Julie Richoz

Julie Richoz (1990) is a Swiss-French designer. After graduating from ECAL, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, she started working for Pierre Charpin as a project assistant. Richoz has won the “Grand Prix” of the Design Parade 2012 at the Villa Noailles. She was a designer-in-residency at Sèvres, Cite de la céramique, as well as at CIRVA, international research center on arts and glass, Marseille where she was given the chance to explore the materials and the savoir-faire behind them. Besides her gallery work she collaborates with companies such as Alessi, Artecnica, Louis Poulsen and more recently Louis Vuitton. In 2015, she received a Swiss Design Award, which is the Switzerland’s leading national design competition organized annually by the FOC (Federal Office of Culture) since 1918.

Prices: Finalist Hublot design prize, 2016 - Lauréate Bourse Leenaards, 2016 - Swiss Design Award, 2015 - Prix du Jury, Design Parade, 2013