Fabien Roy

Fabien Roy is a Swiss architect and product designer based at the foot of the Jura vaudois. He graduated in architecture from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Fribourg in 2006 and completed a master’s in product design at ECAL, Lausanne, in 2020. His practice covers furniture, industrial design, interior architecture and scenography, often through collaborations with art, science and craft.

Roy’s work addresses social and environmental questions, and includes research into wooden furniture sourced and made locally in his region. He has received the Design Prize Switzerland and the James Dyson Award Switzerland and was nominated twice for the Swiss Design Awards. His pieces have been shown at Milan Design Week, Art Basel and Dutch Design Week and are held by the Mudac.