Project in collaboration with Céline Pelcé and Lukas Gamard, photos of the installation by Mathias De lattre.

Lisa Klein Michel has documented the manufacturing.

Marquetry is the art of assembling materials of different natures and colors, aiming to build a pattern. It is one of the rare crafts that could not be fully automated or industrialized, and the object inlaid through the ages.

"André-Charles is a sugar" - named after the French cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle, asks questions about the production system, through the manufacture of an ephemeral marquetry. Caramel steles, serial and yet unique, are made from refined sugar from industry, and the technique comes from the marquetry.

Caramel stelae, breeze blocks, pincers.

Dimensions: 950 x 450 mm.

Food Plant, Paris Food Art Week, 2016

© 2016 Dimitry Hlinka / Céline Pelcé / Lukas Gamard / All rights reserved.