Round Marble Coffee Table Couture with Brass Details by Hervé Langlais France

Round Glass Coffee Table Gemme by Hervé Langlais and Perrin & Perrin. Hervé Langlais is a graduate of the Normandy School of Architecture in Rouen. He collaborated with Paul Andreu ...

Contemporary Round Glass Coffee "Gemme" Table by Hervé Langlais and Perrin & Perrin. From Colored Abstractions collection, 2016. This piece is a collaboration between Hervé Langlais...

After having explored rare materials, then the sculptural aspects of design in the vein of Brancusi and finally graphics, Hervé Langlais devotes to color his fourth collection colored Abstractions for Galerie Negropontes. Hervé Langlais has chosen to highlight color by using pure geometric forms. Inspired by the artists of the geometric abstraction movement of the 1950s and 1960s, he uses the line as a structural base for his creations. From Josef Albers - professor at Bauhaus and instigator of Op Art - Langlais retains the observation of the interaction between colors and the importance of perception. The eye is the driving force behind the work which flirts with the decorative, the playful and aspects of fashion. Langlais' works allow for the transition from flat, pictorial references to his 3D vision. Thus the side tables and Nénuphar table use the circle. For this fourth collection, the designer was also inspired by Italy, and more particularly by its great luxury houses and jewellers. Prada and Marni showcase the same colorful eclecticism: Refined and audacious. With this in mind Langlais has chosen to dress his pieces using lacquer...

Hervé Langlais is a graduate of the Normandy School of Architecture in Rouen. He collaborated with Paul Andreu for over fifteen years, working on the National Grand Theater of China ...