A woman and a man sitting on a bench outdoors, looking at the camera. The woman is wearing glasses, a headscarf, and a black shirt with crest patches. The man is wearing glasses and a yellow sweater. They are near a concrete wall with greenery in the background.

KARINE ARABIAN
Trained at ESMOD and Studio Berçot, Karine Arabian made her mark in 1994 by winning the International Festival of Fashion in Hyères in the accessories category. For six years, she collaborated with prestigious houses such as Swarovski and Chanel, crafting a unique and elegant universe. In 2000, she launched her own brand of shoes and leather goods, quickly gaining recognition in France and internationally. Her success was celebrated in 2007 with an exhibition at the Musée de la Mode in Marseille. Over fourteen years, her iconic creations captivated Parisian women as well as international stars, including Audrey Tautou, Vanessa Paradis, Scarlett Johansson, Madonna, and Beth Ditto, leaving a lasting impression on the fashion world.

FRANCK BLAIS
A graduate of the Beaux-Arts, Franck Blais began his career as a set and costume designer, moving between the Parisian music scene and emerging French choreographic productions. In 1999, he designed the visual identity for FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain), merging his passion for art and graphic design. He later collaborated with cultural institutions as well as luxury brands including Gucci, Rochas, Givenchy, Fendi, and Cartier, working as an independent artistic director. In 2008, he founded Warmgrey, a visual communication agency, and L’Espace d’en bas, a contemporary art gallery.

JN MELLOR CLUB
In 2019, the artist duo Karine Arabian and Franck Blais launched JN Mellor Club, a creative platform for crafting radical and iconoclastic objects. Building on a rich and multifaceted background, they initiated a deliberate evolution—shifting their practice from accessory to object, from object to a fluid, undefinable output at the intersection of design, art, and the poetics of the everyday.
In the body of work of Karine Arabian and Franck Blais (JN Mellor Club), it is just as important to create artefacts as it is to offer them possibilities for use and conditions for displacement.
Combining practices—sculpture, design, and everyday poetry—while blurring references and inspirations invites engagement and interpretation. Each piece becomes an open proposition, an opportunity to question the notion of preciousness in the shaping of human experiences and the mythologies it conveys.
JN Mellor Club develops a unique approach made up of assemblages, compositions of industrial and organic materials or waste from deadstocks, and the experimental use of artisanal techniques.
Collecting natural volumes like urban archaeologists as they wander through the city, gathering fragments and discarded materials, then organizing them according to a poetic genealogy in order to construct the framework of a fictional narrative.
JN Mellor Club explores the porosity between gesture and ritual, searches the interstices of everyday life for the magical dimension of objects, transposes residue into preciousness, into fetish, and develops a repertoire composed of fragments that become the sensitive material of an imaginary narrative.
Today, their transdisciplinary practice finds its place in contemporary art galleries, design fairs, and luxury houses, while also intersecting with live performance. Through these collaborations, their object-sculptures invite engagement and reinterpretation. Each piece becomes an open-ended proposition—an opportunity to rethink the role of objects in shaping human experiences and the mythologies they carry.