Marie Laure Bourgeois and Vincent Bécheau are two architects and teachers born in Paris and the Dordogne respectively in 1955, but when it comes to creation, they are one and the same. In 1981, they left the capital for the Dordogne where they have lived and worked ever since. Since then, they have been known for designing objects, street furniture (notably for the city of Bruges) and public space design. They have won numerous competitions: 1983 - Progressive Architecture, 1988 - Artemide, 1991 - International Councyl Society of Design. In 1988, following an invitation from Shiro Kuramata and the Yamagiwa Corporation, they participated in the exhibition In-Spiration Lighting. As modern-day archaeologists, they develop an inventive activity that gives pride of place to research into materials, techniques in unexplored fields and a primordial place to space, to the environment of their pieces. The artists see them as architects and vice versa, which is proof of the great freedom of their work. As design theorist and critic Jeanne Queheillard said: "They have been known since 1980 for their furniture in acidulous undulin and their research into materials. (...) They constantly combine their technical research with social and political reflection. (...) For the Bécheau-Bourgeois, design is no longer about the object. "