For the Maison, Bastien Coulon imagined a gathering of deities devouring refined chocolates. This hand-painted artwork, gilded with gold leaf, was then reproduced by a printer who used several techniques to capture the artist's hand on each box.
Based in Paris, Bastien was born with a pencil in hand. Coming from a family of artists, he spent more time drawing his teachers than listening to their lessons at school. It was at the École Supérieure des Arts Graphiques – Penninghen that he was finally allowed to express his passion and where he learned to master photography, calligraphy, and graphic design in all their forms. An expert in art direction and brand guidelines, he has never stopped using illustration and painting throughout nearly twenty years of a career in publishing (magazine art direction, website creation, graphic identity creation, art direction for advertising...). In recent years, his obsession with drawing has colonized every empty space in his daily life.
From his hand emerge a profusion of creatures intertwined with one another, without him being able to explain what world they come from. Sometimes nymphs expressing the sacred feminine, sometimes playing with wild animals, death, fertility, and eternal recurrence, these female bodies have drawn attention on Instagram. Over the months, other portraits were born, sometimes painted in acrylic on canvas, others on kraft cardboard mixing pastels, watercolor, and gold leaf.
