Julie Richoz Amethyst Blown Glass Vase Model "Isla" Mexican Contemporary Design

Born in 1990, Julie Richoz is a Swiss designer working in Paris. After graduating from ECAL, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, she started working for Pierre Charpin as a project assistant. In 2012, she set up her design studio in Paris, where she enjoys curiosity and sensibility to develop her language through objects. Richoz has won the Grand Prix of the Design Parade 2012 at the Villa Noailles. She was a designer-in-residency at Sèvres, Cité de la céramique, as well as at CIRVA, an international research center on arts and glass, Marseille, where she was given the chance to explore the materials and the savoir-faire behind them. In 2015, she received a Swiss Design Award, which is Switzerland’s leading national design competition organized annually by the FOC since 1918.