Amaury Poudray
Born in 1985
Lives and works in Nantes
Peuplades, public commission from the Cévennes National Park, 2022
© Michel Thiel & Marie Hervieu© Michel Thiel & Marie Hervieu
Initiation, chessboard, 2023
Residency project, Experimental Center for Arts and Crafts and the Dordogne/Périgord Departmental Cultural Agency
© Pauline Turmel
Monacal, furniture set, 2020
Finalist for the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Hand Intelligence / Dialogues 2020
© L’imagerie-Films
Amaury Poudray graduated from the Saint-Étienne School of Art and Design in 2009. He spent a year studying in the United States at the Rhode Island School of Design, and worked for another year with the design team at FABRICA, Benetton’s research and communications centre in Italy.
He is now at the head of his own studio, Amaury Poudray Networks, which specialises in art direction and furniture and interior design. His work is built on a network that encourages human-based relations and includes companies in various fields of expertise. Innovation and global/local connections are at the heart of the studio’s production, which includes collaborations with publishers, furniture manufacturers, small visionary businesses, large firms, art galleries, and schools. Amaury Poudray is currently a teacher at École de design Nantes Atlantique and Audencia Business School.
Translated by Lucy Pons