Les Cordes

On view at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Matheu Lehanneur’s lighting feature Les Cordes uses contemporary technology with handcraft work to create a modern chandelier.

Mathieu Lehanneur’s lighting feature Les Cordes, originally created for the Decorative Arts Museum of Marseille, France placed on the 18th century Château Borély, is on view at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in an exhibition entitled “New Works”.

Matheu Lehanneur, Les Cordes. Courtesy Carpenters Workshop Gallery. Photo © Adrien Millot.

Combining his passion for design, science, technology and art, Les Cordes uses contemporary lighting technology with handcraft work to create a modern representation of a chandelier. The glass tubes contain strips of LED that puncture the underside of the ceiling and hang down like loops of rope. A lighting programme allows the light to be dimmed or brightened independently of one another.

“This chandelier was conceived as a rope of light crossing the ceiling, only bands of light and glass are visible. It is not an object. It is not a light fitting. It is the light itself that seems to live and circulate in the entrance space, as if stitched onto the building itself,” explains Lehanneur.

Matheu Lehanneur, Les Cordes. Courtesy Carpenters Workshop Gallery. Photo © Adrien Millot.