Hachure

It was bound to happen sooner or later that Pierre Charpin would meet the
Design Collection of Abet Laminati.
His graphic signature seems made to be expressed in a decorative laminate.

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“Hachure” moves between the torment of the lines to the suggestion of the colour field. The result surprises with the dynamism of an only apparently simple drawing.

In the “Hachure” collection for Abet Laminati, Pierre Charpin, master of overcoming the division between artistic disciplines, proposes a remarkable synthesis between these two worlds: that is, the line, to which full fills are contrasted.
Lines that intersect and overlap, differentiated in bold, medium and light, produce a rigorous design, a wide-knit texture that also transforms into denser designs, so that from a distance, the whole takes on the value of a uniform and continuous surface.

“I feel I can affirm that my first aesthetic emotions were formed around lines. Crossed lines, both perpendicular and oblique, that formed hatching surfaces.”

“When Guilio Iacchetti and Matteo Ragni proposed I design a collection of decors for
Abet Laminati, I had no hesitation in gladly accepting their invitation. For two reasons: facing a project whose sole component is to design a surface, which naturally aligns with the continuity of my drawing practice, and contributing, even modestly, to the history of Abet Laminati.”

Pierre Charpin, April 2025