AuchKatzStudio is a French design studio established in 2017 and composed of the visual artist Elsa Belbacha-Lardy and the space and product designer Thomas Thibout. Based on their individual principles, they aim to combine art and design in a form inspired by minerals. In a world subject to globalization, their empirical work fights against large-scale serial design. They work to sublimate the roughness and instability of their materials so as to achieve an experimental design where materials dominate and allude to both solid and fragile matter. Their designer approach is that of a sculptor. They let themselves be guided by the spontaneity of their gestures, and the design they have in mind is not the final product, but rather its starting point. Their work process is based on the colors of material and its capacity to capture the movement of light and the passing of time. AuchKatzStudio was featured in Materialité curated by Stephen Markos for Adorno’s Factory show at Paris Design Week 2021, in the Salon Premiere Classe at The Jardin des Tuileries in Paris for the Sunny Corner exhibition curated by Harold Mollet in September 2022 and in The Lake Como Design Festival 2022, at Milan Design Week 2023 curated by Artefacto for Movimento Club.
