Since the beginning of his career (a 1990 graduate of Paris' ENSCI-Les Ateliers, Paris Design Institute), Jean-Marie Massaud has been working on an extensive range of works, stretching from architecture to objects, from one-off project to serial ones, from macro environment down to micro-contexts. Major brands such as B&B Italia, Cassina, Christofle, Dior, Poliform, Poltrona Frau, Lancôme have solicited his ability to mix comfort and elegance, zeitgeist and heritage, generosity and distinction.

Beyond these elegant designs, his quest for lightness - in matters of essence - synthesize three broader stakes: individual and collective fulfillment, economic and industrial efficiency, and environmental concerns. "I'm trying to find an honest, generous path with the idea that, somewhere between the hard economic data, There are users, there are People."
His creations, whether speculative or pragmatic, explore this imperative paradigm: reconciling pleasure with responsibility, the individual with the collective.

When asked to imagine a new stadium for the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, he returned with a novel building in the shape of a cloud and a volcano, integrated into a vast urban development program that would bring together leisure and culture, nature and urbanization, sports aficionados and local citizens. Instead of a stadium, he proposed an environment. And the initial vision proved realistic: the project saw the light of day in July 2011.

"When I'm working on a project, there's always an attempt to renew the subject I'm involved in." Another distinctive aspect of his approach.
He also received numerous prizes and awards, including Designer of the year, Compasso d'Oro and Red Dot Design Award Best of the Best.

His works are nowadays on show in the design collections of the major museums worldwide: from Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Paris and Zurich: from the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne de Paris to the permanent collections of the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, of The Chicago Athenaeum-Museum of Architecture and Design, of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and of The Musée des arts Décoratifs, Paris.

RAMUN Louise, Manned Cloud, Ghosthome, Nemo, In Out, Outline, Aspen, Terminal 1, Wallace, Volcano Stadium, Flow Slim, Mondrian, Mimicry and many other influential projects.