Michèle Lamy, agent of change, on the artists to lead us into the future

Co-founder of Owenscorp, artist, performer, agent of change: Michèle Lamy on her conduits to co-creation, and five creatives who can lead us into the future – whom she champions as part of Wallpaper’s 25th anniversary ‘5x5’ project

Michèle Lamy is a mesmeric force of intention. As a co-founding partner of Owenscorp and the executive manager of the, her life is a tactile one. The jewelled mouth, the smudged blackened fingertips, the clank of bangles and the dulcet French drawl are Lamy’s talismanic armour and invitation. She creates opulently monastic home furnishings and sculptures in metal, bone, wood, cement and stone – and cocoons herself in silk, wool, leather, nylon and languid plumes of cigarette smoke.

When we speak via Zoom in mid-August, Lamy is fresh from an appointment with the butcher. ‘We have been doing some furniture pieces in ox bone, which looks just like ivory, and we needed some more,’ she says. ‘The artisans at the atelier like it so much because they always get a serving of filet mignon too.

What Lamy wants to do is use the formidable circle of artists, musicians, designers, philosophers, chefs, and even boxers around her to piece together an idea of where our lives are headed. Recently, she has been posing the question ‘What Are We Fighting For?’, taking inspiration from the slogan used by her friends at the Overthrow Boxing Club, a Manhattan gym with a philanthropic mission. It is, she admits, a big question that needs an even bigger answer.

In Milan last year she hosted a day of multidisciplinary discussions to unpick the provocation, while travelling around on a

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