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Meet The Unique Artists Whose Work Will Be At Playtime Winter 26 
Every season, our Artistic Director, Laëtitia, and our Set Designer, Amélie, search for unique artists whose work can elevate the events to meet their high standards. Helping to bring Laëtitia and Amélie’s vision to life , these creatives take the trend spaces and VIP Buyer & Press area to the next level, helping to embody the concepts and themes on display there. From ceramics to knotted materials, upcycling to working in collaboration with others, the unique artists chosen to display their work this season are perfectly aligned with our theme, “Made With Love”. Acting as essential resources for inspiration, you won’t want to miss discovering their work!
To get you even more excited for the winter editions of Playtime Paris and Playtime New York, let us introduce you to these three unique artists and their work!
MéandresJeanne Goutelle is a textile designer who explores materials and colors. Her work is part of the revival of textile arts, particularly tapestry and rug making. She creates at the intersection of art, craft, and design, with an architectural dimension. She braids, weaves, knots, and interlaces to create connections in the form of textile surfaces. For several years, her collections of ribbons and straps, testaments to local industrial expertise, have become the raw materials for her creations. Upcycling is at the heart of Jeanne’s approach.
Having completed her education at the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris, Jeanne has twenty five years of diverse experiences in the world of textiles. After a professional career that took her to India, Brazil, and England, Jeanne settled in Saint-Étienne in 2017 to be closer to a French textile industrial region that she knows well, having grown up there.
Today, Jeanne works in the field of contemporary art, creating large-format pieces and site-specific installations. She also works on commissions for architects, brands, and set designers, creating interior design elements. The partitions, wall coverings, and screens she designs are incorporated into retail spaces, events, hotels, and offices.
Explore her work in the Allusion fashion trend space.
OriginesVirginie Pommel, also known as Elpom, is a ceramic artist. Born in 1979 in Strasbourg, she now lives and works in Lyon. Through her work, Virginie explores our intimate relationship with objects over time. Blurring the lines between art and design, her sculptural objects live with us and bring us a sense of calm. A former biology engineer, Virginie draws inspiration from the forms of the living world. Cellular landscapes seen under a microscope become organic furniture. Trees and birds of the Vosges forest become candlesticks and carafes.
Having practiced ceramics for twenty years, Virginie studied under renowned ceramic artists like the German artist Monika Debus and the Japanese artist Shozo Michikawa. Ceramics became a liberating form of expression and an anchor to the present moment.
In 2020, Virginie founded the Studio Elpom Ceramics in Lyon, then co-founded the Gadoue workshop, a large collective studio and exhibition space dedicated to ceramics. In this space, her pieces have evolved towards large-format furniture and sculptures. Her work, from her Organelles, Origines, and Vanitas series, have been exhibited in art galleries in Paris and Lyon. She has also participated in Paris Design Week, Milan Design Week, and in PAD Paris and PAD London.
The stoneware Virginie works with is a material steeped in history. With it she creates precious works, skillfully structured or energetically deconstructed. She makes organic and ergonomic forms that connect the hand to the object and nourish the soul.
Her work will bring to life the Dusk fashion trend space.
Diane Diebold develops a prestigious textile art craft based in the mastery of knotting as a technical and creative language. Using this ancestral savoir-faire, she designs unique, flexible materials. Convinced that the intersection of craftsmanship and design can open new avenues, she conducts research into materials capable of interacting with knotting techniques. Having graduated with a degree in product design, Diane specialized in textiles very early in her career. Her discovery of knotting techniques during an internship with Laurentine Perilhou marked a turning point: she trained with her and then continued to learn independently.
Diane’s work involves developing a range of exceptional samples and producing unique pieces or small series. The applications are diverse: furniture, interior design, packaging, fashion and accessories. Each creation stems from an experimental approach combining pattern research, raw materials, and an exploration of the diversity of knots. Guided by her designer’s sensibility and her artisanal expertise, Diane transforms a traditional technique into contemporary applications, revealing the unique qualities of the art of knotting: flexibility, density, rhythm, and texture.
Discover her work in the VIP and Press space.
We can’t wait to discover the work of these unique artists, and are sure you can’t either! Click here to get your pass to the winter editions of Playtime Paris (January 24-26) and Playtime New York (February 8-10).
If you’d like to learn about Laëtitia and Amélie as well, read their parts in our team article here. As the creative minds behind the entire universe you step into in Paris and New York, you won’t want to miss learning more about their creative process.
