EYE COLLECTION
Δ A Design & Antiques Collection By Alexandre Lemaire Δ
Based between Paris and Mexico, it holds more than 3000 pieces
in its catalogue.
Alexandre Lemaire understands space as a meeting place of meanings and affections between the objects and subjects that inhabit it. As a French architect and interior designer, he takes advantage of the sensitivity in his profession and way of life. From the beginning of his career as a designer, he started to understand and appreciate the creative role of light. This led him to fall in love with lamps, becoming a genuine and passionate collector.
Alexandre Lemaire entend l’espace comme un lieu où se rejoignent significations et affects entre les objets et sujets qui l’habitent. En tant qu’architecte et designer d’intérieur français, il exploite sa sensibilité au sein de sa profession et de son propre mode de vie. Dès le début de sa carrière décoratrice il a compris et apprécié le rôle principal et créatif de la lumière, ce qui l’a entraîné à tomber amoureux des lampes, se transformant ainsi en un collectionneur authentique et passionné.
Since the age of 6, Alexandre Lemaire found a way to make the world his own through little collection rituals. Stamps, coins, toy soldiers, pins, and matchboxes were his first selective encounters that gave meaning to the world. Under this exercise of collection and appreciation of objects, Lemaire began to collect, in an orderly manner: lamp, household items, vases, ashtrays, lighters, monkeys, clocks, decorative items, furniture, industrial devices, and many more curiosities.
–The collection represents a process of search, observation, and encounters between the collector and his findings. In the moment of selection, the relationship established between the object and his five senses prevails upon everything. Thus, Eye Collection is born.–
À partir de l’âge de six ans il a trouvé une manière de s’approprier du monde à travers des petits rituels de recollection. Timbres, monnaies, soldats de plomb, pins et des boîtes d’allumettes furent ses premières rencontrent sélectives, celles-ci donnaient une signification au monde. À partir de cet exercice de rassemblement et de valorisation des objets, Lemaire commence à collectionner de manière ordonnée: lampes, articles domestiques, vases, cendriers, briquets, singes, montres, objets décoratifs, mobilier, artefacts industriels et beaucoup d’autres curiosités.