The artist, who considered his recovery to be a miracle, felt his creativity unleashed. He decided to devote this ‘second life’ that had been granted to him to completing his oeuvre, developing the technique of cut-out gouache papers – a major innovation that would allow him to ‘sing at the top of his voice’.”

“We have always been fascinated by the exploratory nature of Henri Matisse’s work, and in particular by his use of cut-out paper to study shapes and colours.” In the manner of Henri Matisse, who used scissors to cut paper, Formafantasma used a ruler and a blade. They then folded the paper to achieve the final shapes of the lamps. The initial models, created to scale, thus gave rise to the Fold collection, which boldly mixes paper with sheets of lacquered metal.