With every new edition, MAISON&OBJET PARIS selects a Designer of the Year in a bid to honor the most outstanding names in industrial and interior design worldwide. For its 2018 programme, MAISON&OBJET PARIS has chosen to celebrate the talent of Ramy Fischler.Fischler has one obsession: to never repeat himself. A taste for experimentation that began when he was studying design at ENSCI-Les Ateliers in Paris, where he graduated in 2004, and then developed while he worked alongside Patrick Jouin. The years he spent exploring all expressions of design eventually led him to establish his studio in 2011, where he then developed his own approach.Rather than focus on the formal aspects of space or product design, Fischler prefers to question the value of function: anticipating tomorrow’s behaviours, defining the reason and use of each project, visualising the environment where a piece might be effective — these are the preliminary steps in his creative process.“Generally speaking, his work is strongly influenced by cinema, a discipline which has always fascinated him. He practices design in much the same way a director makes a film. Fiction and collaborative work are the twin pillars of his process. His interior design projects for private residences and restaurants regularly give him the opportunity to design furniture, which he produces himself and shows in galleries,” says MAISON&OBJET.For Fischler, design must make sense. Originally from Belgium, the designer, who moved to Paris in 1998 and was a resident at the prestigious Villa Medici in Rome, is just as comfortable working on practical projects as he is on more conceptual ones.“As of early 2018, he is currently focusing on his work as a scenographer for the opera, which includes the set design for a version of Hamlet directed by Cyril Teste, expected to debut in December at L’Opera Comique in Paris, and an exhibition titled ‘L’Intelligence de la Main’ for the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, as part of the Homo Faber exhibition, which explores the notion of know-how, opening in September at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice,” adds MAISON&OBJET.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/                                              Founder: Louise Blouin  Read more