In Materia : Living Materials by Elizabeth Leriche

Why did you choose to highlight materials such as hammered metal, veined wood, or crackled ceramics?

E.L.: Materials carry a silent life, perceptible through their textures, irregularities, and transformations. Hammered metal, wood with uneven grain, crackled ceramics, blown glass,  each surface preserves the trace of its history. Within this dialogue with matter, the artisan’s gesture is essential: the hand shapes and imprints a rhythm. Every intervention leaves a singular mark, and the process remains visible in the finished object, like a form of gestural writing.

Did “Pulse in Motion,” the theme of this autumn’s Maison&Objet edition, inspire you? How would you define this energy present in the objects?

E.L.: A pulse is made of variations in intensity, accelerations, and tensions. From this energy emerges a kind of radiance: the object seems to transcend its simple materiality. Color contributes to this vibration, revealing the depth and metamorphosis of the material. Manual work thus becomes part of an organic temporality, shaped by adjustments and repetitions, rooted in transmitted savoir-faire and in a constant attentiveness to material itself.

Why did you choose a circular scenography?

E.L.: The transformations of matter and form belong to a broader cycle — that of nature and time. This logic is expressed through a circular scenography, where color acts as a sensitive thread, connecting the works and extending throughout the space the dynamic of continuous transformation