Created in 2026

french collection fair

Paris, France

In October 2026, I unveiled What Remains of Us, my most personal collection to date, during French Collection Fair, an exhibition organised by the Centre Français du Design at the Hôtel Mona Bismarck in Paris.

There was something particularly meaningful about presenting this new body of work within a historic Parisian mansion. After more than a year of development, the collection was finally leaving the intimacy of the studio to inhabit a space with its own history, architectural character and sense of time.

The collection itself began with a series of historical ornaments inherited from the workshop of Fabio Da Tos, a Venetian artist and restorer who was once part of my family. Fragments that had remained untouched for years were gradually transformed into new sculptural forms, combining traditional bronze craftsmanship with contemporary lighting technology and delicate Kozo paper.

Against the architectural backdrop of the Hôtel Mona Bismarck, these objects found an unexpected context. The intricate reliefs, pale bronze surfaces and softly illuminated forms seemed to belong to several different periods at once. Their presence was both familiar and strangely out of place, as though they had been discovered rather than recently created.

This exhibition marked an important transition in my practice. After years of exploring darker, more brutal forms, What Remains of Us introduced a quieter, more spectral language, without abandoning the tension and theatricality that have always been central to my work.

It felt appropriate that a collection concerned with what survives the passage of time should make its first appearance in a place already carrying so much of it.

Not a return to the past, but the beginning of something else.

Objects in “french collection fair” Project:

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