Constance Guisset

Born in 1976, Constance Guisset lives and works in Paris.
After studying at ESSEC Business School and Sciences Po, followed by a year at the Tokyo Parliament, Constance Guisset decided to turn to design and enrolled at ENSCI – Les Ateliers, graduating in 2007.
In 2008, she received the Grand Prix du Design de la Ville de Paris, the Prix du Public at the Design Parade de la Villa Noailles, and two Aides à Projets du VIA. In 2010, she was named Designer of the Year at the Salon Maison & Objet and won the Audi Talents Awards.
Constance Guisset works with numerous French and foreign furniture manufacturers such as Petite Friture, Moustache, Tectona, Nature & Découvertes, Molteni&C, LaCividina, ZaoZuo, etc. The studio also designs industrial objects for LaCie - Seagate and jewelry for the MiniMasterpiece Gallery, for example.
Since 2009, Constance Guisset has been creating stage designs for shows, notably Angelin Preljocaj's ballets Le Funambule, Les Nuits, La Fresque, and Winterreise, Laurent Garnier's concert at the Salle Pleyel, and the Wang Ramirez company's choreography Everyness. She also designs exhibition scenography for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, as well as for brands such as Galeries Lafayette and Molteni&C (2011, Best Scenography Award, D'Days, Paris).
Constance Guisset also designs interior architecture projects for Van Cleef & Arpels (2019) and Accor (2014).
In May 2012, a first solo exhibition was dedicated to the work of Constance Guisset at the Chapelle des Calvairiennes, Centre d'Art Contemporain du Pays de Mayenne. From September 2016 to January 2017, a retrospective was held at the mudac (museum of contemporary design and applied arts) in Lausanne. A monograph was published on this occasion. The Fabre Museum in Montpellier dedicated the exhibition Les Formes savantes to her from May to September 2017. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris presented a retrospective of her work in the exhibition Actio! from November 2017 to March 2018. An exhibition will also be dedicated to her at the Institut Français in Milan in 2021.
She has been collaborating with the MiniMasterpiece Gallery since 2015.