About
Amandine Gini is a product designer and scenographer with strong interests in materiality and experience. After graduating in 2019 from the Bachelor of Industrial Design at ECAL and working there as a teaching assistant for two years, she joined Fabien Cappello’s studio in Guadalajara, Mexico. Back in Switzerland, she also gained experience working for Panter&Tourron in Lausanne and initiated in parallel her own practice as a scenography designer for ImagesVevey in 2022.
In addition, her pluridisciplinary approach leads her to manage projects with a more global vision, ranging from art direction to exhibition design, creating dialogues between existing design tools and her innovative approach. Her work has been exhibited at the Milan furniture fair, in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris and in Guadalajara, Mexico.
EXHIBITIONS
2023
ALT_MATTER, NOV Gallery, House of Switzerland, Milano (IT)
2022
800 GRADOS, Espacio Abierto, Guadalajara (MX)
2022
Jardin des Tuileries, Paris (FR)
2021
Exposición Torre Avancer, Fora Arquitectura, Guadalajara (MX)
2019
ECAL x MacGuffin, C-Mine, Genk (BE)
2018
ECAL x MacGuffin, IKSV Design Biennal, Istanbul (TR)
2018
ECAL x MacGuffin, Fondation Lumas, Arles (FR)
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023
Matchmaking & Circular Design Event, La Becque, Pro Helvetia (CH)
2023
Ikea Foundation Switzerland
2020
Bosquet des innovations, Paris (FR)
2018
China Hardware Innovation Camp, Shenzhen & Hong Kong (HK)
PRESS
2021
Maison&Ambiances
2019
VTWonen, Article about Geonoma project→ Link!
2018
World Architecture Compagny → Link!
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Harvesting Memories
Scenography
Musée de la Confrérie des Vignerons
2023
Harvesting Memories
Scenography
Musée de la Confrérie des Vignerons
2023
800 GRADOS
Material research
Santacruz Glass Design
2022
CC Ceramics
Product
Self-initiated/
2021
CPX Table
Furniture
Private commission
2020
Sample soaps
Product
SAMPLE SOAPS
2019
171°
Product
Self-initiated
2019
Geonoma
Product
Self-initiated
2019
P10
Furniture
ECAL X Plateforme10
2018
Vevey
Scenography
ImagesVevey
2018
Curve
Product
Self-initiated
2015
Harvesting Memories
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Musée de la Confrérie des Vignerons
Vevey, CH
Photography - Calypso Mahieu
Harvesting Memories is an exhibition that reveals objects from the museum’s archive of the Fête des Vignerons. The scenography was thought as a temporary architecture which hosts an exhibition for three seasons. Working around the idea of repurposing elements, yellow crates normally used for grape harvest are placed in this room to display the selected objects. Once the exhibition over, the yellow crates will be given back to the wine growers of the Riviera and will welcome the grapes of the next harvest as originally intended.
800 GRADOS
Infos
with Emilio Ramirez
Glass & metal
Exhibited at Espacio Abierto
Guadalajara, MX
Photography - Emilio Ramirez & Amandine Gini
800 GRADOS is a material research conducted for a local glass factory in Guadalajara with Emilio Ramirez, a Mexican product designer. By collecting car parts, stainless steel kitchen utensils and iron grills from local landfills, we let the glass take on completely different shapes. It allowed new possibilities of expression for this material, letting the urban moulds dictate new shapes. The research was exhibited at Espacio Abierto and contributed to generating new links between local creatives and the industry.
CC Ceramics
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Charcoal pigmented ceramic
Genève, CH
Photography - Cynthia Ammann
Research around the materiality of blackness, its fine nuances and the tension between shiny and mat black surfaces. The perception of both its appearances can have a totally different impact whether it absorbs or reflects the light environment.
CPX Table
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Limited edition
Swiss solid oak
Champex-Lac, CH
Photography - Adrien Sgandurra
CPX Table is as solid oak furniture piece designed for the interior of a chalet situated in the Swiss alpine region. Its shape exploit the alliance between the know-how of the Swiss cabinetmaker and the adaptation of this craft to the current technologies of digital processes. The identity of this piece of furniture lies in its formal simplicity and the use of certain structural qualities that can be achieved through digital milling. The visible surfaces have a plain appearance, while the underside of each tray shows the construction and reinforcements. The structural reinforcements that hold the solid top and accommodate the table frame and legs were integrated into the table in the manner of traditional marquetry using contemporary processes.
SAMPLE SOAPS
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Co-founder with Margo Clavier
Cold saponnification organic soaps
Martigny, CH
Photography - Adrien Sgandurra, Amandine Gini
Design of the identity and art direction for the swiss-brand SAMPLE SOAPS. A collection of monochromatic soap bars produced by a soap maker in Martigny, Switzerland.
171°
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with Nathalie Borgeaud
Polypropylene offcut straps
Lausanne, CH
Photography - Adrien Sgandurra
171° is a collection of baskets made with straps rolls recovered from a webbing manufacturer’s offcuts.
Geonoma
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Botanical Garden Geneva
Geneva, CH
Photography - Adrien Sgandurra
A luminaire developed for the night of the museums and the Botanical Garden of Geneva in 2019. Inspired by the world of botanical gardens, plants and organic matter, this luminaire with flexible filaments interacts with its environment.
P10
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ECAL X Plateforme10
Lausanne, CH
Photography - Adrien Sgandurra
P10 is a collection of three public benches designed for the Plateforme10 spacefurnishing competition.
Vevey
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ImagesVevey, 2018
Musée de la Confrérie des Vignerons
Vevey, CH
Photography - Adrien Sgandurra
Adrien Sgandurra’s one year photography exhibition at «Musée de la Confrérie des Vignerons» in Vevey focuses on the duality between the traditional methods of swiss winemakers and the technological improvements around winemaking. The scenography of this exhibition carries on this duality of the ancient and the new also through the room’s historic architecture that strongly contrasts with the technical panels and the screens’ reflexion.
Curve
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Lausanne, CH
Photography - Younès Klouche
The container’s shape is revealed progressively with the objects that are disposed on its elastic surface.