Sophie Labayle accumulates sulphurets and paperweights from childhood and as she works with glassblowers in Venice, Portugal or Bohemia.
The writer Colette adored them and dedicated them many pages; They make aesthetes crazy, they talk about them with glitter in their eyes!
King Farouk, Eva Perron, Truman Capote loved showing their collections.
Wherever we put them, in a living room or on a desk, they capture the light and attention.
Sophie designed many collections of garden lighting, poetic and contemporary, in blown glass in Venice, graphic lamps and baroque chandeliers in Portugal and elsewhere, candle holders and candelabras, table services in crystal engraved in Bohemia and Moravia .
She has played virtuoso for years with transparency and light, whether natural, electric, solar or from the flame of a candle.
Glass blown mouth or molded, crystal carved or not, colorful or not, she celebrates them all to the best of their qualities and done wonders with the glassworkers, factories or craftsmen, with whom she works, who share her passion.
Sophie deepened her knowledge of this very particular technique, and brought the mix of design and poetry that is her trademark: rare colors, new shades, precious metals, engravings brilliantly sculpted on the surface.
These spheres are works of art, collectible pieces signed and numbered by hand.
They are sent in a gift box that opens like a flower.
4 Seasons Collection:
All the energy of Spring is here:
The revival of Nature in a whirlwind of vivid greens, bright, pearly in the morning light; Dew, the first buds of flowers floating over the grass, unwrap with an ebullition of petals and light, to open on the surface, marvellously engraved.
Sphere diameter 13cm. Serie limited to 50 copies, number engraved in the base.
4 Seasons Collection:
The rest of Summer: Solar peace lain on the sand, among the tall grasses, engraved on the sphere. The benevolent star diffuses its amber light, gleam of Gold in hot air.
True flakes of 24k. Gold taken in the glass, Sphere diameter 13cm. Serie limited to 50 copies, number engraved in the base.
4 Seasons Collection:
The leaves turn yellow and red: it’s the great Carnival of Nature before the cold season. They fall in a whirlwind, in the contrasting light of the underwood, where remains some green. The wind raises them and their danse extends to the surface of the sphere, finely engraved.
Sphere diameter 13cm. Serie limited to 50 copies, number engraved in the base.
4 Seasons Collection:
So bright is the calm of Winter: the magic of the frost, lightness of the flakes and ice stars. A whirlwind of snow flies in the blueish shadow. The light sparkles, silver. Everything is glint.
Sphere diameter 13cm. Serie limited to 50 copies, number engraved in the base.
