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INNOVATIONS

Our artworks integrate R&D to achieve personal unexpected materialist effects full of poetry, high qualitative sustainable standards. 
When Digital meets High-End Handcraft : 
Laureate of  WORTH PROJECT PARTNERSHIP 2018 : AWARDED with dutch industrial designer, studio Bas Froon.
Very Proud to be awarded for the second time by Worth Project Partnership 2018, after Worth Project Pilote 2014
together with Boulezar , a German creative fashion brand.
Our sustainable and locally producted design project, using  disruptive technics by mixing recycled and bio sourced fibers (recycled Jeans fibers, leftover Texel Wool, PLA from beetroot and corn starch ) with in-house digital manufacturing processes (laser and micro heating) and high-end handcrafted manipulations (with self prepared eco-friendly paint binder)  is now achieved.
It has been successfully exhibited at Milan Design Week 2019 at Superstudio Piu.  
The "Cloudy" aesthetic and puffy arty effect combine with sustainable materials and conception is unique in the field of acoustic products.  This development can be adapted for bespoken projects.
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EGGSHELL by GENEVIEVE LEVIVIER®
Last innovation and R&D of the studio, this bran new original material answers to many ethical questions of how to produce and offer customers sustainable local fashion and design products. Create as a prototype for 'Textifood' exhibition dedicated to textile innovation taking into account the left-over of the agro-alimentary sector, 'EGGSHELL by Geneviève LEVIVIER® is now a trade mark range of products, pieces of art & design made within circular economy. R&D is going on to achieve next remarquable steps...
Contact us for unique made to measure EGGSHELL projects.
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AWARDED :
- INNOVATIVE GRANT OF WALLOON REGION
- FINALIST OF TROPHEES INCIDENCE FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY 2018
launched by Province of Walloon Brabant

SELECTED and EXHIBITED at:
UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION MILANO 2015
at OFFICIAL PAVILLON OF FRANCE

'TEXTIFOOD - FUTUROTEXTILES' call of Project
curated by Lille3000,  and exhibited at
- PALAZZO DELLE STELLINE, Milan
​- MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Lille

​60 WALLOON INNOVATIONS 2017
curated by Innovatech Belgium


PUBLISHED IN :
- TEXTIFOOD - LILLE 3000 Catalogue
- CUALIDA SENSORIALES y TECNICAS DE LOS MATERIALES  ML Corradetti et A-L-M Rodriguez; 
publication universitaire des Beaux-Arts et d’Architecture de Teneriffe, 2016
- 60 WALLOON INNOVATIONS 2017, Catalogue by Innovathech
 

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FEATURED IN :
Many specialized magazines, newspapers, website, TV and radio reports
​(See PRESS section) ...

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SUPPLE MARBLE 2014
Always looking to create new visual and tactile surprisingly sustainable material, the studio was honored to answer positively, with its ©SUPPLE MARBLE,  to the French Innovathèque call of exhibition 'SO FLEX'.
©SUPPLE MARBLE  is a range of incredibly supple and soft , but resistant, textiles made of real MARBLE, eco-friendly polymer and natural fibers. Its in-depth marble's pattern reproduce faithfully the marble's veins effects, in a range of natural marble colors. 
Contact us for unique made to measure ©SUPPLE MARBLE projects.
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EXHIBITED at :

'SO FLEX' 2014, exhibition dedicated to innovative surprising supple materials, curated by Innovathèque, Paris.

Mathériauthèque of  Innovathèque, Paris.

​50 WALLOON INNOVATIONS 2016 
curated by Innovathèque Belgium


PUBLISHED IN:

'SO FLEX' Catalogue by Innovathèque Paris

50 WALLOON INNOVATIONS 2016 Catalogue
​by Innovathèque Belgium​

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LASER LACE 2014
With a specific in-house laser cutting and digital disruptive know-how, the studio archieves the finest and original designs on wood, silk, and other natural fibers or materials, without any burning side effect. By combining high-end handcrafted manipulations, with digital artistic developments, Geneviève Levivier reinvent what industrial process means and can achieve in a local way of slow sustainable production. 
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AWARDED :
FINALIST OF THEOPHILE LEGRAND INNOVATIVE PRIZE OF TEXTILE - launched by Institut de France. ​

EXHIBITED at:
- A MATERIA DAS NUVENS - MuBe Musée de la sculpture de Sao Paulo, Brésil.
- LA MATIERE dES NUAGES - Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles à Paris.
- MAISON D'EXCEPTIONS 2014
curated by Première Vision Paris.


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​PUBLISHED IN:

'A MATERIA DAS NUVENS' Catalogue by WBDM

TULLE & LACE GLAZE​ 2011
​Working During 10 years for the most renowned Couture Houses, the studio did experimented continuously to achieve perfection in creation and innovation . The most delicate and refined silk tulle could been transformed by incredible eco-friendly light shiny glazes...
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AWARDED :
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LAUREATE AT CREATIVE BOOST-UP  launched by Walloon Region and Wallonie Design. 

EXHIBITED at:

- METAMORPHOSES - Innovative Materials
curated by SPI , Belgium.
- MAISON D'EXCEPTIONS 2013
curated by Première Vision Paris.
- MAISON D'EXCEPTIONS 2014

curated by Première Vision Paris.


POLYMER LACE 2008
The story of the studio begon in 2008 with the Polymer Lace, adopted by one of the most renowned parisien Couture House for its PE 2009 Fashion Show and collections. This 3D effect eco-friendly polymer lace, took 2 years of R&D to achieve delicacy, suppleness , softness , and non allergenic skin applications... In parallel to her Polymer Lace creations dedicated to Couture Houses, Geneviève Levivier created large format Polymer Tapestries, international exhibited.
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AWARDED :
LAUREATE AT DESIGN BIENNAL OF LIEGE 2008
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launched by Walloon Region and Wallonie Design. 

SELECTED and EXHIBITED at:
- TRIENNALE DI MILANO 2013 -
​BELGIUM IS DESIGN
- HONG-HONG DESIGN WEEK 2014 - BELGIUM IS DESIGN
- MAISON D'EXCEPTIONS 2013

launched by Première Vision Paris.
- DESIGN BIENNAL OF LIEGE 2008

- PE 2009 PARISIAN FASHION SHOW

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​PUBLISHED and FEATURED IN :

'TEXTILES, Innovations et Matières Actives' , a book from Florence BOST et Guillermo CROSETTO; éditions EYROLLES.
Design magazines, newspapers...

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  • Home
  • OVERVIEW
  • CONTACT
  • ABOUT
    • THE STUDIO
    • Innovations
    • Presse
  • ARTWORKS
    • IN SITU VILLERS-LA-VILLE/ EGGSHELL ALCHEMY
    • IN SITU MUSEE VAN BUUREN / SYNESTHESIA
    • INSTALLATION/ SYNESTHESIA
    • EGGSHELL ALCHEMY ARTWORKS
    • Eggshell Tapestries artworks
    • Wood Lace artworks >
      • ARTWORKS
  • HIGH-END DESIGN
    • Polymer Tapestries
    • Objects
  • HAUTE COUTURE
    • STOLES - SCARVES
    • Polymer Lace
    • Handmade Weaving
    • Textile Marble
    • Laser Lace