Série Rare, a powerful and original brand, is the expression of a designer, Daniel Podva, who transforms functional objects into genuine works of art through his own personal code. As a quality timeless material, bronze delivers up all its sensuality and magic to this artist. Série Rare Editions cultivate beauty in its purest state. Inspired and daring, the original style of these multiple creations comes forward as a self-evident reality and beckons one in to bask in a genuinely intimate emotion. Collections for those who seek to live their everyday life as a poetic journey.

Since 2011, MYDRIAZ has been revisiting the work of an artistic bronzesmith by producing high-quality and original brass objects. These three artists, who came to the craft industry through their desire to master the creative process from start to finish, combine their respective experiences to establish a dialogue between design, plastic and applied arts. Their work involving lighting and furniture combining tradition and modernity, nobility and avant-garde, focuses as much on substance as on form, revolving around themes such as time, the void, the inexorable, the random or the infinite, with a formal concern for finesse, sensitivity, precision and lightness.

Today it is uncommon to find gold and silversmiths’ workshops where an artisan masters the art of restoration and creation, but Nicolas Marischael is one of these. He has invaluable know-how, a genuine legacy handed down over four generations, which he puts into practice for the biggest museums, collectors, private individuals and professionals. Perpetuating the manufacture and restoration of silverwork, in 2001 he set out to create contemporary gold and silver work to bring his own personal touch to this art and overturn “traditional” restraints.

Created in Auvergne in 1840, the Maison Baguès, became established in the very heart of Paris in the 1860s, specialising in the creation of high-end light fittings. With its enormous collection of archives and models, the brand became famous thanks to the quality of its artisan expertise. Bronze and iron are worked using traditional chiselling, ironwork and spot welding techniques. Gilding or silver plating, or even the setting of Bohemian and rock crystals…the work is done by hand and takes a lot of time and skill! This unique know-how allows the brand to create exceptional, bespoke pieces to suit each customer’s requirements. A symbol of excellence among French artisans, the Maison Baguès is particularly successful abroad. The brand is a considered a global benchmark by many decorators. Some of its most beautiful works can be found in major hotels (the George V Four Seasons and the Ritz in Paris, the Baur au Lac in Zurich), luxury shops (Patek Philippe, Cartier, Ladurée), private palaces and listed buildings. Numerous designers and artists have also created models in collaboration with Baguès. A guarantee of elegance and quality, chandeliers and sconces decorated with parrots and leaves, typical of the Baguès style, are regularly found in art sales. Maison Baguès is reviving its most beautiful models and is open to modernity with its very contemporary lights, combining brass and alabaster. Today, Baguès is proud to be one of the last remaining manufacturers of crafted light fittings in France, and continues to develop its models in order to sell them all over the world.