Location: Paris, France.
Duration: Three years.
Staff: We are designer/manager Violaine Orsoni and artist/illustrator Jérémy Schneider.
Education: Schneider earned a master's degree in graphic and digital design from École Professionnelle Supérieure d’Arts graphiques et d’Architecture de la Ville de Paris.
Influences: Artworks that have crossed the times without taking a wrinkle. We are very fond of history, Renaissance painters (especially Il Caravaggio) and classical music. We aim for a timeless and elegant aesthetic in our own work.
Work environment: We are surrounded by filmmakers, architects, illustrators, authors, comedians, musicians and fashion designers in our co-working space—a large Parisian apartment in which each entity has its own room. Very often we wish we could mix with social circles outside of the arts, but you know how it is... birds of a feather flock together.
Philosophy: We have the strong belief that we should never work for something or someone that bothers us. And money never drives our choices. We always choose a project for its artistic potential; that's how we built our portfolio in the first place.
Aspirations: Jérémy hopes to carve out enough time for his personal art projects to enter the contemporary art market.
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