Les Clopes consists of floor lamps, table lamps and pendant lights. Their transgressive yet smiling name, emblematic of the spirit of a designer skilfully juggling references to popular culture with those of excellence, comes from their long, slender tube shape. For their feet, José imagines a white or black lacquered metal finish, in a satin-finish brass variant. And then, echoing his fascination with Japanese craftsmanship, he developed burnt or toasted wood, a novel technique that the manufacture had to integrate into its palette of practices. The sensoriality of such a material blends harmoniously with that of linen lampshades.
José Lévy
José Lévy is a Parisian artist and traveller who navigates with talent and whimsical poetry between fashion, decorative arts, design, and museum installations. His fields of action are diverse.
Faithful to the spirit and the human being as a starting point, it remains the driving force behind all his projects. A purveyor of singular, intimate objects, José Lévy weaves links between his creations and their recipients.
Recreating memories, both own and borrowed, José Lévy infuses his work with a unique sense of rigour and imagination.
Recipient of the Villa Kujoyama, Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris, and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, his work appeals to a public keen to discover stories from the past and new horizons.
José Lévy works with leading publishers and art and design galleries, including Hermès, Perrotin, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Cristalleries Saint-Louis, Diptyque, Astier de Villatte, and Manufacture de Sèvres.
He has taken part in numerous solo exhibitions around the world, including at the Musée Guimet and the Musée de la Chasse in Paris. He has also collaborated with the Petit Palais, the Palais de Tokyo, and the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.
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