In the early 1990s, Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz morphed into the two man studio Antoine+Manuel. Like cartoon characters discovering super strength, this transformation gave the designers a new identity and changed the way they practiced their craft. With their powers combined as Antoine+Manuel, the pair lives, works, designs, and creates together. Influenced by television, music, architecture, and children's books, Antoine+Manuel create a rich world of stylish daydreams that is both whimsical and elegant, cartoonish, and sophisticated, retro and fresh. They think of their projects as playgrounds and have been fortunate that clients like Christian Lacroix, Domestic, and the Collection Lambert en Avignon have given them absolute freedom to experiments with special materials and printing techniques. their elaborate and detailed work are rich with meaning. It's easy to spend hours following every curve and pattern, finding a seemingly endless web of mischievous little details.

(from Area 2, published by Phaidon )