Telha is a Vista Alegre porcelain collection of accessories to be used at home or at the office.

Inspired from the old tiles that have been applied on the frontages of traditional portugese houses, the collection is composed of three elements.

There is a box that balances between two positions; a “vide-poche” divided in three separate parts and two supports for stationery and touch pads.

All the elements can be used in many ways.

Telha is unveiling during NYC Design Week, at Wanted Design, on 18-21 May 2012.

The shapes of this crystal vase begins with the specifics caracteristics of this material.

Thanks to its heavy weight, the crystal allows few contacts with the surface as well as a stability of the vase. This way, Obice does not clutter any space, and thus enables a use in everyday life, on a desk for instance.

The incredible transparency which magnifiyed the elements inside is used as a protection. Therefore, Obice becomes a container and also a cover which emphasises the beauty of flowers.

This vase is an hand-blown Vista Alegre crystal piece.

Obice is unveiling during NYC Design Week, at Wanted Design, on 18-21 May 2012.

Gates is an interior croquet game for adult players.

It's composed of sycamore maple, cork and leather. It was realized thanks to French and Swiss craftsmen.

The lines of this game, composed of too many parts, have been simplified from the original to make it compact and usable inside.

There are two mallets, six gates and two stakes. Two balls are inside the stakes when they are embedded in the six gates returned. The unit is displaceable through the leather loop.

For the wink, Louis XIV, one of the France's kings, liked playing croquet but he couldn't play during winter, therefore he forsook it. It disappeared from France to be played more in Scotland and the Uk that's why I tried to answer to an old royal waiting.

Eca l/free project

How your new star could make her
first dreams ?

Your birth gift should be a symbol. The newcomer is the new star of a couple and they want her to realize all their dreams.

Abracadabra is a silver star with the name of the child above. It fits on all her colored pencils, to become her own magic wand, thus, all her dreams will begin with a drawing.

Abracadabra was unveiled during Designer’s Days Paris in June 2011 at Maison Christofle.

Eca l/workshop with Xavier Perrenoud

How to celebrate the iconic Harcourt glass and his unique shape ?

I return the glass to remove its primary function and to contemplate only its shape. Then, I add a new function which benefits flat coats, the peculiarity of the Harcourt glass.

The tray is placed on the hexagon and the foot of the glass becomes the handle.

This project was unveiled during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan in April 2011 for the anniversary of the iconic Baccarat's glass. In a second time, Flat was shown during the first edition of Paris Design Week in Maison Baccarat for the heritage exhibition Harcourt forever. Visible until January 28th, 2012.

Eca l/workshop with Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby

Make bubbles seems to be the only game through which an adult finds a few seconds, the wonder of a child.

Blow is the combination of a spoon and a bubble stick which allows to big children to find again their chilhood pleasure.

Less intrusive but equally effective.

What can we offer to the consumer for his loyalty ?

Practice allows storage and entertainment. The cookies are inside. The capsules are above and when we remove them, we discover an improvised golf course.

A little something could change the coffee time.

Eca l/workshop with Alexander Taylor

Past or present ?

Or is a projection of gold to create a link between a contemporary movement and a traditional know-how.

Gold is used traditionally to decorate. Here, the impulse of the gesture borrowed from the street art allows to date the creation.

The line distinguishes each piece meanwhile creating a collection.

Eca l/workshop with Pierre Charpin

Romain Lagrange is a French designer, graduated from a MA of Interaction Design at Gobelins and from a Master of Advanced Studies in Luxury & Design at ECAL/University of art and design in Lausanne, Switzerland.

He has been working for internationally recognized brands such as Baccarat, Christofle, Bernardaud, Vista Alegre, Audemars Piguet, Nespresso, or Blackberry and Rado.

Moreover, he exhibited his work at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, then at Designer’s Days in Paris. Afterwards, he has been establishing his design office in France.

Romain focuses on what future will be made of, on what is essential, on common sense that we tend to forget; therefore, he is attracted by a logical way of using materials with the aim to rethink long term objects typologies.

His work has been published in the most influencial magazines like Surface, DAMn°, Etapes:, Interni, Intramuros and many others.

In January 2012, he was selected by the far-famed Wallpaper* Magazine to be part of the Graduate Directory as one who 'might just change the world'.

He will present on May 18—21 2012, his first exhibition in New York, part of Wanted Design, with two new projects with the historical Portuguese company Vista Alegre.

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  Wallpaper* Magazine 154
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  DAMn° Magazine 31
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  Surface Magazine 3/4 12
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  Arquitectura y Diseño
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  Etapes é:194
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  Maison Française n°445
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  Interni 10
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  Maison Française n°576
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  Intramuros n°155
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  L'Officiel 1000 modèles n°9
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  DESIGN 164