Lionel Jadot

Lionel Jadot is not simply a designer. He is a world-builder, a creative agitator who transforms fragments of the past into manifestos for the present. For over thirty years, he has blurred the lines between architecture, art and craftsmanship to invent a radically free language.

Coming from a long lineage of artisans, Jadot was introduced to manual skills at an early age. Guided more by instinct than by rules, he developed a singular practice where inherited craft traditions meet raw experimentation. Today, he is recognized for his multidisciplinary approach, at the crossroads of design, architecture and contemporary art. 

For Lionel Jadot, each creation is a manifesto. 
He rejects mass production, marketing logic and aesthetic obedience. His works are confrontations: collages of memory, waste, and unapologetically raw matter. 

• Rebellion against rules: “Rules are part of the problem.” 

• Memory of materials: fragments, forgotten objects and abandoned matter become the foundation for new narratives. 

• Radical imagination: no models, no excuses, only freedom and friction. 

For more than three decades, Jadot has collected remnants of other lives: discarded objects, forgotten materials, traces of time. These elements are assembled into new forms, given a second existence. His practice is nourished by reuse, recycling, and the raw honesty of matter. 

The following pieces by Lionel Jadot are available exclusively through Soleille Gallery. Each is unique or produced in a strictly limited edition, crafted with the artist’s signature approach to reclaimed materials and radical imagination.