Maison
ARMAND JONCKERS
A family story that unites two generations of designers.
For over five years, Alexandra and Grégoire revisite and highlight their father's work, the artist sculptor Armand Jonckers, through new creations at the frontiers of design and art. Particularly attached to the experimental dimension which reinterprets techniques developed several decades ago, they bring a new dynamic and instill their distinctive signature which nevertheless remains imbued with this DNA characteristic of Maison Armand Jonckers.
Three creativities, two generations of complicity, one harmony who by a mastered knowledge and a recognizable identity, create exclusive and refined works, mixing precious metals and minerals with the technical sophistication of colored resins, to offer a continuously renewed and original poetic universe.
A story of filiation, of transmission, but also of curiosity always on the alert where each one arrives with his personal baggage, his ideas facing a technology which does not cease evolving. A red thread followed in the trace, but which is written with several hands, all experts without distinction. In the trio, there are no hats, everyone can take on the role of the other. A strength.
These works are the result of a certain alchemy: the search for the point of balance between the original, raw material and the intervention of the human hand. The characteristic engravings of Maison Armand Jonckers' creations are based on a process similar to etching and are close to a primitive aesthetic.
A flawless inspiration. This teeming, buoyant universe, with its decor nourished by whimsical or offbeat objects and hallucinating materials, has given birth to masterpieces. They live in palaces in the Arab Emirates and Kuwait, from Kinshasa to Shanghai and Auckland, but also in private mansions in Paris, Brussels, London, Antwerp, New York and Los Angeles. Creations that integrate private collections, hotels as well as restaurants, reveal the interiors of private residences while inviting themselves into the auction rooms.
The creations of Armand Jonckers are plural but exclusive; the MAISON only produces unique pieces, designed and crafted by hand.
In 2018, the trio of Maison Armand Jonckers is one of the first designers to install its more than 500 m2 workshops to ‘Zaventem Ateliers’.
