Reissue of André Cazenave's Dora Lamp

André Cazenave by Alia Vitae

For its first project, Alia Vitæ has chosen to pay homage to French designer André Cazenave, who died 20 years ago. If there is one piece alone that represents all the avant-gardism and poetry of the work of André Cazenave, it is without doubt the Dora lamp. Its pebble form and singular texture make a lamp that is both functional and sculptural, which takes on its full form when illuminated. It is produced in three sizes, which can thereby be accumulated to create a phantasmic decor. The technology of the lamp needed to be completely reinvented. A challenge for Alia its fabrication to a workshop in Montreuil, to the east of Paris. Between tribute and modernisation, Alia Vitæ technology. The material thus enhanced, it is the occasion for Alia favours fabrication by French artisans and the use of responsible materials. Each piece requires a long period of research and experimentation to ensure that the result is as close as possible to the original intention and Vitæ designers and architects. Each project gives rise to a carte blanche, an opportunity to propose a new interpretation of a material with to instigate a correspondence, a dialogue, with contemporary wide potential.