Didier Courbot

Didier Jean Anicet Courbot was born in France in 1967. He lives in Paris.

A combination of curiosity and creativity has always driven Didier Courbot in his work as an artist. He has designed public spaces, (the square at the Centre Culturel du Parmelan in Annecy, a garden in Marseille and the entrance of the Institut des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray) as well as jewellery. The scale of the work is not important to him. A piece of jewellery can be just as monumental as an architectural creation.

Didier Courbot, a great fan of the decorative arts, is also a gallery owner specialising in the latter half of 20th century design. He holds both Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos in high esteem. The question of decoration simply raises the question of the means available and employed to work and it is out of the question for him to be restricted, he reiterates the famous quote by Kurt Schwitters, ‘Everything the artist spews is art’.

The Manchette Marseille, 2013 cuffs were designed during an artists’ residency in the centre for art professionals, Pôle des Métiers d’art, at Maison Revel in Pantin. They were produced from waste material remaining from a model of his garden project in Marseille.

Didier Courbot began his career as an artist in the 90s following a period at the Beaux-Arts school and after gaining a diploma in landscape architecture at the ENSP in Versailles. Initially represented by the gallery Chez Valentin, then by Galerie Nelson in France, and by Scai The Bathhouse in Tokyo, he is now represented by the Susan Hobbs gallery in Toronto.

Guilted brass bracelet
2013
Edition of 10

Guilted brass bracelet
2013
Edition of 10

Guilted brass bracelet
2013
Edition of 10

Vermeil or gold and enamel bracelet
2017
Edition of 5

Gold and enamel manchette
2017
Edition of 10

Vermeil bracelet
2017
Edition of 10