Design : Michel Bresson, Marseille
Michel Bresson
“Patella Tyffania” Michel Bresson 2025
This series of luminaires stems from my need to rediscover contact with matter. At a time when the hand, if not absent, is numb on keyboards, listening to and exchanging with materials seemed vital to re-approach creation.
“However, if we sit at our desks to conceive a design, we cannot avoid exhibiting ourselves, because we exclude the material as a collaborator, as a guiding force in our conception”.
Annie Albers 1939
Drawing on the mounting techniques of Tiffany stained glass and the art of rocaillage, classic luminaire forms dialogue with shells and sandblasted glass, collected from coastlines where, beyond the naturalistic poetic vision, the danger of loss is never far away…
Artifacts disappearing beneath limestone concretions, colonized like artificial reefs. Here, only the diffused glow bears witness to the meeting and fragile accord between two worlds.
A cabinet-of-curiosity light subduing the contemporary relationship between art and craft.
