table basse Anna (2015) Design by Christophe Talec

“Born in 1968 in Saint Germain en Laye, Christophe Talec studied Fine Arts in Cherbourg and Nîmes. His work of mixed inspiration is both borrowed from Art-Nouveau and orientalism. He is also called in the press the 'Christian Lacroix of Design' (La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot September 2005). Christophe Talec only works on unique pieces designed like jewelry combining luxurious materials (leather, rare stones, crystals, glass paste, etc.) and raw materials (metal, cement, stones, etc.) » .

Over the years it seems obvious to me that creation is a journey, for oneself and to move towards others. Nature does not like emptiness and it pushes me to fill something that I lack, and that the other that I do not know is waiting for.

My workshop is like a performance hall where people come together the improbable, cats collected on pieces in the making, plants clustered against the glass roof, a welding station which united so many metals, a large oven for the magical fusion of glass sits in a dedicated room and so many discoveries accumulated , like beloved ex votos. An alchemy, a fertile ground.

Arousing the emotion that stirs the imagination, conducive to relearning how to see things, my work is part of the new design such as ;Andréa Branzi defines it, far from production constraints, favoring the unique piece, the prototype, sometimes the limited series.

My objects which find their place in everyday life through their function, change their own status to become sculptures, mixed jewelry, everyday friends.

Faced with the dictates of fashion , to the intellectualization of forms, to peremptory judgments it is necessary for me when I work to rediscover the path to childhood, this path which makes us feel small, which brings us closer to something great, luminous, marvelous .

The idea of ​​nature has an important place in my work, the resonance with the living world, whether through the appropriation of plant forms as a repeated or varied ornamental motif or choice of working with natural materials (steel, glass, minerals, etc.), allows me to establish a simple and intuitive emotional dialogue.

Does this seem mystical? Perhaps because “everything is Grace” and I remain filled with the feeling that “beauty will save the world”.

• Nationality:
• Date of birth : 1968
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists