The Star Collection by Constance Guisset was originally designed as part of a project for the French Institute of Turkey in Ankara. The designer got involved in the project sheen winning a competition together with Turkish architect Gül Gulven. The task was to conceive the whole ground floor area, including the welcoming desk, the café-bar and a bookshop, with the challenge of designing furniture that would be realized by Turkish craftsmen in Turkey.
Making a great point in proposing a harmonious area while simplifying exchanged with a limited number of interlocutors, Guisset decided to design a whole collection with a single material combination: lower parts in plied metal and wooden tops. Moreover, the people’s circulation complexity in a space that is mainly a passingarea towards class rooms led him to consider the project with circular shapes that would be set like changing constellations.
Thus came the “Star collection”, from the name of the new area where the French Institute of Turkey in Ankara was moving to. It consists of fifteen elements like a stool, a bat stool, a coffee table, a large table, two bars, a welcoming desk, two shelves and five exhibition stands for the library. They are painted in grey nuances except for the main elements (bar-desk and cashier) which are recognizable from their black colour
