ABOUT
Biography
Hélène de Saint Lager is a French sculptor and designer based in Paris, working from a home-studio-laboratory in Ivry-sur-Seine. She is known for furniture and objects cast in resin, poured aluminium and bronze.
A graduate of the École du Louvre in Art History, she trained early across a range of hands-on trades, including painting restoration, millinery, sculpture, moulding and metalwork, before developing her own studio practice.
Her furniture is built the way a painting is built: layer after layer, with pigment and found objects suspended in resin and left to settle. The same instinct for controlled accident carries into her aluminium work, where molten metal is poured into sand moulds or over steel plate and left to petrify mid-flow.
Decorator Jacques Garcia was among the first to recognise her singularity, commissioning monumental works for his projects since 2007, including resin furniture for the Schiaparelli salons on Place Vendôme and more recent projects in France. Architect Peter Marino has placed her tables in Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior boutiques worldwide, with recent commissions including projects in Milan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul.
Her work has been presented by Galerie Artcurial, Galerie du Passage and Galerie Arcturus in Paris, and by Twenty First Gallery in New York. She continues to develop new furniture, lighting and sculptural works through commissions and gallery collaborations internationally.
Selected Commissions
Ongoing
- Louis Vuitton boutiques worldwide — Peter Marino
- Christian Dior boutiques worldwide — Peter Marino
- Recent Louis Vuitton projects: Milan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul
- Large-scale chandeliers in gilded cast aluminium — Twenty First Gallery, New York
Recent
- Presidential Terminal, Paris Airports — Jacques Garcia project, 2024
- Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo, Monaco — Jacques Garcia project
Earlier
- Schiaparelli, Place Vendôme, Paris — 2013
- L’Institution, Lyon — 2012
- Monumental commissions for Jacques Garcia — ongoing since 2007
Exhibitions
Twenty First Gallery
Tables for Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior boutiques worldwide, New York, USA
Galerie Arcturus
Alualéatoires — random-cast aluminium, Paris, France
Galerie du Passage
Resin works, Paris, France
Bourse de Paris
Objective Gallery, Salon THEMA, Paris, France
2020
Exhibition in New York, USA
2004 – 2005
Carpets, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France
The Studio
Ivry-sur-Seine, just outside Paris. Resin in buckets, pigment mid-mix, aluminium cooling on the floor. The studio doubles as a laboratory, and looks like one. Nothing is staged for the photograph. This is simply where the work happens, one layer at a time.
