
Designer, author, and sexual anthropologist, Betony Vernon bridges the worlds of art, design, and erotic well-being. Her work is a lifelong mission to redefine the boundaries of beauty and pleasure.
About
BIOGRAPHY
“Nothing reveals the functionality of the objects Betony Vernon designs. Yet, her works are at the service of the body, exacerbated, loved. Betony Vernon is invested in the field of erotic and sensual doing. The development of her work is multidisciplinary, spanning sessions of practical teaching and curative sharing, the writing of her books The Boudoir Bible, Paradise Found and Pleasure as well as the design of sublime objects – jewels, sculpture, furniture, objets d’art and happenings. The most recent public happening was in Paris in at the Museum of Modern Art. Through this wide fan of mediums, non of which abstract the human body, Betony Vernon signs an aesthetic of wellness, a sophisticated interaction to the other and above all, to oneself.”
Michele Heuze.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Betony is available for public speaking engagements on the themes of design, erotica, sensual empowerment and sexual well-being for related conferences, organizations, television, podcasts and radio programming internationally. She has conducted work-shops and seminars for cultural institutions such as the European Institute of Design, Domus Academy, Les Beaux Arts Lyon, the Museum of Modern Art (Paris), IED Instituto Europeo di Design and Polimoda under the auspices of futurist Lidewij Edelkoort.
SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES
2024
Betony Vernon on Spirituality, Sex, Sensuality and the Erotic Body Realm
Mangu TV (Podcast)
2021
Women in Tech (Podcast with Bishi)
2019
I Am Heretic – “Dismantling the Pleasure Taboo” (Podcast with Douglas Little)
2018
Luxury Sex (Episode with Karly Slutever)
Viceland
2017
Interview with Vix Foster
Fashion TV
2016
Interview
Ovation TV
2016
Talk on sex, love, cinema & La Bible du Boudoir (augmented edition)
Europe 1, Radio France, Social Club
France
2015
Strange Forms of Pleasure (carte blanche)
Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur
Switzerland
2015
Interview with Antoine de Caunes
Canal+ France
France
2015
Sado-Chic Jewelry on Cara Delevigne Wax Sculpture
Grévin Musée, Paris
France
2014
Nirvana, Strange Forms of Pleasure
MUDAC Museum of Design and Contemporary Art, Lausanne
Switzerland
2013
Interview on Le Grand Journal
Canal+ France
France
2013
Interview on Salut les Terriens (Thierry Ardisson)
Canal+ France
France
2013
Interview with Rankin
Hunger TV
UK
2013
Interview with Nick Knight
SHOWstudio.com
UK
2013
Soul-less Shoes
GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig
Germany
2013
KAMA Sex and Design (carte blanche)
Triennale Design Museum, Milan
Italy
2012
Selling Sex
SHOWstudio, London
UK
2012
Polaroid Papillon (Short film by Olivier Zahm for Gucci-Fiat 500)
2011
Pirelli Calendar 2011
Karl Lagerfeld
Italy
2011
Interview – Sex Wiz Antoine
Canal+ France
France
2011
Le Paris du Boudoir (Art Critic Valérie Duponchelle)
Le Figaro
France
2011
Documentary on Female Pleasure (Frédérique Barraja)
Canal+ France
France
2011
Amor e Sexo (Interview)
TV Globo
Brazil
2011
Limited/Unlimited
Casanatense Library, Rome
Italy
2010
Mutantes (Pro-sex feminist documentary by Virginie Despentes)
France
2010
Focus on Betony Vernon (Interview)
Vogue.it
Italy
2009
En Attendant Minuit (Interview by 909 TV Productions)
France
2009
The Fashion Body (Curated by Nick Knight)
Somerset House, London
UK
2009
Red Light Design
Salone del Mobile, Milan
Italy
2008
Sex in Design, Design in Sex
Museum of Sex, New York
USA
2008
Interview for Contemporary Sex Workers (Documentary Film Series)
El País
Spain
2008
Le Boudoir (Didactic Programming, Writer & Host)
MTV Italy
Italy
2008
Interview for Sex TV
Canadian Public Broadcasting
Canada
2006
Interview with Mathieu Lecerf
Pink TV
France
2005
Interview with Frédéric Taddeï
Paris Dernier (Television)
France
2005
Touch Me
Victoria and Albert Museum, Contemporary Gallery, London
UK
2004
The Banquet (Online Event with Nick Knight)
SHOWstudio, London
UK
2003
Body Craze (Curated by Rankin)
Selfridges, London
UK
2002
Science of Love (Permanent Collection)
Fukui Prefecture Museum of Design
Japan




































































































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