Elsa Foulon Collection - Venus Wall Sconce
by Elsa Foulon
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The Venus Wall Sconce is a sculptural ceramic wall light from the Elsa Foulon Collection, named for the Roman goddess and defined by two symmetrical S-curved forms that mirror each other in fluid opposition.
Each element is hand-formed in Elsa Foulon's Parisian studio from a smooth molded ceramic material, finished cream on the exterior and speckled pale pink within. The contrast between outer restraint and interior warmth shifts as the viewing angle changes. A polished brass sphere at the center joins the two forms, functioning as both structural pivot and sculptural accent.
The sconce can stand on its own as a wall sculpture, independent of any light source. Illuminated, the curves throw soft shadows, the pale pink interior catches the glow, and the brass responds to whatever light surrounds it. Each piece carries the singular traces of its making.
The Venus Wall Sconce belongs to the Elsa Foulon Collection, a body of work named from Greek and Roman mythology that includes the Selene Pendant, the Hera Wall Sconce, and the Antigone Pendant, all rooted in ancestral ceramic craft and treated as sculptural form first.
W 80 x D 24 x H 30 cm
W 31.5 x D 9.45 x H 11.81 in
Materials: Ceramic and brass
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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