Champagne Thiénot launches Graphito Magnum

Champagne Thiénot has teamed up with Speedy Graphito to design a limited edition magnum adorned with the street artist’s colourful and cartoonish graphics.

The somewhat unlikely partnership came about following an encounter between Speedy Graphito, otherwise known as Oliver Rizzo, and Garance Thiénot, who runs Maison Thiénot with her brother Stanislas.

“My meeting with the Thiénot family made me want a collaboration to express all the youth and dynamism of this company”, said the artist. “I share this paradoxical philosophy of tradition and modernity. I created the opportunity for visually evoking celebration, lightness, sparkling life like bubbles fleeting thoughts in the colours of the brand.”

Garance meanwhile had been following the career of Speedy for several years, describing the artist as one of France’s pioneers of urban art.

Explaining his connection to Champagne Thiénot, the Champagne house noted that Speedy’s career in many ways mirrors its own, recognising that France’s urban street art movement took root in the 1980s, and was growing just as Champagne Thiénot, created in 1985, began its expansion.

“The choice of Thiénot echoes the very DNA of street art, a visual art that flourishes in public areas, which means for all to see”, said a spokesperson for Champagne Thiénot. “This is a Champagne that likewise is accessible to the greatest number of Champagne lovers and carries Thiénot’s unique signature.”

The partnership has resulted in a limited edition magnum of Thiénot Brut, and an exclusive single work of ar0 (below), signed by Speedy Graphito.