Born on Réunion Island, Gaspard Graulich has always been inspired by the connection to nature he felt during a childhood spent on a tropical volcanic island. He left home more than 15 years ago, but Graulich recently had the sense that the connection was drifting away. “I went back and spent two weeks alone, wandering around the island, using photography to capture the landscape,” he explains. “But a landscape exists not because of the view, but because of the smells, the sounds, and the winds. Landscapes are not images but emotional blasts that can be experienced with the eyes closed.” Graulich’s new collection pays tribute to that experience, using furniture as a way to comfort us — or evoke discomfort. His Horizon light, rooted in lava stone, symbolizes the point between daylight and dark, while the stoneware tiles of his Terrestre bench mimic the sensation of sitting on a rock.

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