D’Armes, a Quebec company designing and manufacturing high-end lighting, revealed two new collections as part of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which took place in New York last week. Selected in the Look Book section, which is reserved for the next generation, the studio confirms its positioning among emerging players on the North American market.
The result of a collaboration with two emerging designers, the Doppler and 1979 collections are part of the brutalist and elegant aesthetic of the Armes studio. In its workshops in Montreal and Morin-Heights, in the Laurentians, the lighting expert manufactures its innovative pieces with a view to sustainable design, from recyclable local aluminum and steel.
The Doppler collection, created by product designer Florian Martin, founder of the Belgian studio Finkr, stands out for the brilliance of its material: a metal adopting organic shapes reminiscent of water waves. 1979, by Montreal furniture designer Will Choui, focuses on simple and refined lines that elevate the decor.
“For us, it’s a bit of a turning point. Our studio can now share its expertise with young designers and seek greater diversity in creation,” says Armes co-founder Gildas Le Bars. “It’s an opportunity to develop shapes and explore other techniques that push us elsewhere, to which we add a quality of manufacturing and lighting that is essential to us.”