Alexia Audrain

Alexia Audrain is a French designer based in Nantes. She trained through a two-year apprenticeship in upholstery and a six-year apprenticeship in cabinetmaking, and founded LABAA with her business partner Corentin Lemaitre to design furniture for people with autism spectrum disorders.

Her OTO chair, developed in 2019 with the team of ADAPEI 44 and young users at the IME in Blain, is a modular seat in recycled polypropylene that hugs the body to provide deep pressure and sensory regulation: mono-material, fully recyclable and assembled without screws, it is usable by anyone. Since 2021 LABAA has worked with the Exact-t team at CHRU Tours on a clinical study of the chair’s benefits, and OTO has been recognised by innovation awards in France.