le19M presents : Victoire de Brantes X Lesage Intérieurs avec l’atelier d’excellence Vastrakala «Vitraux brodés»
To mark the centenary of Maison Lesage in 2024, le19M presents this unique installation designed in collaboration with Lesage Intérieurs.
Vitraux brodés
Vitraux brodés is a work by Victoire de Brantes, the fruit of an exploration of traditional techniques from the Vastrakala workshop of excellence in South-East India. The intention here is to explore a playful form of embroidery that can be integrated into our interiors, in the format of embroidered stained-glass windows, combining technical heritage with spontaneous compositions, offering both functionality and beauty. Around a single format of assembled panels, an energetic scene unfolds: pearls and stones slide and roll in a dance that creates a multitude of combinations, blending the language of interiors with that of fashion thanks to the buttonhole and cufflinks, giving life to luminous screens that can be buttoned or unbuttoned. The aesthetic emerges from a play of light through the transparencies of the materials used, revealing the pearly transparency of pieces of parchment and the reflections of glass and stone beads. The moments are captured by the enchantment of the embroidery, a beautiful interaction between those who invent and those who make. Imagined as a dialogue between southern India and southern Provence, this installation - designed by studio Biehler et Graveleine - brings together the embroidered glass beads of the stained glass window and the skills of the Biot glassworks.
Victoire de Brantes
Victoire de Brantes, resident-winner of the 2024 Vastrakala as part of the partnership programme created by Villa Swagatam in India, divides her time between Provence, Paris and India. She graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) in 2022. Her approach is multi-disciplinary, working on private and public projects that are always exploratory, starting from regional specificities, to open up and blossom for an international audience and help understand the work of local craftsmen - her hidden heroes - in a poetic narrative.
Villa Swagatam
Supported by le19M, Villa Swagatam is a new network of 16 residences across India designed to attract the very best in French creative talent. Supported by the French Institute in India, its aim is to create a community of French designers who, through cultural immersion periods lasting several weeks, will be able to draw inspiration from the country’s know-how and rich history and engage in long-term cooperation with India. The French residents selected will have in common a strong desire to get to know India, its cultural ecosystem and its specific characteristics. For the first edition in 2024, the residency programmes focused on the fields of literature, performing arts and Métiers d’art, all of which have strong artistic traditions.
