Location: Paseo Ponti

Neighborhood: [Design District]

Artist: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec [brothers]

Nationality : French

Name: Nuage [organic pergola]

Type: Outdoor Installation

The steel and coloured-glass pergola is shaped like clouds that manipulate shadows and natural lighting around it. The permenant fixture has another organic element: native plants will engulf the elevated stucture, further merging it with the enviroment.
Read more at https://www.wallpaper.com/design-miami/2017/preview/ronan-and-erwan-bouroullec#pafy6OuCkD2MV8FW.99

ABOUT NUAGE via [bouroullec.com]

Before Paseo Ponti, the clouds seemed only to be moved by the wind.

Nuage promenade is a 100m long passage mainly characterized by an organic pergola, raised above some ponds and planters. This installation brings shade, shelter, seating and charm to the Paseo Ponti in the Miami Design District. Like ivy that grows along the street, Nuage promenade engages with buildings and facades, creating a natural relationship with the surrounding architecture.

The sun shines through the steel and colored glass structure that mimics cloud apertures, casting graphic shadows that vibrate with blues and greens like stained-glass windows crossed by the sun in cathedrals. Local rustic plants envelop the project, with trees jutting through the clouds to the sky, or relaxing against them.

Quickly, vines will colonize the system, gaining depth and patina throughout the years, encircling the quiet ponds and plant beds arranged along the path. These freely shaped concrete forms emerge as if from the ground, mineral and heavy. They contrast the stainless-steel roof on which the environment, the sky, the vegetation are reflected. The reflection resonates with the changes of day, with the seasons, inviting relaxation, reflection, and respite from Miami's bright sun.

Nuage promenade is a 100 metre-long urban design.The modules and columns are made of stainless steel and tinted glass. The ground elements, ponds, planters and seating areas are made of raw concrete.

Nuage promenade is an urban design installed in December in Miami design district, Paseo Ponti street. It was commissioned 2 years ago, and it will be permanent.

ABOUT THE BOUROULLEC BROTHERS

Ronan (born 1971) and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1976) are brothers and designers based in Paris. They have been working together for about fifteen years bonded by diligence and challenged by their distinct personalities. Their studio is based in Paris and their team numbers around six people.

In 1997, they were spotted by Cappellini, giving them their first industrial design projects. They began working with the Galerie kreo in 2000 and had their first solo show there in 2001. Issey Miyake then hired them to design the boutique to house his new collection « A-Poc ». They met then Rolf Felhbaum, President of Vitra, and worked on a new office system entitled « Joyn». Since then, they have gone on to work with Artek, Alessi, Axor Hansgrohe, Cappellini, Established & Sons, Flos, Hay, Kettal, Kvadrat, Kartell, Glas Italia, Ligne Roset, Magis, Iittala, Mattiazzi, Mutina, Nani Marquina, Samsung and Vitra.

Their work has covered many field ranging from the design of small objects as jewellery to spatial arrangements and architecture, from craftsmanship to industrial scale, from drawings to videos and photography. The designers also maintain an experimental activity with Gallery kreo, which is also essential to the development of their work. 

Designs of the Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are part of select international museums’ permanent collections such as the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Design Museum in London, and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Several monographic exhibitions have been devoted to their work: «Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec» at the Design Museum, London (2002) and «Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec» at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2004), «Album» at the Vitra Design Museum (2012) and «Bivouac» at the Centre Pompidou Metz (2011) and then at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2012-2013). In 2013, the Arts Décoratifs, Paris presented «Momentané» and more recently they presented “17 Screens” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2015). In 2016, the city of Rennes showed their latest researches in 4 exhibitions in three different places (Frac Bretagne, Les Champs Libres and the Parliament of Bretagne). 
A special website has been conceived for the occasion: www.bouroullec.com/press
Until January 22, the Vitra Design Museum showcased the exhibition Reveries Urbaines. 

A comprehensive monograph was released in 2012, Works, Phaidon Press. In 2013, under the art direction of Cornel Windlin, JRP Ringier published a 864-page paperback book called Drawing that collects more than 850 drawings that Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec made between 2005 and 2012. In the past, two monographs have been published : Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec published by Phaidon Press (2003) and Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec – Catalogue de Raison (Paris: Images Modernes / kreo, 2002).


DATES

Ronan Bouroullec (born 1971 in Quimper, Brittany) and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1976 in Quimper, Brittany) began working together in 1998 after completing their
studies at École supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris and École nationale supérieure des Arts in Cergy. Their studio is based in Paris.

Selected Exhibitions

Made in France, group exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1997
Vases combinatoires, Galerie Neotù, Paris, 1997
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Galerie kreo, Paris, 2001
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Design Museum, London, 2002
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2004
Parois, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Roubaix, 2004
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2004
Airs de Paris, group show, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007
étapes, Villa Noailles, Hyères; MAC’s, Grand-Hornu; l’elac, Lausanne, 2008–2009
Lianes, Roches & Conques, Galerie kreo, Paris, 2010
Album, Arc en Rêve–Centre d’architecture, Bordeaux, 2011;
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2012
Bivouac, Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2011; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2012
Momentané, Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris (April 26 – September 1, 2013)
Lustre Gabriel, Château de Versailles, 2013
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. 17 screens, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2015
Rennes exhibitions, Rennes, France, 2016
- Reveries Urbaines, Les Champs Libres
- 17 Ecrans, FRAC Bretagne
- Retrospective, FRAC Bretagne
- Kiosque, Parliament of Bretagne
Ruutu vases Limited edition, Galerie kreo, London, 2016
Chaines, Galerie kreo, Paris, 2016
Reveries Urbaines, personal exhibition, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2016


Selected Bibliography

Catalogue de raison, monograph, Images modernes éditions kreo, Paris 2002
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, monograph, Phaidon Press, London 2003
Objets Dessins Maquettes, exh. cat., Archibooks, Paris 2008
Lianes, exh. cat., JRP|Ringier, Zurich 2012
Works, monograph, Phaidon Press, London 2012
Bivouac, exh. cat., Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz 2012
Drawings, JRP|Ringier, Zurich, 2013

Selected Public Collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris
Design Museum, London
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Art Institute, Chicago
The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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