When the light fitting doesn't exist, we make it.

Sometimes no catalogue has the right shape, the right size, the right light. So I draw it, and we make it, in the material and finish the place calls for.

A white façade and its driveway at the blue hour — A façade · the blue hour

What I adapt

The fitting, and the light it gives.

Outdoors

The height and length of the stem, to rise above a box hedge or sink into soft soil
Where the cable comes out, and its length
A head that peeks discreetly out of a hornbeam hedge
The anti-glare snoot

Indoors

A size and a shape that answer the room and its proportions
A fitting designed for a painting, a niche, a bookcase
A finish attuned to the materials of the place
A one-off piece, or a series for a hotel or a restaurant

A few pieces

An articulated-arm spotlight and its spare parts: ball joints, washers, mounting plate — An articulated arm · every part comes apart

An obelisk under a glass dome, lit by two micro-spotlights — An object under a glass dome · two micro-spotlights

A small spotlight on the ground lights a zinc ornament from a château roof — A zinc roof ornament · a spotlight on the ground

An example

For a hotel group, we created a bedside reading light and the shelf lighting, designed for its rooms.

More than 300 pieces delivered.

A wooden headboard and its two reading lights, in a hotel room — The reading light · headboard

Two painted aluminium reading lights on a woven headboard — The detail · painted aluminium

Shelves lit from within by small recessed lights — The shelves · recessed lighting

The material

The material follows the project.

For hotel rooms, painted aluminium; elsewhere, another material. I choose the one that will stand the test of time and suit the place. And every piece is designed to be opened and repaired: you change a component, you keep the fitting.

How I work

From the first sketch to the first evening

A conversation

You tell me about the place, what is missing, what you would like to see in the evening.

The drawing

I draw the fitting: its shape, its size, its light, how it is mounted.

The prototype

If needed, a first piece, tried on site, by day and then at night.

Making

The one-off piece or the series, in the chosen material.

Installation and fine-tuning

I oversee the installation, then fine-tune each fitting until the first evening.

My collection
Novatrade Lighting, my brass collection

Every project begins with a conversation.

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