Eiffel

Eiffel takes something monumental and finds an unexpected connection with the everyday. The iron lattice of the Eiffel Tower provides one reference, while the woven patterns of Parisian café chairs provide another. Architecture and furniture might seem unlikely companions, yet both find beauty in structure.

There is a wonderful lightness to the Eiffel Tower when seen from a distance. For all its extraordinary scale and weight, much of what we perceive is space. Iron crosses iron, but the gaps between are equally important. It is this openness that prevents the structure from feeling heavy.

Woven furniture achieves something surprisingly similar. Its strength comes from crossing and connecting slender elements rather than creating a solid surface. The resulting pattern is functional, but decoration seems to arrive almost by accident.

Translating that idea into mosaic introduces an enjoyable contradiction. Glass is used to describe something that originally depends upon empty space. Solid pieces become a lattice, and colour takes the place of iron or woven cane.

Eiffel sits somewhere within those exchanges. Monumental and domestic, structural and decorative, Parisian without needing to rely on familiar imagery. Its references are there to be discovered rather than announced, leaving the pattern to enjoy the simple pleasure of things crossing, connecting and holding together.

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