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As a child, the French design artist Marlène Huissoud helped her beekeeping parents tend hives in the Alps. As an adult, she helps the honeybees – and other insects, too – by creating whimsical limited-edition sculptures and furniture from natural materials such as silkworm cocoons and honeybee resin.
“I really want to educate people and raise awareness about the importance of insects and biodiversity in our lives,” she tells me in her studio on the ground floor of a 1930s townhouse in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-sous-Bois. “I want to open a dialogue between humans and insects.” To do that, she says,“I develop different artefacts – I don’t call them objects or sculptures – to emphasise the voice of the insect in the human world.”
