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Collaborations | 07.04.2026
Introducing Julie Jonquet-Caunes
Text: Cécile Figuette
Images: Bien Fait
For her first collaboration with Bien Fait, Julie Jonquet-Caunes presents a series of four designs that translate her work as an illustrator to the scale of the wall.
Based in Paris, she works at the intersection of graphic design and illustration. After several years at the auction house Artcurial, she has developed an independent practice since 2015, focusing on drawing as a way to explore objects, forms and their underlying structures.
Her work is primarily created with coloured pencil. Through this medium, she builds compositions that are both precise and expressive, where lines, textures and tonal variations come together in a controlled yet sensitive balance.
Her chromatic palette remains subtle, almost muted. It reflects a particular attention to materials — surfaces that suggest touch as much as sight, from weathered wood to smooth, curved forms.
"Her chromatic palette — tonal, almost muted — will speak to lovers of fine materials, to those who run their hands along weathered wood, cup their palms around the hollow of a shell, and delight in the slide of ribbons. I hope this series speaks to you as much as it does to me."
Cécile Figuette, Creative Director
Dominos
Domino takes the game’s tile as its motif. The pieces fall into loose vertical alignments, creating a quiet rhythm across the surface. The composition feels both ordered and casual, as if the game were paused mid-play.
Pelagos
Pelagos gathers shells and ceramic vessels into a dense still life. Amphora-like forms sit among scallop shells and marine textures. The imagery hints at archaeology as much as the seaside, suggesting objects collected, studied, and rearranged.
Scala
Scala explores architectural space through a sequence of spiralling staircases. The repetition creates an optical effect, with staircases folding into one another and producing a sense of depth within the flat pattern.
Bow
Bow is built from long ribbons forms that twist and intersect across the surface. The lines loop and knot in a loose choreography, balancing movement with the softness of the coloured pencil technique.
From drawing to wallpaper
Transposed to wallpaper, Julie Jonquet-Caunes’ work retains the qualities of the original drawings. The softness of the coloured pencil, the precision of the line, and the balance of the compositions remain intact at a larger scale.
Rather than simply enlarging a pattern, the process preserves the logic of the drawing — its rhythm, its structure, and its relationship to the surface.
The result is a collection where each design functions both as a composition and as a wall covering, bringing together graphic clarity and material sensitivity.
