Incollect Magazine - Issue 13

Incollect Magazine 17 Jewelry designers have long made their mark in the furniture world — think of Hervé Van der Straeten, or, before him, Harry Bertoia and Louis Comfort Tiffany, all of whom translated the fine craftsmanship needed for working with precious metals and gems into the creation of their sculptural furniture. Hélène de Saint Lager is a French designer known for intuitive, free-form furniture made from poured aluminum and polyester resin or epoxy. But she started in fashion and jewelry design; French decorator Jacques Garcia, on a visit to her studio in 2009, noticed her jewelry and asked her to make some resin tables for him in the same material. Her furniture line was born. “I had not made such enormous pieces of resin before, and so experimented extensively with the materials and technique. It took me a while to master," the artist explains, speaking from her art-filled Paris home. Prints and Clockwise from top right: Black Candies Mirror, inclusions in resin, wood. Unique piece, 2019. Petit Vert Table, inclusions in green resin. Unique piece, 2017. Diabolo Table, stratified silvered steel base with surface of red resin with inclusions, 2020. Alual é atoire Chairs, random cast aluminum, unique pieces.