Our lighting, from Celine Wright

The Céline Wright house is quite simply the designer's studio.

Created in 1995 (already 20 years ago!), the Céline Wright brand has made a name for itself all over the world.

Conveying true values, Céline Wright's creations are at once poetic, designer and ecological.

All Céline Wright creations are designed in France in the company's Montreuil workshops, using a material forgotten by our industrial society: "Washi". This unalterably white Japanese paper has many virtues that are little-known in Europe.

Washi can be used to create very large, extremely light luminaires: the Cirrus luminaire, with its 2.20m wingspan, weighs less than 5kg.

"Handmade is the only non-polluting human energy," says Céline Wright.

All objects are made by hand, using ancestral techniques revised and corrected for the dawn of the 21st century. All materials are natural and non-polluting. The manufacture of a luminaire requires a number of highly specialized manipulations.

To create these luminaires, the designer has set up a network of craftsmen who work in their own homes, following the successful English "cottage industry" model.

Each luminaire is unique. Moulded and structured by hand, "a shell from the cocoon range can consist of over 1,600 strips of paper, individually glued into a mould. It can take up to 7 hours to make," says the designer.

The cocoon is solid, non-flammable and diffuses a soft, soothing light. The apparent fragility of the paper gives no hint of its strength.