(In)formal conversations

Thierry de Beaumont
Author, journalist, teacher


For the maiden run, Mathilde Bretillot steps into the breach with Parades, a proposal that embraces the venture intimately. She has developed her own ‘manner’, blending experience and intuition. This is what is known as talent, a concept that may seem outdated but which remains vital.
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Mathilde Bretillot

Catherine Ferbos-Nakov
Independent Curator


With Mathilde Bretillot, things spill over, interlace, overlap, cross-fertilize: family, teaching, French, Italian and English friends, objects, travels, home-based and international projects. This is because all the different facets of her life are important to her, and because she interacts with the people around her, for whom she has created space that is open, moving, changing, friendly, playful and above all innovative.
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People / Projects / Objects

Catherine Ferbos-Nakov
Independent Curator


Rounded shapes, pierced through, stretched, emptied out, circles of colour or of silver, the
roundnessof a bread basket or the seats at the Top Cloud restaurant in Seoul, the round forms of a little chair or a Sèvres vase and then in counterpoint the lines of the contemporary escritoire desk, so delicate that they seem to fly away; the dreamy "wondrous clouds" of her lamp-shade or the infinitely discreet, finely adjusted indispensable presence of her interior architecture or her scenographies - every piece of Mathilde Bretillot's work fixes our gaze, forces us to ask questions: they challenge us.
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