Designer Pierre Charpin and Saint-Louis composed a new contemporary lifestyle collection. From tableware to lighting, through barware and decoration, objects ring true. Cadence is set to music by Pierre Charpin’s drawings and born of an orchestrated symphony within the crystal manufacture. A rich score in tune with today.
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance conceived the Folia collection as an initiatory journey through the manufacture and forest of Saint-Louis, as a vibrant tribute. A sculptor of materials, close to nature, he imagined, for this very first transverse collection, the vibrant combination of crystal and wood, the simplicity of lines, the modernity of uses.
It was while looking at the huge supply of moulds in the Saint-Louis warehouse that Kiki van Eijk had one of her sure-fire flashes of inspiration. She felt the stirrings of an intense, carnivalesque idea. She would make a crystal lamp in the shape of a mould. Opening it up by hand would liberate the light inside, softened by a Japanese paper screen. And because she would be giving birth to these new creations, she would call the collection “Matrice”, French for “matrix”.