Jean-marie Massaud

Since the start of his career (he graduated from ENSCI-Les Ateliers de Paris in 1990), Jean-Marie Massaud has worked on a wide range of projects, from architecture to objects, from single projects to series, from macro-environments to micro-contexts.

Major brands such as Axor, Cassina, Christofle, Poliform and Toyota have called on his ability to blend comfort and elegance, zeitgeist and heritage, generosity and distinction.

Beyond these elegant designs, his quest for lightness – in essence – synthesizes three broader issues: individual and collective fulfillment, economic and industrial efficiency, and environmental concerns. “I try to find an honest and generous path with the idea that, somewhere between hard economic data, there are users, there are People.”

His creations, whether speculative or pragmatic, explore this imperative paradigm: reconciling pleasure and responsibility, the individual and the collective.

When asked to imagine a new stadium for the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, he returned with a novel building in the shape of a cloud and a volcano, integrated into a vast urban development program that would bring together leisure and culture, nature and urbanization, sports aficionados and local citizens. Instead of a stadium, he proposed an environment. And the initial vision proved realistic: the project saw the light of day in July 2011.