Editorial

The stories behind YMER&MALTA

Noticed by museums and cultural institutions, Valérie Maltaverne turned her YMER&MALTA studio into a pioneer of modernisation and renovation of French savoir-faires. Behind these accomplishments, the founder’s personality is revealed as in a shadow puppet

The fruit of a collaboration between Valérie Maltaverne, founder and artistic director of the YMER&MALTA studio, and designer Benjamin Graindorge, the fallenTree bench explores the relationship between humans and nature. The concept of time is

The paper used by Isamu Noguchi for his lamps reveals the humble beauty of an ancestral Japanese craft. As a tribute to washi paper, YMER&MALTA created a composite material made of French flax, with its

Within the heart of Queen in New York, The Noguchi Museum presented the Akari Unfolded exhibition from February 28th, 2018 to April 14th, 2019. This event was created together by Dakin Hart, the museum curator,

Our world is the reflection of light, its playground. At the core of art is the expression of these luminous revelations, and it is within nature that their most perfect demonstrations are unveiled. Belle de