A Plant From My Garden Floor Lamp in Antique Oak
by Atelier Musset · Paris, France

As a child, I remember contemplating the wooden rings that surrounded the framework of my bedroom, telling myself stories, imagining shapes, faces, and landscapes... Then, during my years of mentoring as a carpenter within the Association Ouvrière des Compagnons du Devoir, I had the chance to work on historical monuments where I was able to rub shoulders with ancestral woods once worked by hand and then by time. I then decided to place myself in a process of transmission, around the sensitivity of woods that had already survived through centuries but were sometimes abandoned. That's when I created Atelier Musset. The goal is to show that this material only needs to be magnified again, while showing its defects as integral parts of its beauty. The idea of seeking out timber destined for destruction on construction sites to insert it again in other forms in the same place sometimes seemed obvious to me. As for forms, they make it possible to convey a new appearance of matter as an element rich in vitality, where the whole brings a new language. They are essential to bring the eye back to the wood and to bring a new perspective. Thus, once the light has been shone on this furniture, it changes and appears transformed and warm.