Annabelle d’Huart (Paris, 1952) works on photography, drawing, sculpture and jewelry design. After studying at Ecole Camondo in Paris, she lived in New York, making portraits of great American artists (Robert Ryman, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, et al), and had a show in 2003 at the Paula Cooper Gallery.

Later she worked for about a decade at Taller de Arquitectura of Ricardo Bofill, also creating installations like Songes d’Or ou L’Origine rêvée, a set of 23 terracotta pieces from the same matrix: serial production, in fact, is a constant in her work.

She also discovered her fascination with the marine universe, in 1996, when at Sèvres she designed the Atlantide table service; the collaboration with Sèvres continued in 2006 with Hommage à Ruhlmann, a tribute to the designer Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann (Paris, 1879–1933).

From 2007 to 2010 she had a workshop at the Manufacture to concentrate on the creation of a collection of 300 bijoux-sculptures in Sèvres porcelain.

Her career also includes jewelry projects for Karl Lagerfeld / Chanel (2000) and Yohji Yamamoto (2007). In 2006 the Manufacture de la Savonnerie commissioned her to create a carpet, Hauts Fonds. Today she is making a series of seven canvases in a large format, in an interpretation of the work of the Chinese painter Shitao.

Texy by Olivia Cremascoli