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🇫🇷 Olympic Torch design by Mathieu Lehanneur unveiled
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Mathieu Lehanneur turns Renault 4L into nomadic hotel suite with panoramic windows

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has transformed the Renault 4L car, an icon of the 1960s, into a luxury-travel vehicle with a lounge space in the transparent boot.

In honour of the vehicle's 60th anniversary, Renault had tasked Lehanneur with devising a concept car that showcased his vision for the 4L.

The Suite No.4 reimagines Renault's 4L for travelling in minimalist luxury

Lehanneur's response was the Suite No.4, which reflects on the contemporary hunger for escape and the view that journeys are more about the experience than the destination.

The car has the same lines and exterior dimensions as the classic 4L, but the rear panelling is replaced with panoramic windows that cover the sides and roof of the car. According to Lehanneur, they look like architectural glass but are made of transparent polycarbonate.

Panelling is replaced with panoramic windows, providing enveloping views

He hopes that for someone reclining in the boot, which has been turned into a lounge space, the cockpit will "dematerialise" and the view will be enveloping.

"I wanted to create a room with a view but whose view could be endlessly recreated," said Lehanneur, "Like the missing link between mobility and immobility, between travel and refuge."

Domestic materials are used in the interior, such as in the bright yellow velvet of the dashboard

He said he thinks of the Suite No.4 as more a work of architecture than an automobile, and one that embodies the concept of "minimal luxury".

"I wanted to make the experience as enjoyable on the road as at the destination," Lehanneur continued. "So I created a hybrid of the automobile world and the world of architecture in praise of the escape. Suite Number 4 isn't a car, it's travel architecture."

The paint on the car body is meant to have a similar mineral look as concrete

Lehanneur retrofitted his 4L to be 100 per cent electric, and it also features transparent solar panels on the roof that help to charge the car's battery while in sunlight.

The interior features materials from domestic rather than vehicular environments, all of which are made in France.

A bright yellow velvet upholsters the seats and dashboard, while creamy white chenille with a thick, ribbed texture covers the space in the boot.

Bolsters and cushions add to the inviting atmosphere of the lounge space, while a wooden slide-out bench can be pulled out like a drawer from under the rear hatch to extend this area.

Lehanneur thinks of the Suite No.4 as more a work of architecture than a vehicle

With the hatch open, the space is open to the outdoors but sheltered from rain.

The car's exterior features a front grill made out of one of Lehanneur's signature materials, polished aluminium, sculpted into a rippled surface as in his Liquid Marble series.

The Suite No.4 has the same lines and silhouette as the iconic 4L

To add to Suite No.4's architectural qualities, the body is coated with three layers of paint meant to approximate the mineral appearance of cement.

The Suite No.4 will be displayed at the L'Atelier Renault showroom on the Champs-Elysées in Paris starting 1 December, and at the Maison&Objet fair from 20 to 24 January 2022.

Lehanneur applied his technique of sculpting aluminium into waves on the front grill

The Renault 4L, pronounced "Quatrelle" in French and also known as the Renault 4, is one of the most long-lived cars in history, with a production run of 33 years between 1961 and 1994.

Eight million units were sold in that time, and it was manufactured in 28 different countries.

The car has been retrofitted with an electric engine and has transparent solar panels on the roof

Renault's recent designes include the Morphoz concept car that expanded based on user need and the Ez-Pro concept for driverless delivery pods.

Lehanneur is a French artist and designer whose previous work includes the aluminium State of the World sculptures based on population data and the sculpted marble Ocean Memories furniture pieces.

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Mathieu Lehanneur designs 3D-printed sculptures based on population statistics

French artist Mathieu Lehanneur has used population data from 140 countries to create a collection of 3D-printed aluminium sculptures.

Called State of the World, the sculptures were presented at an exhibition at Design Miami/Basel.

Top: State of the World was exhibited at Design Miami/Basel. Above: the sculptures are based on population data

Each solid sculpture represents one individual country. The country's birthrate, life expectancy and history are reflected in the shape of the sculpture, with each individual groove representing an age from 1-100.

At the base is newborn children, while the peak represents the elderly. Most of the sculptures are bottom-heavy, demonstrating how few people in society live to be 100 years old.

Lehanneur sourced the data from a UN database

"The idea was to make visible and to also understand all the people who are living right now on the same planet," Lehanneur told Dezeen.

"I wanted to change the two-dimensional statistics into a three-dimensional object – like a spinning object," he said. "You can see that every single silhouette is different from one another."

Each groove represents an age from 1-100

Lehanneur retrieved the population data from a United Nations (UN) database, where it was originally depicted in mathematical graphs.

In order to accurately represent each age demographic to the half millimetre, he 3D-printed the sculptures from aluminium.

"I decided to use the aluminium because when you mash it in carefully, you can absolutely respect every single dimension," he said.

"For me, it makes sense to be extremely precise because every single millimetre means thousands of years."

Lehanneur also created a silver sculpture that represents the population data for all of Earth, which is much wider at its base than its top, showing how young the majority of the planet's population is.

A single silver sculpture represents data from the entire planet

State of the World is the continuation of an earlier series of sculptures by the designer, called The Age of the World, created in 2009.

That project, a collection of ceramic urns, represented the ages of the population in France, the USA, Japan, Egypt and Russia.

Although he started the project a decade ago, Lehanneur believes that 2021 was the right year to finalise and exhibit State of the World because of the coronavirus pandemic.

"This is a turning point in the history of humanity," he reflected. "It's super rare that the entire world basically lived the same catastrophe."

"This moment of the reopening of the world was the right moment," he added.

Lehanneur is known for artwork that explores the relationship between the living world and objects, such as a black marble table that looks like the sea.

The artist also created a range of black marble furniture sculptures that mimic waves in the ocean.

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Mathieu Lehanneur designs 3D-printed sculptures based on population statistics

French artist Mathieu Lehanneur has used population data from 140 countries to create a collection of 3D-printed aluminium sculptures.

Called State of the World, the sculptures were presented at an exhibition at Design Miami/Basel.

Top: State of the World was exhibited at Design Miami/Basel. Above: the sculptures are based on population data

Each solid sculpture represents one individual country. The country's birthrate, life expectancy and history are reflected in the shape of the sculpture, with each individual groove representing an age from 1-100.

At the base is newborn children, while the peak represents the elderly. Most of the sculptures are bottom-heavy, demonstrating how few people in society live to be 100 years old.

Lehanneur sourced the data from a UN database

"The idea was to make visible and to also understand all the people who are living right now on the same planet," Lehanneur told Dezeen.

"I wanted to change the two-dimensional statistics into a three-dimensional object – like a spinning object," he said. "You can see that every single silhouette is different from one another."

Each groove represents an age from 1-100

Lehanneur retrieved the population data from a United Nations (UN) database, where it was originally depicted in mathematical graphs.

In order to accurately represent each age demographic to the half millimetre, he 3D-printed the sculptures from aluminium.

"I decided to use the aluminium because when you mash it in carefully, you can absolutely respect every single dimension," he said.

"For me, it makes sense to be extremely precise because every single millimetre means thousands of years."

Lehanneur also created a silver sculpture that represents the population data for all of Earth, which is much wider at its base than its top, showing how young the majority of the planet's population is.

A single silver sculpture represents data from the entire planet

State of the World is the continuation of an earlier series of sculptures by the designer, called The Age of the World, created in 2009.

That project, a collection of ceramic urns, represented the ages of the population in France, the USA, Japan, Egypt and Russia.

Although he started the project a decade ago, Lehanneur believes that 2021 was the right year to finalise and exhibit State of the World because of the coronavirus pandemic.

"This is a turning point in the history of humanity," he reflected. "It's super rare that the entire world basically lived the same catastrophe."

"This moment of the reopening of the world was the right moment," he added.

Lehanneur is known for artwork that explores the relationship between the living world and objects, such as a black marble table that looks like the sea.

The artist also created a range of black marble furniture sculptures that mimic waves in the ocean.

The post Mathieu Lehanneur designs 3D-printed sculptures based on population statistics appeared first on Dezeen.

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