Superpoly

Based in Hyères, the duo Superpoly, founded by Antoine Grulier and Thomas Defour, joyfully blurs the boundaries between art, design, and interior architecture. Their work breathes the South: color, light, warmth, and lightness.

Inspired by Mediterranean landscapes, they create total environments where furniture, murals, and objects engage in dialogue. Each project is conceived as a sensory experience, an immersion in a world where the discipline of design meets the freedom of painterly gesture. Color plays a central role: connecting, soothing, or awakening. Antoine’s painting acts as a breath, uniting volumes in a shared solar vibration.

Winners of both the Public Prize and the Special Jury Prize (chaired by India Mahdavi) at Design Parade Toulon 2016, Superpoly champions a Mediterranean art of living, free, jubilant, and deeply human, a form of design imbued with the poetry of everyday life.

For Florian Daguet-Bresson, they create ceramic works whose motifs become small humorous narratives, inspired by the relationship between humans and nature, a fitting recipe for smiling in the age of the Anthropocene. Ants, for instance, are seen sipping drops of spilled liquor left from the night before, scattered among a few beer caps and a forgotten set of keys; bees come to forage daisies caught in the mesh of an old fence; and a basket left at the back of the garden becomes the new home for a host of small creatures.