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Elsa Foulon
Selene Pendant
Ceiling & Pendant Lamps · Collection Elsa Foulon Collection
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Made to order · 17 weeks
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The label
W 19.7 × D 29.5 × H 21.7 in
The story
The Selene Pendant is a sculptural hanging light from the Elsa Foulon Collection, named for the Greek goddess of the moon. From a central brass rod, multiple elongated ceramic shades cascade in a spiraling arrangement, each one a matte off-white shell-like form positioned at a different height and angle.
The composition is deliberately asymmetric. Individually, the forms are quiet. Together, they build a layered silhouette that reads as a single sculptural mass, one that shifts as the light source changes or the viewer moves. Suspended, the piece occupies space rather than simply filling it.
Each shade is hand-formed in Elsa Foulon's Parisian studio using her plate technique, developed to achieve large, thin ceramic surfaces while preserving the organic lightness that characterizes her work. Natural variation in glaze and surface texture between individual pieces is part of the process.
The Selene Pendant belongs to the Elsa Foulon Collection alongside the Venus Wall Sconce, the Antigone Pendant, and the Orphée ceiling light, works that share a common conviction: that ceramic craft is the right material for making light that is also sculpture.
About Elsa Foulon
Elsa Foulon came to ceramics through a different door. The daughter of an antique dealer and later a dealer in 20th-century decorative arts herself, she spent years building a visual archive of objects made with conviction. That accumulation now shapes her approach: ceramic lighting fixtures conceived as sculpture, forms simultaneously free and precise, their sensibility drawn from both artistic instinct and hard-won technique.
The medium resisted the scale she wanted. Large-format ceramic work demands a kind of problem-solving that goes beyond craft, so she developed her own plate technique and proprietary materials, achieving generous volumes without sacrificing the structural lightness her organic forms require. The Antigone series, whose pendant and wall versions seem to float against any surface, is where this technical resolution becomes most visible.
In her Parisian studio, what drives the work is what she calls the beauty of the ancestral gesture: the interval between idea and object, long and never predictable. Fire shapes each piece in its own way. The clay carries the impression of her hands. Light installed inside the hollow of a sculpture reveals, rather than conceals, the roughness of the material.
Her work is presented on Monde Singulier, where signature pieces from the Elsa Foulon Collection include the Venus wall sconce and the Selene pendant.
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Delivery and terms
Every piece is packed and shipped under insurance, from the workshop to you. White glove delivery (unpacking, installation, packaging removal) is available on request. Delivery is not charged at checkout: we send you a quote within 24 business hours of your order. You have 5 days to accept and pay it (secure payment link or bank transfer), otherwise your order is cancelled and fully refunded.
Tax-free export price. Import duties and local taxes, if any, are paid by the buyer. Delivery quoted within 24 business hours.
As our pieces are made to order or one of a kind, they cannot be returned or exchanged.