Collection: ATELIER HENRI DEJEANT

HENRI DEJEANT LIVES AND WORKS IN BÉZIERS. SINCE CHILDHOOD, HE HAS EXPLORED FLEA MARKETS, FASCINATED BY OBJECTS, STYLES, AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FROM THE 1950S. HIS FIRST STUDIO WAS ESTABLISHED IN MOROCCO, IN MIRLEFT, WHERE HE BEGAN EXPERIMENTING WITH RECYCLED NEWSPAPER. TODAY, IN HIS EPONYMOUS STUDIO, HE DEVELOPS AN ECOLOGICAL MATERIAL COMBINING PLASTER, PLANT-BASED GLUE, AND SHREDDED NEWSPAPER. THIS HAND-WORKED MIXTURE LENDS ITSELF TO VARIOUS TECHNIQUES: OPEN-MOLD STAMPING (INVIDER LAMP, PETIPIÉ TABLE), CLOSED-MOLD INJECTION (SPLITT PENDANT), OR THIN-LAYER APPLICATION OVER A STRUCTURE (AMBA FLOOR LAMP). EACH PIECE IS PRODUCED IN SMALL OR LIMITED SERIES, BEARING THE TRACE OF THE HAND. HE EMBRACES A FREE AND INTUITIVE APPROACH, AT THE INTERSECTION OF SCULPTURE, DESIGN, AND ECO-CONCEPTION.