Creative Reuse: Papier Mache Table Lamps by Henri Dejeant
An otherworldly table lamp keeps catching our attention. After spotting the design in chic settings in France over the last two years, we had to find out more.
The lamp first appeared in the Merci department store’s showcase apartment: see Lessons in Mixing and Matching: Merci Reinvents an 18th Century a Family Home in the 5ème.
The Sightings
Photograph courtesy of Merci.
Recently, the light cropped up in artist Heather Chontos’s 17th century Barn Studio in Southwest France.
Photograph by Heather Chontos.
Photograph by Heather Chontos.
Another Henri Dejeant lamp stands bedside in Heather Chontos’s Stone Farmhouse.
The Source
Henri Dejeant started making his lamps more than a decade ago while running a hotel in a Berber village in southern Morocco with his...
...cousin Dejeant has since moved back to the south of France where grew up his workshop Henri Atelier is in the small town of Béziers
Dejeant makes his paper creations using his own mix of binders, which include plaster of paris and flour, and finishes them with a combination of waxes.
The Invider Medium, €429, is shown here in Dejeant’s own home.
