From her childhood in New Caledonia and Reunion, she retained a taste for bright colors. His mathematics studies gave him a sense of logical sequences and elementary forms. Adélie Ducasse, 39, synthesizes these heritages in a collection of graphic lamps which combine the delicacy of earthenware with a playful and modular aesthetic evoking both Lego and the Memphis movement.
After a career in the luxury industry, where she developed lines of shoes for fashion brands, this collector of lighting from the 1940s and 1950s decided to let her creative streak speak, lulled by the abstraction of painters like Piet Mondrian and Ellsworth Kelly, and the modernism of architects such as John Lautner and Le Corbusier. In 2019, she trained in ceramics – “plate mounting, the most accessible technique” – and travels, alone, to nourish her inspirations.
In Japan, California and Mexico, she explored the art of shaping the earth and visited modernist villas where she fantasized about her future creations. Admiring the refined and functional style of the Bauhaus, this mathematician sets a limited canvas of shapes to assemble. “I have a very logical side, she comments. Constraint stimulates my thinking. » It is from this database – two bases, a rectangle and a square, tubes and, as a lampshade, a half-sphere, a cone and a pyramid – that she created her first lamps. , manufactured and then assembled by hand in a workshop near Venice.
Her participation in Paris Design Week in 2022 is a springboard that projects her at Bon Marché, in major design fairs and at the Parisian gallery Scène Ouverte, which represents her and where she unveils, in a collective exhibition until the end of January , a series of lamps enameled in gold, pink or white. Recently, she also applied her vocabulary of shapes to a sofa called Abstract sofa and to a small Roma tripod table.
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