红人 | PANTER&TOURRON：探索设计、技术和社会的交汇点

Who is PANTER&TOURRON？

PANTER&TOURRON

PANTER&TOURRON由意大利设计师Stefano Panterotto和法国设计师Alexis Tourron共同创立，是一家位于瑞士洛桑的设计和咨询工作室。Stefano和Alexis将简单作为一种奢侈的工具，旨在通过创造空间、身份、展览、活动和性能产品，将设计带入普通人的生活。他们致力于研究新的形式代码和视觉体验，探索设计、技术和社会的交汇点。

PANTER&TOURRON目前主要与品牌合作，在产品设计、空间设计、创意指导和咨询方面提供商业作品或设计研究，合作的品牌方包括Airbnb、Balenciaga、Hermès等。

Q&A

设计巨蛋DDx × PANTER&TOURRON

You met while studying at ECAL and have been working together since 2015. What made you decide to work together, and how would you say Panter & Tourron has progressed over the years?

你们是在 ECAL 学习时认识的，并从 2015 年开始一起工作。请问是什么让你们决定一起工作，你认为Panter & Tourron 这些年的进展如何？

We firstly collaborated on a project while studying at the MAS in Luxury and Craftsmanship program at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland, but was only at the end of the year and thanks to the fact that we were both awarded with the scholarship offered by the school (usually handed to one student only) that we decided to start a long term collaboration as a studio.

我们在瑞士洛桑的ECAL的MAS in Luxury and Craftsmanship项目学习时第一次合作了一个项目，但直到年底，由于我们都获得了学校提供的奖学金（通常只给一个学生），我们才决定作为一个工作室开始长期的合作。

MINGARDO

How similar or how different your individual styles are? If you weren't working together, what would be the characteristics of each of your brands?

你们各自的风格是相似还是不同的呢？如果你们不在一起工作，那么你们各自的品牌会有什么特点？

Alexis and I come from different design backgrounds, Italian and French, both characterized by a very present architectural and design estethic, but we believe that like many colleagues of our generation (and the one after) we distanced ourselves from those imprints embracing a cross-cultural “post-internet” visual approach, driven more by material research, common visual references and technology driven innovation more then a common “national” visual language.

亚历克西斯和我来自不同的设计背景，分别是意大利和法国，并都是以目前的建筑和设计理念为特征。但我们相信，与我们这一代（和后一代）的许多同事一样，我们与这些印记保持距离，拥抱一个跨文化的 "后互联网 "视觉方法，更多的是由材料研究、共同的视觉参考和技术驱动的创新，而不是一个共同的 "国家 "视觉语言。

KIT

Going through with our studies and practice we develop a new vision for what we think “luxury” design is nowadays, shifting from the outdated and exclusive nature of it and reinterpreting it as a conscious choice of quality over quantity, crafting experiences and products that are unique in term of materiality, expression, durability and ultimately sustainability.

通过我们的研究和实践，我们对当今的 "奢侈品 "设计有了新的认识，从过时和排他性的性质转变为对质量而非数量的有意识选择，在材料、表达、耐用性和最终的可持续性方面精心制作体验和产品。

RAAWII

Your Tense collection's durability, portability, and sustainability nod to the on-the-move or 'nomad' lifestyle. Could you tell us more about the research project and the inspiration behind it?

你的Tense系列的耐用性、便携性和可持续性向移动或 "游牧民族 "的生活方式致敬。你能告诉我们更多关于这个研究项目和它背后的灵感吗？

The collection celebrates the multi-locality of today and tomorrow through furniture and objects that we call “neo-nomadic” essentials, characterized both by sculptural forms and innovative materials. They are easily transportable, tool-free and entirely connected by the force of tension allowing one to recreate and rebuild a home anywhere in a few simple steps.

该系列通过我们称之为 "新游牧 "的必需品的家具和物品来庆祝今天和明天的多地点性，其特点是雕塑般的形式和创新的材料。它们易于运输，无需工具，完全通过张力的力量连接起来，使人们能够在任何地方通过几个简单的步骤重新创建和重建一个家。

The nomadic reference nods actually back to some of humanity’s first construction systems: stretching animal skins on wooden or bone frames to create temporary shelters, safe and strong but able to move.

The aim of the collection is to showcase a radical new way of envisioning fast-assembly, flat-pack and tool-free range of furnitures.

游牧民族的参考实际上回到了人类最早的一些建筑系统：在木头或骨头框架上伸展动物皮来创造临时住所，安全、坚固但能够移动。这个系列的目的是展示一种激进的新方式，设想快速组装、扁平包装和免工具的家具系列。

TENSE

These solutions allows us to tackle different problems commonly present within the furniture industry. The flat-pack and lightweight nature of the collection offers a more sustainable approach to shipping and transporting, reducing the carbon footprint during this phase. Similarly opting for bonding free solution allows the products to be repairable, upcyclable, easily recyclable and ultimately circular.

这些解决方案使我们能够解决家具行业内普遍存在的不同问题。该系列家具的平装和轻质特性为运输提供了一种更可持续的方法，在这个阶段减少了碳足迹。同样，选择无粘接的解决方案使产品可以维修，可以升级，容易回收，最终实现循环。

HOLY for NOV GALLERY

You have collaborated with a wide range of clients with varying backgrounds and needs, from Airbnb to Museum für Gestaltung to Hermès. What's your creative process like when approaching a new project, from learning a client's requirements and stories to creation

你曾与各种不同背景和需求的客户合作，从Airbnb到Museum für Gestaltung到Hermès。在接触一个新项目时，从了解客户的要求和故事到创作，你的创作过程是怎样的？

We don’t perceive ourselves as formal driven, but definitely project driven or even more brief driven in case of a commercial collaboration with a client, we like to work within a set of boundaries instead of just having “carte blanche” when approaching a project. We feel that is when we challenge certain limitation that the real innovation, both technical or formal, happens.

我们不认为自己是正式驱动的，但肯定是项目驱动的，甚至在与客户进行商业合作的情况下，更多的是简报驱动的，我们喜欢在一套边界内工作，而不是在接近一个项目时拥有 "全权委托 "的权利。我们认为，当我们挑战某些限制时，真正的创新才会发生，无论是技术上还是形式上。

NEW WORKS

Which one of your projects do you consider the most interesting so far, and why?

你认为到目前为止你的哪一个项目最有趣，为什么？

That’s a tough one, we have a lot of projects - gallery ones, limited editions, etc. - that have been great source of inspiration and the spark for more mature projects later on. But the most interesting one so far is definitely Tense. It started as a self initiated project and research on the history of tensile structure as alternative construction technique that oppose tension to compression, otherwise predominantly present in the history fo the western world, in parallel with a broader exploration on alternative materials and techniques suited both for small and larger scale productions.

这是个难题，我们有很多项目--画廊项目、限量版等等。这些都是灵感的来源，也是后来更成熟的项目的火花。但到目前为止，最有趣的项目无疑是《紧张》。它开始于一个自发的项目和对拉伸结构历史的研究，作为替代的建筑技术，将张力与压缩相对立，否则主要存在于西方世界的历史中，同时对适合小型和大型生产的替代材料和技术进行更广泛的探索。

CHRISTOFLE

The result culminated as a first collection presented in Milan in 2019, which gained a lot of attention in the press and generated different work opportunities for us thanks to that. The same collection for example is being reworked and expanded right now and will be edited next year by Cappellini that will present it during the next Milan Design fair. Other projects we are developing right now with other brands are in some way the result of the same research initiated from Tense.

其结果是2019年在米兰展示的第一个系列，在媒体上获得了很多关注，并因此为我们带来了不同的工作机会。例如，同一个系列现在正在被重新加工和扩展，并将在明年由Cappellini编辑，在下一届米兰设计展期间展示它。我们现在与其他品牌开发的其他项目在某种程度上也是由Tense发起的相同研究的结果。

Could you share a bit with us about your next big project?

你能和我们分享一下你的下一个项目吗？

The next big project, or rather collaboration, that will be launch later this year is one with Balenciaga. Like many brands in the fashion industry, they are approaching design in a more holistic way and we were happy to collaborate with them offering a specific industrial design approach to their artistic vision on a different range of various new products and accessories we designed together with the fashion house.

下一个大项目，或者说是合作，将在今年晚些时候推出，是与Balenciaga合作的项目。像时尚界的许多品牌一样，他们正以一种更全面的方式对待设计，我们很高兴与他们合作，为他们的艺术视野提供一种特定的工业设计方法，我们与该时尚品牌共同设计了不同系列的各种新产品和配件。