Lambert et Fils

Lambert & Fils is a Montreal studio, founded in 2010, and everything they sell is assembled by hand in the atelier a few streets off Beaubien. Hand assembly is unusual enough on its own. The useful part on a project is the second half: because the pieces are built to order in the atelier, a collection can be sized, lengthened or reconfigured for the room instead of the room being planned around a catalogue length.

They also run the studio as a platform for other designers, so the collections don’t all sound like one person. Four we specify most.

Laurent Collection

Laurent is the milk globe, reduced to the argument between a circle and a sphere. Thin brass forms cut through the glass, and because they combine in more or less endless patterns, a Laurent installation can run as one pendant over a table or as a field of them across a lobby ceiling and still read as the same idea.

Silo Collection

Silo is the one people notice. Curves that shape the light around themselves rather than pushing it straight down, so it shapes the room as well as lighting it.

Custom aluminum extrusions carry it, and it throws light up and down at once, so one run handles the ceiling and the table under it.

Beaubien Atelier Collection

Beaubien Atelier is the vertical one, drawn from a waterfall and a weeping willow. It hangs long. That makes it the answer to a stairwell or a two-storey lobby where the eye has nothing to land on between floors.

Hung in a group at staggered heights it stops reading as a fixture and starts reading as a piece of the architecture, which is usually the point of specifying it.

Isle Collection

Isle is a glass tube resting on stone and aluminum pedestals, so it seems to hang in mid-air. Minimal, and it earns its place over a table or a reception desk.

If you have any questions about Lambert & Fils or any of the products you’ve seen in our blog, please reach out to our team!

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