What Petite Friture is known for
French design editor founded by Amélie du Passage, presenting its debut collection at Paris's Maison & Objet fair in 2010. Its best-known piece, the Vertigo pendant lamp, was designed by Constance Guisset from her graduation project.
Petite Friture is a French design-editing house founded by Amélie du Passage, which presented its debut collection at the Maison & Objet trade fair in Paris in early 2010. Rather than manufacturing from an in-house studio, Petite Friture operates as an editor, commissioning pieces from a roster of emerging designers and putting them into series production. Its best-known object is the Vertigo pendant light, designed by Constance Guisset, which began as her graduation project. The lamp's structure is built from a stretched metallic mesh so light that a piece spanning roughly two metres weighs under 500 grams, letting it sway and slowly rotate in ambient air currents and cast a shifting, semi-transparent pattern of light and shadow. The design was noticed early by Milan's Rossana Orlandi gallery, a well-known launchpad for emerging designers, and pieces from the Vertigo line have since entered the permanent collections of institutions including Paris's Musée des Arts Décoratifs and New York's Museum of Modern Art. Vertigo has since been produced in multiple sizes and finishes — pendant, floor lamp and outdoor versions — and remains the piece most associated with the company's identity as a platform for younger lighting and furniture designers.
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