Gravity
À L’Origine Collection
YMER&MALTA / Cédric Ragot
2009
This ceiling lamp is freed from the yoke of gravity, experiences levitation, overcomes by the void… something weighs on us and the fascination with balance frees us.
Aluminium chassis, CP aviation frame, LEDs
Wood species: on request, varnish ultra matt
W.106 × W.4.5 x H.9 cm
Limited edition of 12 pieces
Gravity is from the collection :
À L’ORIGINE
These pieces designed exclusively with Cédric Ragot tell the story of the beginning of YMER& MALTA.
This collection was born from a vision where creative virtuosity dialogues with industrial reality. À l’origine has a dreamlike, sensitive dimension that transcends the function of the object. Its purity and originality make it a strong, memorable collection at the frontiers of contemporary art.
Other pieces of the collection :
À L’ORIGINE
Other collections
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French Aubusson tapestry, which dates back to the 16th century, is a gold standard in tapestry production and is inscribed on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
“This innovative collection, developed by the studio YMER&MALTA, is a set of seven pieces of furniture integrating Aubusson Tapestry. Valérie Maltaverne, the founder of the studio, not only has worked with her team of designers but also collaborated with the Aubusson weavers to achieve unique textures, pushing these artisans with exceptional skills to explore unknown territories of their own technique.”
Emmanuel Gerard – Director at the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie d’Aubusson
“YMER&MALTA studio did more than just mobilise and work with the immaterial heritage of Aubusson tapestry, it enriched the whole process.”
Bruno Ythier – Chief Curator du Patrimoine de la Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie d’Aubusson
AKARI UNFOLDED for The Noguchi Museum
“The exhibition Akari Unfolded came out of a 2016 visit to The Noguchi Museum during which Maltaverne decided to apply her model to Akari. The challenge was to see whether she might, treating Akari as the tradition, extend its fundamental alchemies—what Noguchi called the intrinsic qualities of craft whose products cannot be successfully falsified (as the many Akari knockoffs demonstrate)—into the future.”
Dakin Hart, Senior Curator, The Noguchi Museum
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The result is a surprisingly kinetic, contemporary vision of marquetry.
COMBINAISON
Combinaison is a collection that often works through juxtaposition, at times through confrontation, inversion and even hybridisation, but never through opposition. A series of combinations that speak of moments where methods and typologies, materials and manufacturing processes collide.
À FLEUR DE PEAU
À Fleur de Peau pays homage to a traditional and luxurious material. This collection freely explores the possibilities of leather, playing with feelings and contrasts, textures, colours, shapes, in both supple and stiff leathers.
Powerful and sensual leather sculptures fill the space, making it more open and freer.
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Marble is ultra-resistant and, as a result, was refined to the extreme. Airy, sensual, light, delicate, it loses none of its density. Marbre Poids Plume proposes stark lines that surprise and move us.
A new poetic reality emanates from the pieces.
ILLUSIONS
Illusions is comprised of four pieces the subtlety of which is not necessarily visible at first glance. Illusions acts like a sensorial and cognitive stimulus in the way it plays with optics, materials and perspectives that propose a new reality to the spectator.