Art Direction · Associate
Photographer, filmmaker and creator of 3D imagery, Loïc has worked alongside Thierry Forbois since 2011, the year of the very first Vascellum. Between Loïc and Thierry a shared way of seeing has grown. Their aesthetic dialogue lies at the heart of the work's creation.
Loïc is the first gaze laid upon the work as it begins to appear. He enters at that fragile moment of creation where intuition is still searching for its form, its light, its truth. Through photoreal, cinematic imagery, he gives the work a felt presence, letting the one who commissioned it meet the work before it becomes real.
“Objects and places have a light of their own, something immanent that arrests the eye, a kind of aura rising from the whole, or sometimes from a single detail: a texture, a shade, a line. My work is to light them without eclipsing their own light.” Loïc Fontaine-Boivin
Client Stewardship · Associate
To commission a work from the studio is, first, to entrust a desire before it has fully taken form. Hughes receives that trust.
From the first conversation to the day the work comes to inhabit its place, he remains a steady, attentive presence, holding the thread between the client, the studio, and the atelier. He watches over the confidence placed in him, and creates the conditions for a relationship that can endure beyond the work itself.
Engineering · Associate
Between a work dreamed and a work made to last, there is Maxime Boivin. At the head of the atelier since 2010, he gives Forbois's visions their constructive intelligence.
Well before fabrication, he weighs their risks, their strengths, their possibilities. Through the prototype, he tests the details on which the whole depends: rightness of means, resistance, longevity, precision of assembly. He brings the unprecedented up against the test of the real. What he brings comes down to a single word: certainty.
Project Orchestration · Associate
A work from the studio sets dozens of hands, skills and deadlines in motion. Jean-Pierre Gilbert holds together what that complexity might pull apart.
Thierry Forbois's companion from the very first hour, he brings to the studio thirty-five years of project management in architecture and interiors. He attunes the trades, orders the timing and anticipates the strains. Under his hand, the work advances as one, from the first gesture to the last.