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Fireplace Stûv 16: Stûv America
Artwork: Matière Noire I by Nicolas Baier at Blouin Division Lighting: Lambert & Fils
Furniture: Tout Va Bien Sideboard by Antoine and Manuel, BD Barcelona Armchairs: Moustache
Lamp: Shogun by Mario Botta, Artemide Carpet: Will Choui

Project partners: process and the perception of the work. eaux nocturnes, which is available at the
Lambert & Fils: An ode to light He is interested by the ideas of movement, Chiguer Art Contemporain gallery.
Custom creations are at the heart of the circulation, and transformation. chiguerartcontemporain.com
brand’s identity. Lambert & Fils offers its Here, the fireplace is the canvas for a
team’s expertise to all its clients. Designers, piece created on site by Morelli in the Stûv America: Functional aesthetic
makers, experts, and technicians create tradition of home wall drawing. François Stûv America distinguishes itself
unique projects. Hundreds of custom Morelli started to work with stamping in by offering a contemporary vision of
lights are created and handmade every the 1970s before adding the use of stencils, auxiliary heating in the form of innovative
month in the company’s studio, from which allows a superposition of images to wood-burning appliances that combine
design to installation. Here, Lambert create a larger image. Following his first aesthetics and performance. All Stûv
& Fils’ custom projects team imagined residency at the Chambre Blanche gallery in products are high quality, durable and
the Parc collection to create a unique Quebec City, where he used approximately offer an incomparable fire experience in
suspended light. 10 stamps, he began working in houses in terms of both heat and view of the flames.
lambertetfils.com 1995, exchanging a meal for a wall drawing Founded in 2007, Stûv America has
connecting architecture, living spaces, and adapted the Belgian genius of minimalist
François Morelli: The art of home wall artistic creation. design, without compromising on quality
drawing In 2022, he went back to this tradition and efficiency, to the realities of America.
In addition to being a major figure of of the travelling designer for La Maison Many of the company's 35 models of
visual art in Quebec, François Morelli Noire. For this work, called La nuit, wood stoves and fireplaces are now
is considered one of the pioneers of tous les chats sont gris, five images were manufactured at the Bromont plant.
relational art. He uses a multidisciplinary produced and translated using stamps stuvamerica.com
technique - including drawing, printing, to complete images already existing in
installation, sculpture, and painting - Morelli’s work. The mural, the first to Simon Johns: A bar imagined as jewellery
influenced by a constant reflection on be printed on black support, inspired Simon Johns is a designer who lives
the status of an object within the creative a series on canvas called Les grandes and works in Bolton-Est, in Southern

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