Céline Wright

Céline Wright is a designer and maker who works with Washi paper, which she first encountered as a child growing up in Japan. After graduating in textile design from École Duperré, she worked briefly as a designer for Louis Vuitton, before making her first lighting. These would evolve into pieces whose large format belies their remarkable lightness. Céline Wright takes this natural material to its fullest possibilities through the experimental phase that precedes each of her creations. The technique she has developed, in collaboration with engineers, enables her to control the random lines of her organic, atmospheric sculptures, which she crafts entirely by hand. Since 1977 her workshop and brand have made poetry from paper, as seen, for example, in the flock of birds that lights up the Musée des Archives Nationales in Paris or her best-selling “Clouds” fairy lights.