BIOGRAPHY
Jean-Baptiste Fastrez is a french designer, born in 1984. In 2010, he graduated from ENSCI / Les Ateliers de Paris with honors. After collaborating for three years with Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the designer opens his own studio in 2011 where he focuses on different product and space projects in limited editions and industrial design. Fastrez has been designing for different brands and his notable collaborations are with the Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat, the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Sèvres / Cité de la céramique, the glass research center Cirva in Marseille, the French brand Moustache and the Paris based design gallery Galerie kreo. His work has been presented in various thematic exhibitions at VIA in Paris, at Mudac in Lausanne, at Grand Hornu in Belgium and at Museum of Art in Seoul. Fastrez won several prizes: with his projects “Variations upon an electric kettle” and “Tomahawks hair dryer”, he won the 2011 Grand Prix du Jury of Design Parade 6 in Villa Noailles (Hyères, France). In 2019, he also won the Grand prix de la création de la ville de Paris.His works are part of the permanent collections of the Center Pompidou and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris and Bordeaux, the Villa Noailles in Hyères as well as of the collection of the CNAP (Comité National des Arts Plastiques).
ACQUISITIONS & DISTINCTIONS
2023
Acquisition of the Zodiac mirror, Colapasta numerica colander and Alppa, Qucha, Pacha vases by the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, France.
2022
Member of the AD100 ranking in Paris, France.
2021
Member of the AD100 ranking in Paris, France.
2020
Acquisition of the Yatari arc and the Rainbow fighter rug by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Member of the AD100 ranking in Paris, France.
2019
Winner of the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris.
Member of the AD100 ranking in Paris, France.
Acquisition of the OLO lamp, the Alppa, Qucha, Pacha vase collection, and the Venice glasses by CNAP, Paris, France.
2018
The Egypt vases edited by the Kreo gallery were selected as the topic for the Art Applied Aggregation dissertation.
2017
Acquisition of the OLO lamp by the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, France.
Acquisition of the OLO lamp by the Musée des Arts décoratifs et du design in Bordeaux, France.
Acquisition of the Scarabée vase by the Musée des Arts décoratifs et du design in Bordeaux, France.
2016
Acquisition of the Scarabée vase by the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, France.
Winner of the Grand Prix Stratégies du Design 2016 in the young designer category, Paris, France.
2015
Winner of the Wallpaper Design Award for the Scarabée vase, London, United Kingdom.
2014
Acquisition of the Inuit Mirror from the Mask Mirrors collection by CNAP, Paris, France.
Acquisition of the Tomahawk hairdryer collection, the Variation autour d’une bouilloire électrique collection, and the Queztalcoalt Hammock by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2011
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Design Parade 6.
These acquisitions and distinctions represent the designer or artist’s accomplishments and recognition over the years.