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.

Avenue du Mont-Blanc 10

1018 Lausanne, Switzerland

amandine@gini.ch

 

@amandinegini

EXHIBITIONS

2024

Out of the wood works, NOV Gallery, House of Switzerland, Milano (IT)

2023

ALT_MATTER, NOV Gallery, House of Switzerland, Milano (IT)

2023

ALT_MATTER, NOV Gallery, Design Days, Geneva (CH)

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

2024

Matchmaking Pro Helvetia, Logitech, Lausanne (CH)

2024

Ikea Foundation, Switzerland (CH)

2023

Seoul Matchmaking Programme, Pro Helvetia (CH)

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

2023

Maison&Ambiances, N°162

2023

Wohnrevue, N°06-23

2023

FRAME → Link!

2023

Stylepark → Link!

2021

Maison&Ambiances

2019

VTWonen, Article about Geonoma project→ Link!

2018

World Architecture Compagny → Link!

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FORMWORK

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with Victor Moynier

Limited edition for NOV Gallery

Spruce and oak wood

Photography—Cynthia Ammann

Supported by IKEA Foundation Switzerland & Fondation Casino Barrière de Montreux

FORMWORK is a furniture collection that delves into the utilization of discarded wood within the construction industry, resulting in objects characterized by the combination of spruce and oak wood. The project views reclaimed timber as a precious raw material and offers an alternative to help reduce the consumption of virgin wood in the furniture industry.

The collection's singular aesthetic lies in the use of a wooden patchwork layout, utilizing spruce as a vertical and structural element, while oak is chosen for its aesthetic appeal and durability. The resulting pieces create a graphical yet elegant language, blending traditional and contemporary woodworking approaches.

Comprising a chair, a wall-mounted shelf, and a side table, the three furniture pieces draw direct inspiration from the structures found in the timber formworking process—a temporary structure used to cast concrete on building sites.

PATCHWORK

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with Victor Moynier

Limited edition for 4321.KR

Spruce and oak wood

Photography—Amandine Gini, Shinyoung Bahc

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of Korean-Swiss international relations, this collection of wooden trays was created as a merge of Korea’s unique textile patchworks and Switzerland’s woodworking heritage.

Originally, the wrapping cloth in the Korean domestic landscape was known as “bojagi” and made from scraps of left-over fabrics sewn together.

Inspired by bojagi’s geometrical patterns, the PATCHWORK trays play with the graphic layout of carefully selected Swiss wood types which include oak, larch, walnut, and fir. The shape also draws inspiration from the slanted sides of the iconic Korean tea trays.

TC23

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Swiss Parliament x ECAL

Bern, CH

Photography—Marvin Merkel

Designed exclusively for the Swiss Parliament, the TC23 pencil sharpener is one of the official gifts offered by the Federal Assembly during parliamentary visits. With its cast aluminium body, its rotary movement and its unique shape, the pencil sharpener is inspired by a Swiss icon, the pendulum winding key. Designed and developed entirely in Switzerland in collaboration with local partners of excellence, this gift helps to promote Switzerland’s image abroad.

OFFSET

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with Victor Moynier

Limited edition for NOV Gallery

PLA & cellulose laminated paper

Photography—Noé Cotter

Graphic identity—Spectrodrama

Supported by IKEA Foundation Switzerland

OFFSET is a collection of lamps exploring ecological and aesthetic alternatives for the production of objects in line with current environmental concerns.

Based on compostable air packaging sourced in the transport industry, the collection is designed around an inflatable paper diffuser, using air as a constructive element and paper as a light-diffusing material. Composed of a table, a wall and a suspension lamp, the family explores the structural and visual potentials of this material and takes inspiration in the idea of lightness and flexibility inherited from design movements and ideologies of the 60’s.

OFFSET, as the name suggests, refers to the patterns that the digital welding controller can generate. The lamps take different shapes inspired by outdoor camping mattresses or down jackets’ patterns, both produced with cutting-edge welding techniques.

Starting point of the collection, the paper used is laminated with a natural PLA & cellulose film which allows to maintain a constant air pressure over time. The material is entirely bio-based and compostable.

The family of lamps has been developed to be shipped flat-pack and inflated at home, reducing shipping costs & emissions as well as packaging volume. Also designed for disassembly, each component of the product can be dismantled (thanks to magnets or screws fixture) and recycled or repurposed separately.

In an alternative where innovation relies on bio-based materials, Amandine Gini and Victor Moynier work with paper, one of the oldest and most promising natural materials for the future.

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

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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.