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Lodge Collection
Their furniture collection consists in chairs, armchairs, sofa, benches and ottoman designed by their designer, David Manien. Lodge Collection  only uses the finest skins and leather tanned with traditional methods. They also offer a bespoke service for decorators and up market client. Their home ware collection consists with a large selection of scatter cushions, floor cushions and beanbags as you probably already know. Lodge Collection evokes words such as quality, luxury, timeless, elegant, distinctive and exquisite.

Chevalier Edition
Since its launch in 2008, Chevalier édition aims to offer a different and innovative approach to contemporary rug through collaborations with various contemporary artists and designers. A new collection is launched every year, overseen by the artistic director Stephan Lanez.. For the 2013 collection, Chevalier edition contacted some of the most renowned French architectural practices and asked them to conceive a rug reflecting their vision of space and artistic universe. Five new collaborations enrich the existing catalog :  Aldric Beckmann and Françoise N&rsquothépé / Beckmann N&rsquothépé, Dominique Jakob et Brendan MacFarlane / Jakob + MacFarlane, Stéphane Maupin, Nicolas Michelin / ANMA, Dominique Perrault and Gaëlle Lauriot-Prevost / DPA.

Each of the rugs composing this new collection has its own esthetics making it truly original, the common thread being the clearly three-dimensional perception of the support. The architects, used to large scale projects, to shapes and volumes unfolding in the space, were on this occasion confronted to a different task they did not conceive a mock-up later becoming a building but a drawing becoming an object that we place on the floor. Through the various graphic or architectural and visual or tactile effects that play with our senses, the surfaces manage to recreate the volume. Thanks to the special vision of the architects &ndash unusual in the field of contemporary rug &ndash and the high quality execution, these pieces have an incredible presence and introduce the urban infrastructure into our interiors in a very subtle way.

Chevalier Edition will be  present at the Furniture Fair in Milan from 8 to 13 April 2014 Hall10 Booth F22bis.

La Manufacture Cogolin
Today, La Manufacture Cogolin continues to undergo extensive renovation at the workshop in Cogolin, where each of the looms and machines have been repaired to produce their original qualities. Employing and training new weavers in its workshop, under the leadership of Managing and Creative Director, Jean-Pierre Tortil, the collection&rsquos colours and patterns have been reworked and updated. These can all be found on display in the new showroom in Paris, located on 30 rue des Saint-Pères. This revival will soon see new innovations, styles and exciting creative partnerships introduced. More contemporary and stronger than ever, La Manufacture draws inspiration from its exceptional past to write its promising future.

Hélène & Olivier Lempereur

Drawing from the Strength of the Other.

For all time - and now more than ever - the strategic formation of the couple, the duo, has been one of the most exciting and productive combinations there is.  To believe it, one need only go to museums, galleries, and the walkways of great, international fairs.  Throughout the history of art, particularly architecture and design, creative teams - married or just collaborators - have always occupied a very unique position.  Ray and Charles Eames come immediately to mind, as do Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret, Lily Reich and Mies van der Rohe, or even closer, SANAA, Doshi Levien, or Pool.  For each of these examples, it would be impossible to trace the individual paths of creation, for each duo's history is imbedded in a constant process of counterbalance, echo, and trompe l'oeil.  Furthermore, what is the interest?  The couple is not a fixed image or diagram of proportions rather, the duo represents a privileged space of exchange, of complementarity, and of mutual influence.

There is no doubt that Hélène and Olivier Lempereur belong to this family of artists, for so much of their work reflects an intimate knowledge facilitated by the continual interplay of their daily interactions.  For every project, the duo receives and listens to the clients' wishes, then interprets and translates according to the inclinations of their unique sensibilities.  Then the process of creation begins, finding structure as the phases interconnect, binding together until culminating in the final realization of the clients'dream.  To this duo, Olivier brings interior design and cabinetry, drawings and first intuitions, spark and volume. Hélène, the stylist and art aficionado, contributes research and her unique use of materials, form and light.  Two forces that unite to enhance beauty as it develops in volumes, like the depth of an eye rendered sublime by the light touch of make-up, or by the subdued harmony of a landscape that comes alive under the colors of twilight.  With each stage of the process, the work of one is nourished by the other and even more, from their family life, from their shared history, and from all that unites them. 

 
 

 



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