- Guillaume Bardet -

Guillaume Bardet

France — b. 1971

Available Works

Amphora Light I - Guillaume Bardet - Table light - Galerie kreo

Guillaume Bardet

Amphora Light II - Guillaume Bardet - Table light - Galerie kreo

Guillaume Bardet

Bench 165 - Guillaume Bardet - Bench - Galerie kreo

Guillaume Bardet

Bouteille #1 - Guillaume Bardet - Vase - Galerie kreo

Guillaume Bardet

Bouteille #2 - Guillaume Bardet - Vase - Galerie kreo

Guillaume Bardet

Bouteille #3 - Guillaume Bardet - Vase - Galerie kreo

Guillaume Bardet

Bouteille #4 - Guillaume Bardet - Vase - Galerie kreo

Guillaume Bardet

Broc #1 - Guillaume Bardet - Vase - Galerie kreo

Guillaume Bardet

Biography

After having graduated from the renowned École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), Paris, in 1999, Guillaume Bardet started his career as a designer during his residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome.
There, he received a grant from the French Academy in Rome which allowed him to realize his first major project: “Mobilier Immobile”, composed of nine very large pieces in marble.
While continuing to design furniture, he began to work in the field of interior architecture and urban planning, acquiring experience that he would later pass on as a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI), in Paris, beginning in 2005...

After having graduated from the renowned École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), Paris, in 1999, Guillaume Bardet started his career as a designer during his residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome.
There, he received a grant from the French Academy in Rome which allowed him to realize his first major project: “Mobilier Immobile”, composed of nine very large pieces in marble.
While continuing to design furniture, he began to work in the field of interior architecture and urban planning, acquiring experience that he would later pass on as a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI), in Paris, beginning in 2005.

Bardet is a man of great projects.
After “Mobilier Immobile » at the Villa Medicis, Bardet embarked on his ambitious project “l’Usage des jours”: for a year, Bardet drew an object per day, and as an extension of this experience, he ensured its realization, the following year, with a dozen potters.
365 ceramic objects were thus created.
The adventure “L’Usage des jours” was praised by the Bettencourt Foundation in October 2011: Bardet received the Prize of the intelligence of the hand for his creative work.
This project has traveled throughout Europe: to Sèvres – Cité de la céramique in Sèvres, France, to the Grand-Hornu in Belgium, to the Château des Adhémar – Centre d’art contemporain in Montélimar, France, and to the Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts (Mudac) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In 2013, he began teaching at the National School of Decorative Arts (EnsAD) in Paris, and became a frequent collaborator at Hermès, designing a collection of objects for their Home Fragrance line, and becoming the Educational Director for their Foundation in 2015.
Since autumn 2015, Bardet has devoted himself fully to his project « La fabrique du présent », the first chapter of which was shown in autumn 2017 at Le Corbusier’s iconic building near Lyon, Le Couvent de la Tourette.
In April 2019, Bardet embarked on his first collaboration with Galerie kreo. The exhibition displayed a collection of pieces made entirely of bronze: a very long oblong table with uneven feet and a smooth table top, a large pendant light, a free-shaped coffee table, a slender bench, and a series of anthropomorphic stools.

In 2023, as part of the restoration of Notre-Dame, the Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Ulrich, announced the selection of Guillaume Bardet for the creation of the cathedral’s liturgical furniture. Bardet was tasked with designing five key elements: the altar, the cathedra and its associated seats, the ambo, the tabernacle, and the baptistery. The introduction of bronze into this iconic building, primarily composed of stone and stained glass, allows for the harmonious integration of these pieces within the sacred and majestic setting of Notre-Dame.

Photo credits: © Pierre Olivier Deschamps

Solo Shows

Guillaume Bardet - Guillaume Bardet
Solo Show

December 06, 2024 - January 25, 2025

Guillaume Bardet - Guillaume Bardet
Solo Show

April 18 - July 26, 2019

Group Shows

Guillaume Bardet - Design Miami / Paris 2024
Fair

October 15 - October 20, 2024

Guillaume Bardet - PAD London 2024
Fair

October 08 - October 13, 2024

Guillaume Bardet - Design Miami/ Basel 2024
Fair

June 10 - June 16, 2024

Guillaume Bardet - TEFAF New York 2024
Fair

May 09 - May 14, 2024

Guillaume Bardet - PAD Paris 2024
Fair

April 03 - April 07, 2024

Guillaume Bardet - GSTAAD ART 2024
Fair

February 16 - February 18, 2024

Guillaume Bardet - Design Miami/ Paris 2023
Fair

October 17 - October 22, 2023

Guillaume Bardet - PAD London 2023
Fair

October 10 - October 15, 2023

Guillaume Bardet - Design Miami/ Basel 2023
Fair

June 12 - June 18, 2023

Guillaume Bardet - TEFAF New York 2023
Fair

May 11 - May 16, 2023

Guillaume Bardet - PAD Paris 2023
Fair

March 29 - April 02, 2023

Guillaume Bardet - New beginnings
Group Show

January 10 - March 04, 2023

Guillaume Bardet - step by step
Group Show

September 16 - November 05, 2022

Guillaume Bardet - Design Miami/ Basel 2022
Fair

June 13 - June 19, 2022

Guillaume Bardet - TEFAF New York 2022
Fair

May 05 - May 10, 2022

Guillaume Bardet - chez soi
Group Show

April 07 - July 16, 2022

Guillaume Bardet - PAD Paris 2022
Fair

April 06 - April 10, 2022

Guillaume Bardet - 'inside'
Group Show

December 08, 2021 - April 09, 2022

Guillaume Bardet - fiac! 2021
Fair

October 20 - October 24, 2021

Guillaume Bardet - Design Miami / Basel 2021
Fair

September 20 - September 26, 2021

Guillaume Bardet - Art Paris Art Fair 2021
Fair

September 08 - September 12, 2021

Guillaume Bardet - artmonte-carlo 2021
Fair

July 15 - July 17, 2021

Guillaume Bardet - @home new chapter
Group Show

March 23 - May 08, 2021

Guillaume Bardet - @home
Group Show

December 12, 2020 - March 22, 2021

Guillaume Bardet - Lucas Ratton x kamel mennour x Galerie kreo @Paris
Off-site event

December 11, 2020 - April 01, 2021

Guillaume Bardet - 20 years
Group Show

September 25 - December 24, 2019

kreo in motion

‘kreo in motion’ is a series of short films re-imagining pieces of the gallery through the eye of talented motion designers and animators! Every month a series of 3 animations will be posted at regular intervals. Each series will be dedicated to the creative practice of a different motion designer - blank canvas to …

Bench 165 by Jake Tyas

In his third and final animation, Jake Tyas illustrates Guillaume Bardet’s 'Bronze Bench'. His hand drawn character morphs from shape to shape until finding ultimate happiness in the form of the bench.