Medulla enters the Elysee Palace
On September 14, 2022, at the Elysée Palace, the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the new table for the Cabinet Room, Medulla, designed in 2020 by four award-winning ensaama students in Product Design: Etienne Bordes, Misia Moreau, Lucille Poous and Julien Roos.
Described by the President as ‘France’s backbone’, the connected, fibre-reinforced concrete table took shape with the support of the Mobilier national and 11 companies all over the country. President Macron also underlined the importance of design, which projects a new vision of a reinvented France for 2030.
Medulla won first Prize ‘Mobilier national -Jeune Création’ for furniture ensemble in 2020. The competition included 22 projects, 162 students from 5 Parisian Colleges of Art and Design. It was organised by the Mobilier National, the institution in charge of the furniture of the French Republic's national heritage worldwide, in partnership with Campus des Métiers d'Art & Design - Manufacture des Gobelins under the aegis of Académie de Paris and Région Île-de-France.
The jury paid special attention to:
- innovation of materials and experimental research in prototypes;
- ability to source the different materials;
- modular and robust structure, easy to transport and disassemble;
- various lighting and digital connections.
The table was designed by ensaama - Olivier de Serres Product Design students under the supervision of their Design mentors Richard Devinast, Jean-Michel Policar, and Christophe THÉLISSON.
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