The characteristic of creations in which a designer decides not to impose any limit to his mind and let his creativity to be guided by instinct is the one of objects in which the freedom of art meets the functionality of design. This is the way Damien Gernay, young designer based in Brussels, chose to work, celebrating in his creations the paradox of the union between spontaneity and control. In Texture Cabinet for example, the object is created neutral, in white; the material, its texture, is applied only afterwords: the process is reversed and the result is amazing. The thinking also involves nature: inspired by a mushroom, the Veiled Lady lamps collection is hand-carved in a wax grid which allows to create polymorphic objects that reason on the idea of nature forced and free at the same time: what Gernay calls “organic anarchy”. And then the color, white, made functional by physical alteration, the typical blank sheet that invites to action: thanks to a sanded steel disc white turns into the Blanc Cassé mirror, whose manufacture gives back the image as reflected in a hole in the wall, imperfect as if it was painted in real time. A conceptual approach that runs out in concreteness.
