Born in 1965 in Chalons en Champagne, France. She lives and works in Paris.

Matali Crasset, trained as an industrial designer and graduated from the E.N.S.C.I. studios. Following her first experiments alongside Denis Santachiara in Italy and Philippe Starck in France, she set up her studio in Paris, in an old renovated printing works in the heart of Belleville. It's here, amongst children and neighbours, that she conceives her projects.

Since the nineties, she considers herself her career as a designer in a global manner. Casting an expert yet fresh eye on the world, she questions the blatancy of codes striving to increase her own sense of liberation. The image of her emblematic object the column of hospitality "Quand Jim monte à Paris", started with a subtle observation of the uses and connections she makes between space and everyday objects. These proposals will thus never simply progress from existing ones, they will develop, without haste, typologies structured around theories such as modularity, reticularity… Her work consists of looking for new organizer principles, and formulating new meanings of life. She defines this research as an accompaniment towards the contemporary.

Matali Crasset teams up with various actors, as well as people who investigate new ways of living, manufacturers who are keen to experiment, hoteliers who want to develop a new concept (Hi hotel in Nice), a small rural community wanting to promote its cultural and social dynamic and the Museum which hopes to transform itself (SM's in Hertogenbosch in Holland). Always searching for new territory to explore, she collaborates with diverse worlds, from craftsmen to electro djs, from the textile industry to fair trade, completing various projects, which focus on scenography, furniture, architecture, graphic design, joining forces with artists.