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Agathe Labaye is an architect and Florian Sumi a visual artist. After a career in their respective fields, the two began their collaboration in the spring 2018, with their first collection of furniture, entitled Le Salon. Coincidentally, it was at the 2023 Salon Art + Design that we spotted the duo’s magnificent glowing pink floor lamp, Colonne Noailles.

It is often said that a piece of furniture adds the finishing touch to an architectural work; the designers believe that furniture makes architecture. The Noailles Column (2023) is a monumental floor lamp, being a tribute to the column in the Salon Rose at Mallet Stevens’ Villa Noailles on the Côte d’Azur in France.

This 2.5 meter piece consists of a central column with two stained acrylic cylinders that can independently move vertically, and revolve on their axis, creating variations in color and light intensity. The work’s color consists of a play on superimposition: the two cylinders are in two unique tones, orange and violet, which, put together, make up the pink of the central column.

Created in a limited edition of three, plus two artist proofs, purchase inquiries can be directed to Charles Burnand Gallery of London at This Link.