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horizon series | Jean-Baptiste Anotin
”I’m the founder and creative director of Waiting For Ideas, a studio working at the intersection of art and design. Through it, I create objects, furniture, installations and spatial experiences that question our relationship to form, time and matter. I’m particularly interested in how people physically and emotionally interact with objects and space.”
“Traveling creates distance. And distance creates clarity. When I leave Paris, I see my own culture differently. I learn from other cultures, their techniques, their relationship to time and craft. It opens your mind and challenges your habits. Each place leaves a subtle imprint, and when I return home, something inside me has shifted.”
“Creation, for me, is a way of understanding myself and the world around me. It’s not only about producing objects; it’s about building connections — between ideas, materials, cultures, and people. I’m not searching for something grand or abstract — just alignment, clarity, and a life that feels consciously lived.”
“Looking to the horizon, I search for meaningful experiences — creating, learning, traveling, connecting with people, and hopefully surfing more. I’m trying to become more present and more optimistic. We’re incredibly fortunate to live the way we do, and I don’t want to take that for granted.”
For the latest chapter of côte&ciel’s Horizon Series, we turn our attention to the work of Jean‑Baptiste Anotin, founder of the Paris-based studio Waiting For Ideas. His practice exists in a similar territory to côte&ciel’s own design language, occupying the space where art, architecture, and product dissolve into one another.
Founded in 2021, Waiting For Ideas operates at the interface between art and design. Rather than confining itself to a single discipline, the Paris studio moves fluidly across furniture, objects, installations, and spatial environments. Each project begins with a simple premise: design should provoke curiosity.
Founded in 2021, Waiting For Ideas operates at the interface between art and design. Rather than confining itself to a single discipline, the Paris studio moves fluidly across furniture, objects, installations, and spatial environments. Each project begins with a simple premise: design should provoke curiosity.
Under the direction of Jean-Baptiste, the studio has quickly developed a reputation for producing visually striking yet conceptually grounded works. Despite the diversity of his projects, the underlying philosophy remains constant. Waiting For Ideas approaches every object as an opportunity to question its own existence. A table is not just a surface, a retail space is not simply a room, and a product is never only a product. Each becomes a narrative device.
Central to this approach is collaboration. Jean-Baptise frequently works alongside artists whose practices introduce new perspectives into the design process. Partnerships with sculptor Guillaume Grando, painter Iris Marchand, photographer Mathilde Hiley, and set designer Pierre Vaillant demonstrate a belief that the most compelling objects emerge when disciplines overlap. Rather than treating art and design as separate worlds, his studio deliberately collapses the distinction. Materials behave like sculpture. Furniture becomes installation.
Central to this approach is collaboration. Jean-Baptise frequently works alongside artists whose practices introduce new perspectives into the design process. Partnerships with sculptor Guillaume Grando, painter Iris Marchand, photographer Mathilde Hiley, and set designer Pierre Vaillant demonstrate a belief that the most compelling objects emerge when disciplines overlap. Rather than treating art and design as separate worlds, his studio deliberately collapses the distinction. Materials behave like sculpture. Furniture becomes installation.
It is precisely this fluid thinking that resonates with côte&ciel’s design ethos. Much like Waiting For Ideas, the brand approaches objects as forms shaped by movement, architecture, and the body. Bags become landscapes of folds and volumes, surfaces that respond to gravity, weight, and balance.
Where Jean-Baptise investigates how objects occupy space, côte&ciel explores how objects travel through it. Both share a fascination with form as a living structure rather than a static silhouette. Curves emerge from function, folds create new volumes, and the object itself becomes an evolving geometry.
Where Jean-Baptise investigates how objects occupy space, côte&ciel explores how objects travel through it. Both share a fascination with form as a living structure rather than a static silhouette. Curves emerge from function, folds create new volumes, and the object itself becomes an evolving geometry.
Jean-Baptiste Anotin’s work often reflects this same sculptural logic. Many of his studio’s pieces appear simultaneously precise and playful, balancing architectural clarity with an instinctive sense of experimentation. They feel designed, yet also discovered, as if their shapes emerged naturally from the forces acting upon them.
This sensitivity to structure mirrors côte&ciel’s own process. The Horizon Series reflects the idea that design is not only about aesthetics, but about how an object behaves in relation to its environment and the person carrying it.
This sensitivity to structure mirrors côte&ciel’s own process. The Horizon Series reflects the idea that design is not only about aesthetics, but about how an object behaves in relation to its environment and the person carrying it.
