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.

Inspirés par les paysages méditerranéens, ils conçoivent des espaces totaux où mobilier, fresques et objets dialoguent. Chaque projet est pensé comme une expérience sensorielle, une immersion dans un univers où la rigueur du design rencontre la liberté du geste pictural.
La couleur y joue un rôle central : elle relie, apaise ou réveille. La peinture d’Antoine agit comme une respiration, liant les volumes dans une même vibration solaire.

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.