Yellow And Black Stripe Fish

As far as I can remember, I have always drawn and designed things.
At the end of my Studies at the Sorbonne and the Grande Ecole des Arts Decoratifs de Paris, I started my first furniture company in France in 1979, which still exist under the name Espace loggia, and sold it in 1992.
I then started with my wife another furniture and interior design company in Paris called Louis XX, which we sold in 2001.
We decided then to leave France and immigrate in the US and more particularly in the Florida Keys, along with our 4 kids.
I started sculpting and painting Florida’s wild life in 2005 after visiting the NewYork Museum of Natural Science.
The mammal and fish skeletons hanging from the ceiling over the visitors or standing in the prehistoric rooms left an indelible impression on me, of atemporality and eternalness as well. I felt that they were still animated if by barely perceptible movement. Like slices of life, massive calcified paint strokes having kept beyond death some subtle motion of their own. I started dreaming of huge mobile, of installations showing sequences of matter and emptiness, suggesting eternal voyage around the world and under the sea. These reconstituted skeletons are our heritage, testifying of the infinite beauty of Earth’s wildlife. Their shapes convey the contradictory message of death and survival, that is the essence of the life that surround and support our own existence. Like all other places of paradise ,the Florida Keys are the target of choice of the usual predators, whose greed and carelessness want to impose short term and unsustainable development.
I know that destruction looms. Oil hemorrhaging in the gulf’s water, the not so slow plastic poisoning of the ocean that will eventually contaminate our reef, or less spectacular but at least as deadly, the relentless vandalism from locals and tourists who take for granted the capacity of our environment to absorb and digest our trash, to repopulate our waters.
Sculpting the wild life that strives in the Florida Keys is another way to make us aware of the beauty that surround us. I want to believe that my sculptures will help to spread the urge to protect this American paradise. I sell my art through galleries and exhibitions, and the custom furniture through decorators and contractors in Southern Florida.
I make custom furniture that include sculpture and paintings or not, like zinc and concrete top tables, trunk-desk for home office, ceiling beds, and any other piece I dream of or I am asked to design and make.