Gaspard Fleury-Dugy

Gaspard Fleury-Dugyis a Paris-based designer and visual artist. His practice is nourished by textile techniques and the graphic vocabulary they unfold. For him, loops, stitches, and lines become the elements of a vibrant and joyful language. Celebrated internationally for his knitted sculptures, he is also a trapeze artist and likes to view his work as a sequence of supple and colorful pirouettes.

Trained at the École Duperré in Paris and at the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås (Sweden), he developed from early on a distinctive universe where machine, digital technology, handcraft, and mind converge. For Gaspard Fleury-Dugy, knitting is building. In 2021, at just 22 years old, he distinguished himself by his ability to hack the industrial knitting machine—his “pencil”—to invent a new language in which yarn becomes volume, structure, and architecture. His knitted sculptures stand at the crossroads of technological innovation, fine craftsmanship, and imagination. Having rigorously programmed the knitting digitally, he then undertakes a hand re-knitting to bring the knit into volume and transform it into a genuine textile micro-architecture.

His first collection, ‘Soft Objects’, unveils three-dimensional pieces with a strong and immediately recognizable visual identity. These knitted sculptures, with their organic forms and futuristic accents, evoke at once ancient amphorae, the curves of Oscar Niemeyer, the graphic world of the Memphis movement, and the pixelated aesthetics of the digital age. Fluorescent colors, inspired by sportswear, emphasize folds and tensions, endowing each piece with an almost vibratory intensity.

Winner of the 2023 Sisley Young Creators Grant, he has confirmed a rising trajectory through the Design Weeks of Paris, Milan, Eindhoven, and Stockholm. In 2024, his work was presented in the window display of the Centre Pompidou boutique in Paris. In 2025, he is the only French designer selected for the exhibition ‘Design Beyond Things: A collective exhibition representing the new lexicon of European design’,at the European Pavilion of the World Expo in Osaka, Japan. The same year, he also takes part in ‘Design Disco Club’at the Fondation Lafayette Anticipations, an exhibition highlighting a new generation of creators redefining the boundaries of contemporary design andarchitecture.

A rising figure on the international scene of textile design, Gaspard Fleury-Dugy continues hisresearch between knitted sculptures, light experiments, and graphic works. A collection of knitted lamps is currently in preparation, while his works on paper, combining painting and drawing, extend his textile language into a graphic dimension.

Born in 1999, Gaspard Fleury-Dugy graduated in Applied Arts from the École Duperré in Paris (2021) and holds a Master’s degree in Textile Design from the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås (Sweden, 2023). He lives and works in Paris.