Jimmy Delatour is a designer and creative director born in Paris, he graduated from renowned school ESAG Penninghen in 2008. After finishing school, he worked as studio manager for an object manufacturing company and at the same time launched Delatour Design Paris (still running up to this date), a creative studio focused on branding, packaging design, graphic design and Art Direction.
As a teenager, reading the book The Fountain Head by Ayn Rand, aroused his interest and started a long lasting fascination for architecture. In 2017, alongside his branding studio, he embarked on a more personal project with the creation of a collection of collectible concrete furniture with modernist and brutalist inspirations for Armel Soyer Parisian gallery. This first collection marked the start of a growing love for object and furniture design, far from his original graphic and art direction degree.
Citing as references Jean Prouvé, Augustin Hernandez Navarro, Tadao Ando or Louis Khan, Jimmy began a creative journey focused on strong volumes in connection with architecture and geometry.
This common thread is for him a way of paying tribute to this major Art by bringing it into the living space thus creating a place of memory, awakening and inspiration.
“It is not necessary to fill the space, but to activate it.”Tadao AndoWhile some pieces of furniture are designed to fit into existing spaces, Jimmy applies himself more to designing objects claiming their presence, sculptural, playing on the notions of weight, balance and material. He seeks a fair measure between elementary use and the sensory dimension, so that function and form dialogue with space, stimulate or surprise.
In 2021, he designs a new collection of travertine furniture inspired by Roman architecture (Romanesque), in limited edition and exclusively for the USA gallery StudioTwentySeven. The same year he develops a collection of 4 Brutalist Totems for this same gallery (released 2022). Jimmy then meets with M Éditions (FR), and designs 2 new bespoke marble collections, POMPEII and MONUMENTS (releases 2023 - 2024).
In 2022 Giulio Cappellini that he met previously during the Paris design week, advises him to get in touch with Massimo Lorusso of Trussardi Home to propose his designs skills. 2023 gives birth to 4 products, fruits of this collaboration: an armchair, a desk, an ottoman and a rug.
With other developments underway for 2023 for several galleries and brands (USA, France, Italy, and Australia), Jimmy hopes to be able to continue to share his passion for volumes, materials and strong lines, both in the collector’s furniture sector and in the general public furniture publishing sector as well.
