Of all the products I’ve presented, I think iron is the most misunderstood of all products.
However, elegance is never born solely from good design; it also comes from working with iron,
and this aspect seems completely overlooked.
For there is iron that is bent and cut, and this is the kind we see everywhere,
but there is also iron that is heated red-hot to be hammered into shape, thinned,
given impulses that suddenly bring it back to the plant world…
and it’s neither the same work nor the same result.
It was the discovery in Morocco of small workshops that had retained an almost original form of this work
that pushed me to explore its possibilities.
And it was from a long collaboration with a craftsman and then his son
(because in this case, the transmission of the skill truly took place)
that these hybrid objects, somewhere between simplicity and sophistication, were born.
A strange balance between artisanal know-how that has retained a primitive strength
and a culture steeped in museums and in the universal history of art.
