Ronan Bouroullec

For more than thirty-five years, Ronan Bouroullec has been designing unique objects that easily become ubiquitous — objects that explore the relationships between individuals and their interior environments. The Breton designer has cultivated an unmistakable formal language that is both poetic and whimsical, achieved with great artistic integrity and sensitivity. From industrial design to craftsmanship, from large-scale production to more intimate research, from individual objects to public spaces, his creations span countless clients, mediums and fields of expression.

Explore Ronan Bouroullec’s approach to colour in his Colour Conversation with Blēo — part of an ongoing series with leading voices in design, architecture, and art. Each conversation offers insight into how colour is used as a material to shape expressive, balanced, and enduring spaces. Read it here.

Demi Ton by Ronan Bouroullec

Ronan Bouroullec has developed a palette that works for night and daytime, for warm and cold light, for the North and South. Hence the name, Demi Ton, ‘half-tone’ in French. The palette is 50/50, half and half. Demi Ton is like a great ice cream parlour – there’s a flavour for everyone. You taste the 20 colours as you see them. They taste good, even delicate. Fresh, elemental, and like everything Bouroullec is involved in, developed with precision and sensitivity.