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Talking of the world of “Correspondances”, Lalique House opened its doors to the André Putman studio for the “Orgue” collection.
These instruments of light are modeled like a set of sandy tubes to give light to darkness in an elegant fashion that suggests timeless harmony.
In Lalique, the magnum opus like to echo one another In 1962, Yves Klein, fascinated by antique art went looking for the molds of the famous Greek sculpture “the Victory of Samothrace”.
The triumph of the Angel is modeled after the shape of a voluptuous woman with generous curves which are set off by a brilliant play of the drapes. Yves Klein had chosen to give flesh to her in an atypical/extravagant color. This mythical blue was meant to meet and make one with the fantastic goddess in the sea blue color of the kingdom of God, where daylight knows no dying down. In 2011, the artists and craftsmen of Lalique House took over the synthetic formula of the IKB -the International Klein Blue- to shape it up out of glass.
Fascinating and mesmerizing, the winged woman draws light out of the pigment of a magical substance and projected it in 83 sample copies only, a graceful tribute to Yves Klein who would turn 83 at the occasion of the creation of this «Lalique» work of art, but who now lies peacefully on his blue cloud.
