About

Atelier Cire exists through the desire to combine culture, art, crafts, creation, design and decoration, all spheres in which I have always worked professionally.

Apart from a few visits to sculpture schools when I was a child and then a student, I have always had infinite pleasure in watching artists, all artists: they tell us with panache so many things that enlighten us.

I thus dedicated my first ten professional years to promoting artists. The world of decoration knocked on my door when I wanted to edit objects that I imagined that fulfilled very specific functions but that I could not find in stores. What followed, without me realizing it, eighteen years of working in this creative ferment that is decoration and design. What ideas, what beautiful things, what enthusiasm for all these designers and brands for whom beauty is a necessity, a postulate that I fully share.

It was therefore not difficult for me to want to highlight sculptor artists through a simple and universal object appreciated by all: a candle. Through this association, I wanted to offer a decorative object with a strong personality, to bring art into the homes of more people, to highlight the artistic gesture and to question the impermanence of things. And all this around a candle that is synonymous for me with comfort, magnificence, celebration and rest.

Dorothée Cottin

Face to face with Jayavarman VII.
The king is depicted in mature age, meditating in all humility with his eyes lowered. His lips display the "smile of Angkor".
Jayavarman VII (1120/25-1218), Khmer king.
Paris, Guimet Museum - National Museum of Asian Arts.

Photo credit
© Antoine Cottin (2002, already?)