Ionna Vautrin

Ionna Vautrin (born 1979) is a French artist, illustrator, and designer.

Early life and education Ionna Vautrin was born in Hennebont, Brittany. She studied at the École de design Nantes Atlantique, and graduated in 2002. Prior to founding her own design studio, Vautrin worked for Camper in Spain, George Sowden in Italy, and the Bouroullec brothers in France.

Career Vautrin has designed products for companies and clients such as Christian Dior, JCDecaux, Monoprix, Schneider Electric, , and the French national railways, for which she designed interior aspects of its TGV trains. In 2024, she was selected by the Archdiocese of Paris to design the new seating and pews for the renovation of Notre-Dame de Paris following the 2019 fire which gutted the cathedral.

Her work has been exhibited widely and is in public collections in France and internationally.

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