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'Transmutation 1', chandelier

Creator: Thierry Jeannot
Offered by: Marion Friedmann Gallery

Description
The ALCHEMIST and master craftsman in plastics presents up-cycling at its best and demonstrates how waste can transform into real luxury:

Two-tier chandelier. Jeannot's chandeliers are constructed from hundreds of plastic bottles meticulously selected, cut and reassembled as an exceptional object. From afar they appear as a crystal chandelier, but the result of a closer look reveals another origin and shifts our preconceptions about the value of materials. The piece is a result of Jeannot’s over 15 year-long research into the PET material and its characters and origins within the trash system in Mexico City. His chandeliers are handcrafted over a period of a few months. The artists achieves a true transformation of those specimen of plastic into a luxury symbol, a classic Chandelier. They have a strong effect on the public eye in the sense of ‘what you see is not what you get’. Its an art-design piece about Illusion (there is a story of a lady in Washington who thought the chandelier was part of the old mansion where the artist's exhibition was - she screamed: “WOW....Why did I buy my VENINI?! Everyone can have a Venini!”
Jeannot's pieces carry the message: Waste is Luxury. Plastic is valuable and plastic waste is destroying us.
Thierry's work has additionally a social aspect. He incorporates disadvantaged people within Mexico City in teaching them to find the right type of bottles and rescue them from trash and in involving them in various aspects within the construction process. This work has changed many lives and given new hope.
As such the pieces are stunning, sparkling light objects and a powerful testimony to life and beauty.
Edition 3 of 3.

More Information

Customization Options:	Thierry Jeannot has created many bespoke chandeliers and light installations for collectors and clients and recently (Oct 2018) for a museum show ("The Beauty Show", by Sagmeister and Walsh). He has made 2-tier, 3-tier and 4-tier chandeliers. Within a commission he can vary: overall size, shape, length of hanging arm, colouring of PET plastic material, including and adding metal parts, etc... Please reach out for special requests.
Documentation:	Certificate of Authenticity
Origin:	Mexico
Period:	New
Materials:	handcrafted of: ca. 800 reclaimed PET (plastic) bottles, Aluminium and steel construction, 16 arms and 16 light bulbs
Condition:	Excellent.
Creation Date:	2011
Styles / Movements:	Contemporary, Studio Craft, Collectible Design
Book References:	"New Territories, Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America", eds. Lowery Stokes Simms et al, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), NYC, 2014, pages 153, 154, 230 // "Beauty", by Sagmeister and Walsh, Phaidon, 2018.
Article References:	Four Seasons' Magazine // Financial Times, How to Spend it // Curve Magazine // World of Interiors //
Dealer Reference #:	MFG-101
Incollect Reference #:	273693

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Message from Seller:

Marion Friedmann Gallery launched in 2011 in London and merges a penchant for the avant-garde with a passion to celebrate and promote the most remarkable emerging and established contemporary designers. The gallery represents eclectic & eccentric collectible design with a special interest in`Materiality ́as well as in pieces with a positive environmental message. The objects range from furniture, lighting, objets d`art, jewelry and sculpture. We develop bespoke and special commissions.