En 2019 le Mobilier National commande à Nicolas Aubagnac le dessin d’un projet de bureau et de sa desserte.
Ce sont les ébénistes de l’ARC (Atelier de Recherche et de Création) qui se sont vu confié la réalisation de ce pari technique : l’association d’un matériau traditionnel, l’ébène de Macassar, avec un matériau contemporain, le Corian. La bichromie des deux matières souligne le dialogue entre l’ébénisterie traditionnelle et la recherche expérimentale. Le bureau est équipé de deux tablettes extractibles qui se déploient comme des ailes grâce à un mécanisme sur roulement à billes spécialement mis au point. Pour souligner la destination officielle du meuble, deux filets de résine translucide ont été sertis dans le plateau, l’un bleu, l’autre rouge.
Discrète célébration des couleurs républicaines. Force, noblesse, équilibre, ce projet à caractère symbolique vient enrichir la collection des créations déjà réalisées par Nicolas Aubagnac pour le Mobilier National.

Here's a new oval version of my HELIOS table. The overall line remains soft and the curve of the top is generous, giving the HELIOS table a strong presence in the room. The base has been redesigned to match this change in shape: the four curved wooden legs come together on an elegant central ring, also oval in shape. The straw marquetry that adorns the tabletop creates a sunburst of changing colours: copper, caramel and amber...
To reflect the change of season, the HELIOS table is transformed into a beautiful autumn sun.

More beautiful, bigger, and more radiant than ever! Resting on a base of natural oak with gently curved edges like those of a canoe … the journey has already begun! Its splendid sun-shape straw marquetry combines vegetal shades resembling fresh grass in a meadow. The marquetry covers both sides of the lamp for its even better when the lamp is placed in front of a mirror or on a central console. But it can also be a sumptuous bedside lamp that wakes you every morning like a rising springtime sun. Bring in the light!

"With this exceptional piece of furniture combining a sculptured frame of solid ebony with sheathed parchment panels, it was my desire to combine the unique ability that my cabinet makers possess with an innovative procedure of imagery sublimation. This summer I took a series of photos of the shadows cast by the rosemary bushes on the patio of my house in Sicily. I wanted to share these beautiful pictures depicting shadow and light by integrating them poetically into one of my designs. Thanks to this patented and unpublished procedure of controlled oxidation, I was able to project my pictures onto parchment panels that had previously been covered in varnished oxidized silver leaf. I then created a mosaic using the photos to decorate all three sides of the cabinet. As a result, this piece of furniture became an imaginary and precious ‘Herbarium’ where technology, tradition and poetry simultaneously work together in harmony."

Inspired by the Sinan console table, here is the Sinan coffee table. A change in decoration, a change in proportion, a change of materials …. It’s not in the least bit similar and yet it has the same shape! That’s the magic of design.

The base is made from natural oak as I wanted to evoke the elegance and strength found in the design of roof timbers in old buildings. In particular, I was thinking of the beautiful roof of Notre Dame de Paris that is in the process of being restored.
A precious framework nevertheless with cut sides creating an elaborate set of facets. In the middle, a dazzling golden ember tray of blonde Mica marquetry, protected by glass, like a framed work of art.

I love to draw with a pencil, you know, the old-fashioned pencils with a hexagonal shape and thin sides. Well, this timeless shape gave me the inspiration for this bronze console! So here is the Sinan console.

Of course, when looking at the console a pencil no longer comes to mind: its strong and tapered silhouette gives it an air of both strength and elegance. Just look at the angles! Like a carved stone ….

The plateau made from travertine has a silky touch versus the special grainy appearance of patinated bronze. A particular finish that I wanted to obtain between softness and roughness. A touch of detail at the foot of each leg: faceted crown hoofs resembling delicate shoes.

And all this thanks to a pencil ….

A limited edition with only 12 pieces, each one signed and numbered.

One might call it a sculpture of ice stalactites imprisoned in a box. In any event, this is indeed the image that brought about the inspiration for this second version of the Thot lamp made from gypsum and oak.

Its clean and distinct silhouette calls to mind a totem dedicated to imaginary gods. The gypsum marquetry decorates both sides of the lamp, for it is even more beautiful if the lamp is placed in front of a mirror ….

An icy object of beauty that once lit will sparkle with a thousand lights warming up your eyes.

Légère, graphique, précieuse voici SALSA III la nouvelle applique de Nicolas Aubagnac. Entièrement forgée à la main, elle est ensuite revêtue de feuilles d'or par notre doreur. Comme un ruban gracieux qui se déplie sur le mur, l'applique SALSA semble léviter dans l'espace. L'abat-jour peut être décliné en différentes matières : taffetas, rabanne tressée, soie plis "Dior"... De même l'applique peut être déclinée en acier noir mat, à la feuille d'or blanc ou à la feuille de cuivre... Choisissez !

Toute en rondeurs, la lampe Seti s’élève en une forme évasée, comme la corolle d’une fleur. Elle s’habille d’un cuir pleine fleur aux coloris pimpants : vert tilleul ou mandarine. Son abat-jour en rabane tressée apporte une touche végétale et chaleureuse. C’est un modèle ludique et gourmand qui prendrait volontiers place dans une maison de vacances, à la campagne ou en bord de mer. Une lampe très attachante.

La lampe Cyrus s’élève gracieusement en un cône très étiré au sommet duquel semble flotter la lumière chaleureuse et texturée de l’abat- jour de rabane tressée. Le corps élancé s’enveloppe dans un gainage de cuir pleine fleur aux couleurs éclatantes. Comme un bijou sur une encolure, Cyrus repose confortablement sur une couronne de perles dorées. Rondeur et éclat !

PAPYRUS

Nicolas Aubagnac's reinterpretation of iconic designs he created for Pouenat

as a starred night-time sky in the summer!

resembling a piece a folded paper...

a block of molten glass with a swirl of pure black, translucent and opaque

A stylised nenuphar?.. An asteroid?.. The remains of a column?..

Both a sculpture and a light

An ode to nature : The KAMI coffee table

Orage cabinet : a minimalist simplicity to its shapea solid cube placed on top of an empty cube.

" I wanted both a simple footstool and a throne, bronze made this possible..."

A dark star out of which colours of black, brown, blue and copper emergeveiled and glittering...a coffee table or a work of art?

strength and softness combined

Babylone on Hudson

a precious dressing table

evening star

curiosity cabinet

like a piece of jewellery...

"Grand Siècle" collection

a well-informed collectors piece

an ode to classical architecture

a tribute to Jeanne Lanvin

ode to the light

tribute to Jeanne Lanvin

an invitation to travel in space...

The "Renaissance" cabinet revisited

an iconic creation

an elegant classic that is truly French

Melancolia

inspired by an Egyptian chest

tribute to the Ottoman architect