These two chests of drawers are copies of Art Deco cabinets. Ludovic added a contemporary spin by using noble materials for one of the pair and more “modest” ones for the second. It took his entire final year at the École Boulle (the college of fine arts and crafts and applied arts in Paris) to make the two pieces, which were awarded the 2007 Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'intelligence de la main.
From the age of seven, Ludovic Avenel knew he wanted to study cabinetmaking. “I always wanted to do that without knowing where it really came from,” h ...
