Lucas Lecacheur: The Designer Who Turns Boards into Art
"My goal is to help people dream more and accept their own ideas."
A Rock Musician’s Second Act
Lucas Lecacheur, a French designer and former rock musician, creates surfboards and skateboards with unconventional designs that remain fully functional. His creations include a board split to resemble crab pincers, a stingray-like board, a webbed board akin to a duck's foot, and a flame-shaped red skateboard.
From Île de Ré to the World
Growing up on the island of Île de Ré, Lecacheur is known for boards like the Brutalist, an angular design, and the Medusa, a pearlescent board with a flexible tail. He tests his boards personally, describing the experience as feeling like a beginner again.
Melbourne Design Week Residency
Currently in Australia for Melbourne Design Week, Lecacheur operates from the At The Above gallery in Fitzroy. He sleeps in the gallery during his six-week residency.
For the event, he created two new surfboards:
- Château Rouge: A 10-foot board with a cowboy boot nose and forked tail.
- A board dragged behind a vehicle in the Australian bush to collect debris, which will be cast in resin.
Experimental Fins and Global Reach
The exhibition also displays his experimental fin designs, including a spiked metal fin named Total Mayhem, the Hook, and Bat Fin no.6. His Guillotine board is held in a Tokyo gallery. He maintains followings in Japan and the US.
The White Fin Project
Lecacheur also runs the White Fin Project, a photography series where he attaches a white surfboard fin to various objects, such as a grandfather clock or the Eiffel Tower.