Dot to Dots
Designed in France. Made Locally.
Dot to Dots designs and delivers New Luxury in the form of locally produced, limited edition state-of-the-art objects and furniture pieces.
We believe in connecting sense-making and efficiency, so we designed Dot to Dots to reduce waste and footprint through redesigning the value chain, developing a more agile model, whilst elevating quality of products and making exclusivity more accessible.
The debut collection of Dot to Dots, designed by Marc Baroud offers seating, table, storage and lighting made to fit every interior. Their modernist materials (aluminum, glass, marble, steel...) are carefully sourced by the designer throughout independent and global companies in Europe and the Middle East and their production sites are expanding in Belgium, Italy, Lebanon and Portugal.
He spent two years on selecting artisans to develop this line of objects and pieces of furniture which fabrication is semi-industrial and naturally limited to a small number of items.
The radical idea of this brand relies on the vision of the creator and the know-how of the craftsmen he gathers. Each of its series is the result of a core system; a function and a modular shape that can be reproduced for special orders in different configurations, sizes and finishes.
Experience, originality, handiwork, uncompromising quality and sustainability drive Dot to Dots. Its digital and analog approach is fulfilled with short fabrication and distribution network and an honest price range. These parameters open future possibilities for other designers and artisans to design and produce for the brand.
A return program allowing customers to re-sell their “Dot to Dots” for new owners pushes forward this post-standard and direct-to-consumer concept into circular economy, across common practices and the expanding slow living movement in today’s fast-paced environment.
Marc Baroud is a cross-disciplinary designer. His enthusiasm for new ventures led him to practice his design method in various projects including ones that are seemingly unrelated to design.
In 2012, he founded the Design Department at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, which he directed from 2012 to 2017. His objective was to reform design education, whilst using his same design approach. The implemented curricula envision design as a broader discipline than one limited to creating aesthetics and artefacts.
Based in Paris and Beirut, he works on bridging his two cities and cultures, as well as across several applications of Design. His projects include commercial architecture, scenography, interior design, furniture, services and brand development. As a product designer, he works on a large scope of industrial, artisanal and experimental projects, consulting for private projects, start-ups, as well as big corporations.
Away from the form follows function paradigm, he designs objects with a method he calls materisation, which he defines as the transition from the state of idea to the state of object. His collectible works have been shown in Beirut, Brussels, Dubai, London, Milan, Paris, Design/Miami and Design/Miami Basel. His pieces are part of private and public institutions including Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs permanent collection.
