ABOUT-

Sophia Taillet is a designer, graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and the School of Visual Arts in New York, USA.

Her practice focuses on the exploration of materials as a trigger for the imagination. She approaches her objects as sculptural forms, guided by intuition and enriched by personal experience. From steel to glass, her collections seek to reveal the intrinsic properties of each material.

In 2018, her Helik light, made of flexible steel, was exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. That same year, she created a series of suspended furniture pieces for the Palais de Tokyo titled Le Temps Suspendu (Suspended Time).

Thanks to the FRAC Auvergne, she undertook a six-month residency in 2019 at a glassmaking center in Yzeure, France, where she developed an immersive collection of glass furniture.

In 2021, she presented a geological stratum totem for the Versailles Architecture Biennale, in collaboration with the Institut d'Urbanisme Paris Région, as part of a larger research project.

From 2022 to 2023, she was a laureate of Mondes Nouveaux, a program supported by the French Ministry of Culture. Within this framework, she initiated a transdisciplinary project combining design, choreography, sound, and craftsmanship. Titled Du geste artisanal au geste chorégraphique ("From craft gesture to choreographic gesture"), the work and installation “ Time Erosion” was presented as a performance at Fondation Pernod Ricard in 2022.

As part of this same program, she is currently in residence at the CIRVA – Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques, continuing her exploration of glass in dialogue with movement and space.

In the design field, she created the Vénus luminaire, co-published with Galerie 13desserts, exhibited at Milan Design Week, collectible Fair and Maison & Objet, and now part of collection officielle of Mobilier National.

She continues this exploration with Spinning Around, a project that merges installation and performance, premiering at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature during Paris Design Week 2025. An exclusive collectible version of Spinning Around will also be released for the opening of the Grand Palais boutique.

In 2026, she will be in residence at Villa Albertine in New York, as a winner of their prestigious international residency program.

2026 - Laureate of the Villa Albertine Residency in New York

2025

Spinning Around installation at the Musée de la Chasse during Paris Design Week.

Acquisition of the Spinning Around installation by the Emerige Foundation.

Exclusive collection created for the opening of the Grand Palais boutique.

2024

“Venus light” enter in the mobilier national collection of France.

award le french design 100 - Maison & objet, Paris

2023

Residency at CIRVA & Mondes nouveaux

Grant & residency- Fondation Verrecchia

2021-2022 Grant - Mondes nouveaux- Ministère de la culture France

2019 Grant - Frac auvergne Rhône-Alpes - Glass Residency

2018 Grant - du Centre culturel européen et de la fondation GAA pour VENICE DESIGN -Pallazio Michiel - During the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

2017 Grant - Fondation Bettencourt schueller - Meseinthal

Sophia Taillet

sophia.taillet@gmail.com

+33 6 16 05 66 00 

@sophia__taillet