Florie Salnot

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Design

  Programme

  MA Design Products, 2010

• Contact

• [email protected]
  07943 783522
  http://floriesalnot-saharawis.blogspot.com

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• Building on a new craft technique I have developed, using available materials in a refugee camp setting (Sahara desert, south-west Algeria), the project seeks to enable Saharawi refugees to set up their own jewellery-making business. The aim is to offer a sustainable way for generating badly needed income and thereby reducing dependency on humanitarian aid. It also aims to promote self-reliance and innovation, and invigorate local craft traditions in an original way.

  Plastic from bottles is the raw material. It is transformed with a low technology that is widely available in the camps, using simple hand tools and hot sand.

• Degrees

• BA (Hons), Furniture and Product Design (First class), London Metropolitan University, 2008; BA, Cabinet Making, Ecole Boulle, Paris, France, 2007; DEUG (Hons), Social Sciences and Archaeology (First class), University La Sorbonne, Paris, France, 2004

• Experience

• Designer internship, Julia Lohmann Studio, London, 2008; Cabinet making internship, Isokon, London, 2006

• Exhibitions

• Crisis Shop. Sold Out!, Seves Glassblock Showroom, Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy, 2009; New Designers 2008, London, 2008; Salon des Arts Decoratifs, Espace Rivoli, Paris, France, 2003

• Awards

• 2010