Through Lomm Editions, a 90-year-old French furniture designer’s lost archive was brought to life
The French line brings Odile Mir’s forgotten portfolio into the present, reissuing pieces shaped by decades of creative work.
Now in her nineties, French artist and designer Odile Mir has spent her life creating. Now she has partnered with her architect granddaughter Léonie Alma Mason to launch furniture line Lomm Editions.
The enterprise draws inspiration from Mir’s design archive. Prior to the 1970s, when she began to focus her energy on being an artist, Mir produced several striking furniture pieces with French chain Prisunic, including the David armchair, a hammock-style piece made with leather stretched with springs on a thin chrome frame. But after a fire at the factory destroyed part of her work, Mir went back to making sculptures.
Alma Mason only discovered her grandmother’s archive in the 2010s after Mir asked her to find a maker that would reproduce the David armchair. Soon, Lomm Editions was born with a mission to bring Mir’s design work back to life. The company has re-edited pieces including the Filo chair, the Duo lamp and the David armchair in a partnership that involves a lot of cross-generational give and take. “Sometimes I have to give in and sometimes she does,” says Alma Mason, laughing. “But we always find the perfect balance.”
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