Couture lighting · Bordeaux

An interior designer with a love of lighting and of the 1960s and 70s. Master lampshade makers in the Bordeaux region sew each of her shades by hand, in linens, cottons and surplus fabrics from French and Italian couture houses.

Sculptural stoneware · Bordeaux

The studio of Marine, a ceramic artist who lets the clay speak for itself. She shapes every link of her signature chains one by one and assembles them around unglazed stoneware vases.

Mouth-blown recycled glass · Paris

Valentina and Sébastien Nobile founded La Soufflerie to keep the art of glassblowing alive. Every piece is blown one at a time from recycled glass, and keeps its own proportions, colour and surface.

Handwoven art · Lyon

Laura weaves rope on a loom in her atelier in the Croix-Rousse. Her waves, interlacings and lines become wall pieces and textiles for the table.

Glazed stoneware tableware · Berlin and Hyères

Lucie Sotty came to ceramics through art. She alternates hand-building and the potter’s wheel, then develops her own glazes and lays them on as a painter would. Mediterranean light runs through her palette.

Shell art · France

Sophie Brillouet composes wall sculptures and objects from thousands of natural shells, set one by one. Her work echoes a childhood beside the Atlantic.

Hand-drawn Limoges porcelain · near Paris

Trained as a painter at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Véronique Joly-Corbin chose porcelain as her canvas. She is one of the few artists in the world who draw on porcelain with a calligraphy dip pen, and each plate is a signed original.