"Collaborer avec le vivant c'est apprendre à la connaître avec tout le respect que cela implique. La nature est un modèle de savoir-faire et de savoir-être"
PARIS, France
Tony Jouanneau is a designer, craftsperson, and researcher. Trained in product design at the ESAD Orléans, he spent seven years learning the craft of textile embellishment within the studio of Tzuri Gueta before orienting his practice toward eco-design and biodesign following further studies at ENSCI
-Les Ateliers.
In 2017, he founded ATELIER SUMBIOSIS, a textile embellishment laboratory where science and craftsmanship intersect. His research explores dyeing processes using microalgae, patterns created by insects, and bacterial printing on textiles. Inspired by the virtuous principle of symbiosis, he develops innovative collaborations between living organisms and soft materials.
Awarded the prestigious Villa Kujoyama residency in 2023, he pursued research into pigments derived from sea urchins in partnership with Sorbonne University. This work led him to Japan, where he established collaborations with master textile artisans.
Alongside his artistic practice, he regularly teaches in higher education institutions, addressing new approaches to design research and the creative challenges of working with living systems, notably at ENSCI-Les Ateliers, ENSAD Paris, and Institut Français de la Mode.
Selected by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in 2019, he joined the “Académie des Savoir-Faire Textile” program before entering a residency at BDMMA Paris, where he developed ornamental works using natural pigments in collaboration with artisans and designers. These pieces, combining highly skilled techniques transposed to the scale of objects and architectural spaces, quickly attracted the attention of the luxury industry. Over the past three years, Tony Jouanneau has notably collaborated with Dior, Hermès, and Boucheron on the creation of large-scale artworks for boutiques around the world.
Among his distinctions, he recently received the Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris, an important recognition of his innovative commitment to craftsmanship and sustainable creation.
PARIS, France
Sumbiosis creations explore the richness of biocolors through textile art. These works draw on exceptional craftsmanship rooted in French, Japanese, and Turkish traditions: brush painting, pleating, marbling, shibori... Inspired by the movements of water and air, Tony Jouanneau composes textile art p
ieces where silk becomes painting, transposing haute couture techniques into the decorative arts.
These sculptural pieces awaken a sensory imagination where the macro and the microscopic meet to better grasp life at work.
Made to order – Fully customizable: shape, color, size, lighting.
PARIS, France
ENSAD Paris / Intervenant au sein du Département Textile & Matière
> Bio-finishing : workshop «Nouveaux Savoir-Faire» & Ennoblissement biologique
> Crafting 3D bioluminescence : workshop sur l’impression 3D de bactéries bioluminescentes
Table ronde
Exposition collective
PARIS, France
Atelier-conférence
Conférence sur l’ennoblissement textile biologique
PARIS, France
Félicitations du jury
ORLÉANS, France
Félicitations du jury
Biofabrication
Textile finishing
Conception
Management
Direction artistique
Adobe CC Suite
Rhino 3D Modeling Software
français
Langue natale
anglais
Courant
espagnol
Courant
"Collaborer avec le vivant c'est apprendre à la connaître avec tout le respect que cela implique. La nature est un modèle de savoir-faire et de savoir-être"
Présentation de l'Atelier Sumbiosis
Procédé de teinture à la spiruline, dévoré textile avec des insectes ou impression de tissu avec de la cellulose bactérienne…