by shaping them in the image of our 21st-century needs while taking advantage of the excellence of the previous century, with the help of our team: cabinetmakers and art restorers partners. </span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: bold;">Noble materials </span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">Overproducing of furniture has led to a drastic drop in quality in recent decades. Trees were cut too early to meet the growing demand for raw material and a greatly reduced drying time contributed to a loss of wood density and less 'tight and even grain. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">It is therefore with this knowledge of the material, and in the footsteps of Piet Hein Eek, George Nakashima, or even Alexandre Noll, that we carefully choose old furniture, particularly tables, in order to recover the wood to create new pieces. </span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: bold;">The know-how of craftsmen </span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">Thanks to his network of sources, David searches for and selects the pieces which are then transformed in the very heart of the Galerie 44 workshop, by our two cabinetmakers Maxime and Clément. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">Drawing on their years of experience in the restoration of the gallery's most beautiful art furniture, they put all their know-how to work in creating these exceptional pieces. </span></p>
<span face="Calibri" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">They reinvent and shape this old furniture in the image of our clients, individuals and decorators, alongside Lola. In charge of sales for 8 years, she is the strong link between the workshop and customers. She knows their needs and expectations; large coffee tables to furnish living rooms like our Lyre coffee table, stools to add a brutalist touch to the decoration with our Monolithe model, or even oversized consoles, for rooms with large volumes, like the Tau console.</span></span></div>
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<h2><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: bold;">Exceptional Furniture </span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">Each element made in our workshops is a unique piece. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">We indeed offer several possibilities for tailor-made manufacturing of our line presented on Galerie 44: choice of wood species used (elm, oak, ash, walnut or mahogany) and finish (natural wood varnish or gold, dark stamp or black). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">The pieces are then created in our workshop, upon ordering, within approximately one month, and marked with our G44 hallmark to ensure traceability and quality. It is also possible to make serial production.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">Our first G44 collection is made up of tables and stools as well as a sideboard and a console, with names evoking ancient Greece. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">The curved lines of our Olympia coffee table thus echo the shape of the stands of the Olympic Games on the Peloponnese peninsula, while the Hadrian console is inspired by the arch of the same name, a monument erected in Athens in honor of the Roman emperor during his visit to Greece. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri';">Inspired by the world of fashion, certain pieces are dressed by our upholsterers with a quilted cushion in fabric from our partner publishers, as a nod to the antique columns found at the Gallo-Roman theater in Lyon where we carried out the photo shoot of our collection.</span></p>
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