"Il est rare de créer quelque chose qui sera vu par des milliards de personnes, c'est un objet rêvé pour un designer", confie Mathieu Lehanneur, créateur de la torche et de la vasque des Jeux Olympiques de Paris, à l'AFP.
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00:00 "It is rare to create something that will be seen by billions of people,
00:03 it is a dream object for a designer",
00:05 said Mathieu Le Hanner,
00:06 creator of the torch and the Olympic Games Vase in Paris, at AFP.
00:10 The torch he designed is oblong in two perfectly symmetrical parts,
00:15 in a recycled steel whose color is similar to a mixture of gold,
00:18 silver and bronze, a "grave",
00:20 emphasizes the French whose project was selected
00:22 among a dozen by the Olympic Games Organization Committee.
00:25 There is also a magical dimension in the Olympic torch,
00:29 "Beyond design, it is sacred fire",
00:31 adds the designer, met by AFP at the AVE Factory,
00:35 an old industrial building of red bricks
00:37 whose artistic dig he made in the south of Paris.
00:40 This sacred dimension interests him
00:42 because it summons visible and invisible things,
00:44 adds the one who also designed the heart of a Roman church
00:47 in Poitou-Charenton in 2011.
00:49 EQUALITY
00:50 From a height of 70 cm, weighing 1.6 kg,
00:55 the torch, reproduced in 2000 copies,
00:57 will close the flame throughout a relay
00:59 that must lead it through France
01:01 from May onward from the Greek site of Olympi.
01:03 What the Vase, the Eugralbe or the Cup,
01:07 which will be lit by the last of the 11,000 carriers
01:09 on the opening ceremony on July 26 in Paris,
01:12 remains confidential.
01:13 It will not be the same scale
01:15 but if the torch constitutes the key to the opening of the Games,
01:18 the Vase is the door,
01:19 they are made to be together,
01:21 glides the designer,
01:22 who could well pour his first Olympic tear
01:25 at the time of the lighting in Paris.
01:27 Its inspiration is born from an idea that is dear to him,
01:30 the equality of treatment between Olympic and Paralympic Games,
01:32 between athletes men and women, he says,
01:34 sitting at a long table on which are arranged several prototypes,
01:38 surrounded by marble, glass and all kinds of materials samples.
01:41 The challenge was to integrate all the elements
01:44 in this object with shrunken ends
01:46 whose complex burner system
01:48 does not go out whatever the climatic conditions, he explains.
01:51 Matte in its upper part,
01:54 the torch is endowed with a brilliant undulation in its lower part,
01:56 a symbol of the scene that crosses Paris, he says.
02:00 Conductor wire.
02:01 Its conductor wire,
02:04 the technology that we do not see,
02:06 the simplicity of the form that a child could draw
02:09 is an homage to nature.
02:10 A rare intelligence,
02:12 a sometimes stubborn perseverance
02:13 and a global vision of the things that lead him to explore unexplored domains,
02:17 says his associate,
02:18 the Brazilian businesswoman Isabla Reino Braga.
02:21 Since the creation of his first design studio in 2001
02:24 at his graduation from the National School of Industrial Design in Paris,
02:28 Matthieu Le Hanner wants to address himself to the brains and hearts of people.
02:31 The MoMA in New York acquired his school graduation project
02:34 on the design of medicines and the Pompidou Center in Paris,
02:37 several of his creations,
02:38 including the little brother of a plant-based air purifier,
02:41 created in 2007 with Harvard University in the United States.
02:44 Louvre Café,
02:46 installation at the Chateau de Chaumont,
02:48 Air France Salon,
02:49 sofa,
02:50 chair,
02:50 mirror,
02:51 lamp,
02:52 his creations constantly play with apparent oppositions
02:54 like when glass supports marble.
02:56 He created his own brand in 2018
02:59 and will install a new foot on the ground in New York in March.
03:02 At the Salon Maison et Objets from 18 to 22 January,
03:05 which is the designer of the year,
03:07 he will present his very last project,
03:09 Autonomie,
03:10 a minimalist shelter that contains what one would really need on a desert island,
03:14 less to have and more to be.