Editorial

The stories behind YMER&MALTA

The environmental emergency reshuffles the cards of massive globalization, ultimately harmful to human nature and to what makes it unique: its acquired gesture, the time needed to achieve perfection and the pursuit of innovation. Text

Two years of research were needed to publish in 2024 the very first piece of furniture printed in 3D in bio-sourced PLA-linen. The French Mobilier National is acquiring it today, convinced by this authentic and

A cornerstone of high-end French creation, yet discreet in its identity, Studio YMER&MALTA operates on an atypical model, orchestrated by its director, Valérie Maltaverne. Text by Marielle Brie de Lagerac From her career in cinema,

On April 11th 2025, the French-American Cultural Foundation in Houston, Texas, welcomed two distinguished ambassadors of French craftsmanship: Valérie Maltaverne, director of the YMER&MALTA studio, and Olivier Gabet, General Heritage Curator and Director of the

The relationship between creator and master artisan is a delicate alchemy. Valérie Maltaverne understands its secrets so intimately that her studio, YMER&MALTA, is now widely recognized as a driving force behind the revival of traditional

Part of the Akari Unfolded collection, a tribute to Isamu Noguchi, made for the Noguchi Museum in New York, Galet lamps from YMER&MALTA studio are the result of unexpected innovation, enriching the world of resin

From the Mobilier National to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Noguchi Museum and the Villa Albertine, the YMER&MALTA studio is a major contemporary figure in French furniture and decorative arts. Collectors are

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