Le chalet des Îles reopened in May 2006 in the heart of the "bois de Vincennes" parisian largest park.
New owners of the place Jean-Baptiste Aubertin & Jean-Michel Calvert, asked Cyrille Varet to design lightings for this place, associating his humanitarian initiative Ithemba, and the skills of Southern African women involved in the project. 35 chandeliers and wall lights have been designed for this place.
Two groups
of women, in Swaziland and South Africa, have been associated to this
project.
Thousands of strings of beads have been hand-made in Africa and assembled
in Paris on metal structures of the lightings.
These lightings have been decorated with Ithemba lightbvulbs, with a special edition matching the colors of the beads used on the chandeliers.This is a great bridge between the 2 activities of the designer, leading Ithemba towards creating larger pieces, and not only small accessories, bringing also pride to the women involved.
Jean Michel Calvert et Jean Baptiste Aubertin have also embellished the place with a refined garden, outdoor terrasses, palmtrees planted around the lake.
Inside wall lights have used spring colors inspired by the garden vegetation.
Liens
utiles
- Contact.
Chalet
des Iles - +331 43 07 00 10 - www.lechaletdesiles.com
Ithemba
- www.ithemba.fr
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mail@ithemba.fr
Contact presse: Marion Schnauffer 01 44 75 88 88