With the drawing

The first work devoted to the drawing work of designer Pierre Charpin, this book brings together a selection of nearly 120 works taken from different series produced between 2005 and 2022. If drawing is an artistic discipline, it is also a major step in the practice of design. However, Pierre Charpin never considered it as a simple step in the production process of an object, but rather as a practice in its own right, reflecting the singular relationship that the designer maintains more broadly with the form. Directly linked to his intuitions and thoughts, drawing is perceived as an immediate, intuitive and natural way to bring out a form that does not yet exist. Unlike applied drawing, drawing as such no longer serves to represent form; he himself is form. The works shown in this book are distinguished both by the variety of techniques used – colored pencils, graphite, pen, felt-tip pen, nib, crayon, dry chalk, Indian ink, colored ink – but also by the permanence of certain patterns such as lines and loops, ribbons or arabesques, black or colored designs, produced in series, often representing elementary shapes.