For two years, designer and sculptor Guillaume Bardet worked on creating new pieces of liturgical furniture commissioned by the Archbishop of Paris for Notre Dame Cathedral. This book recounts the human and artistic adventure of this extraordinary project.
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For two years, designer and sculptor Guillaume Bardet worked on creating new pieces of liturgical furniture commissioned by the Archbishop of Paris for Notre Dame Cathedral. This book recounts the human and artistic adventure of this extraordinary project.
As Notre Dame prepares to celebrate its first anniversary since reopening after the devastating fire that ravaged it in 2019, Guillaume Bardet, designer and sculptor, opens the doors to his studio, where he created the new liturgical furnishings commissioned by the Archbishop of Paris: baptistery, tabernacle, altar, ambo, cathedra, and liturgical objects.
This book recounts the human and artistic adventure of an extraordinary project. Guillaume Bardet opens up about his creative process, his doubts, his joys, and the intensity he experienced during this year of work. All these stages, photographed by Pierre-Olivier Deschamps, from the first sketches to the installation and consecration in Notre-Dame, are presented throughout these pages in a magnificent photographic collection. A book that takes us into the history of world heritage.
An exceptional human and artistic adventure.
Preface by Monsignor Laurent Ulrich
With the collaboration of Catherine Gatineau, Father Maxime Deurbergue, Laurent Prades, Laurence Nobécourt, Brother Marc Chauveau, and Emmanuelle Mougne
Data sheet
- Number of pages
- 156
- Size
- 24,5 x 28,5 cm
- ISBN
- 978-2-36306-365-6
- Technique
- Hardcover
- Publication date
- 2025
Bardet (Guillaume)
Guillaume Bardet began to draw as a child... an activity that he continues to this day. On paper tablecloths, newspapers, serviettes, sketch pads. Guillaume Bardet experiments with forms. Just as Guillaume Bardet used to back in Rouen, where he was born in 1971 and where he lived until the age of 15. After moving to Paris, Guillaume Bardet continued to draw, was extremely bored at school, took clay modelling classes and dreamed of quitting high school to devote himself to his true passion. Guillaume Bardet was less than impressed with his first year at architecture school. But when he enrolled at the École supérieure des Arts décoratifs (Graduate school of decorative arts) in1993, Guillaume Bardet knew that he had found his true niche. Once the bad boy of the class, Guillaume Bardet was now one of the top students. And with good reason: Guillaume Bardet was fascinated by and took delight in everything. It was here than Guillaume Bardet met Jean-Marie Massaud with whom he began to collaborate very soon after leaving the École supérieure. Then Guillaume Bardet decided to become self employed. The Académie de France scholarship in Rome, which Guillaume Bardet won in 2002, enabled him to develop his first major project entitled "Mobilier immobile", nine pieces in marble – in itself out of the ordinary – exhibiting these at the galerie Yves Gastou on his return from the Villa Médicis. While continuing to design furniture, Guillaume Bardet began to work on interior design projects and on urban furniture. In 2005 Guillaume Bardet began to teach, passing on his wealth of experience as project director at the École nationale supérieure de création industrielle de Paris (Ensci). In 2007, Guillaume Bardet left the French capital, settling with his wife and son in the Drôme region, where he had spent his childhood holidays. For many years Guillaume Bardet had been aware that one day he would come back to clay, a material he has always enjoyed working with so much. And this is how he finally found the time to throw himself into this race against the clock that will become "Recording the Days"... a true creative challenge. Two years have gone by, 365 pieces have been created. Guillaume Bardet was born in 1971 in Rouen (France). He lives and works in Dieulefit in the Drôme area of France. Website: www.usagedesjours.com
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