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French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance Elegance underlines the acclaimed designer’s work. Whether it’s objects or spaces, Duchaufour-Lawrance highlights materials with natural shapes and organic lines, enhanced with authenticity and details that encourage one to reconnect with nature. Take his latest collection, Burnt Cork, for example. Created through his Portugal-based studio Made in Situ, the design maestro used burnt cork to sculpt a contemporary collection that encourages one to rethink the properties of the often-overlooked material. Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, pictured with a chaise lounge from the Burnt Cork collection Photography: Nuno Sousa Dias “When I moved to Portugal in 2017, I drove through the dramatic forest fires near the mountainous area of Pedrógão Grande,” Duchaufour-Lawrance explains. “Seeing the devastated landscapes had a lasting impact on me. I guess it is not a conventional source of inspiration seeing as fires are very dam ....