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Marie-Marie Defour is an object, furniture, and space designer working between Lyon and Paris. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2018.

Her practice explores the relationship between objects and their users, with a focus on openness and adaptability. She creates engaging, modular pieces that invite interpretation and encourage people to develop their own ways of using them.

A strong sensitivity to materials, combined with an attention to their origin and transformation, lies at the heart of her approach.

In 2019, she was finalist of the 14th International Design Festival at Villa Noailles, where she showcased three low-tech, heating objects. In 2024, she won the First Prize for the Cinna design prize. Since 2020, she has been teaching at STRATE School of Design, contributing to the future of design.