Artefact 11 by Lionel Jadot

Layers of cardboard, hardened with resin, are fossilized into something that looks older than it is, already carrying the weight of history. Steel holds it upright, as if displayed in a museum of tomorrow. Chains and beads hang from it like relics, suspended between ornament and ritual. Every material carries its own story. Cardboard once carried goods. Resin freezes time. Steel carries the force of construction. Together they form a fiction of survival, an artefact that questions what remains when culture is stripped to fragments. This object is not nostalgic. It is speculative. It asks you to consider the present as tomorrow’s ruin, and the ruin as a beginning.

• Cardboard, Resin & Steel
• 79 x 70 x 140 cm
  
• Design Year: 2025
• Edition: Unique
• Production: Handmade in Belgium

THE ARTIST

Lionel Jadot is not just a designer. He’s a disruptor, a builder of new worlds from the ruins of the old. For over three decades, he has collected the fragments, discarded objects, forgotten materials, gifted remnants of other lives, and used them to craft a practice that defies categories. Architect, artist, maker, provocateur. His work rejects mass production, marketing logic, and aesthetic obedience. Born into a lineage of craftsmanship but guided by instinct, Jadot doesn’t follow rules, because rules are part of the problem. His creations are physical manifestos. Confrontations. Collages of memory, waste, and raw material honesty. In the age of the Anthropocene, where humans have become the planet’s dominant force, Jadot’s work is a rebellion. Against overconsumption. Against forgetfulness. Against the myth that new is better. He doesn’t design for trends. He designs to wake people up. No templates. No apologies. Just freedom, friction, and fierce imagination.

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