Dach&Zephir (Guadeloupe)

Graduates of the National School of Decorative Arts of Paris, Dimitri Zephir and Florian Dach founded their creative studio dach&zephir in 2016. Mixing fervor and poetry, their contemporary creations celebrate the creole cultural heritage from the French Caribbean while integrating other cultures, therefore echoing the thinking of Martinican poet Édouard Glissant on creolization. For the duo, History and personal stories are starting points in design, acknowledging that objects are mediums for our minds. Through historic textile collages, lamps incorporating indigenous plants or seeds, rugs woven in celebration of black hair, their productions aim at revealing to the world the historic and cultural specificities of Caribbean territories.