Elsa Foulon Collection - Archi
by Elsa Foulon
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The Archi is a low stool by Elsa Foulon, part of the Elsa Foulon Collection, produced in her Parisian studio.
The form is rectangular and close to the ground, a dense solid body in a dark grey-brown compound with the appearance and texture of raw concrete. The top surface is subtly concave, creating an unexpected hollowness at the center of what is otherwise a resolute mass. The legs emerge not as added elements but as the negative result of two trapezoidal cut-outs carved directly into the lower body, so the stool reads as a monolithic block from which material has been removed rather than assembled.
The surface is left raw and unpolished. The dark mottled finish varies across the material, making each piece distinct in tone.
Within the Elsa Foulon Collection, Archi extends Foulon's sculptural approach from lighting to seating: the same logic of subtraction, the same discomfort with decoration.
W 51 x D 39 x H 40 cm
W 20.08 x D 15.35 x H 15.75 in
Materials: Ceramic
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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