Manifesto

BIOMBO explores the dialogue between architectural structure and hand weaving. Made from solid iroko and waxed cotton cord, each piece sits at the border between contemporary furniture and textile sculpture. Every structure is built by a partner cabinetmaker, and every weave is done entirely by hand by Arielle Gentil in Paris.

After several years in commercial photography, Arielle Gentil chose to turn toward a practice more directly tied to material and gesture. Trained in upholstery at La Bonne Graine in Paris, she gradually developed a personal language at the crossroads of craft, design and textile research.

Her work is rooted in a close attention to light — a sensibility inherited from photography that now guides each of her creations. Through waxed cotton cord stretched across solid iroko structures, she composes graphic surfaces where the weave becomes drawing, rhythm and architecture.

Moving away from traditional rush- and cane-weaving techniques, Arielle Gentil repurposes these skills to explore new forms. The taut lines of the cord create geometric patterns that reveal their complexity through shadow, shifting light and the viewer's point of view.

Handmade in Paris, BIOMBO pieces sit at the border between contemporary furniture and textile sculpture — a search for balance between structural rigor, graphic sensibility and luminous presence.