Douglas Mont is a designer and collector of certain lights from Maison Rispal, when it is about to disappear, he brings it back to life. This house that he loves, he adapts it both in terms of materials and designs without distorting his DNA. Rispal with its catalog of iconic objects such as the 14.950 lamp, designed in the 1950s, allows Douglas Mont to travel back in time with eco-responsible luxury lighting.
Creation is the essence of my pleasure
Douglas Mont, designer and buyer of Maison Rispal
” I intervene in several areas, either, I am interested in a brand like Rispal and the creative interest is part of the respect for the spirit and the history of the brand to ensure its continuity. The job of a designer is also to understand history in order to rewrite it, reinvent it and move it forward. The talent of the creator is to use contemporary techniques, but to appropriate the history of the houses for which he works in order to give the most relevant and the fairest response to each of these companies. »
Douglas Mont, designer and buyer of Maison Rispal, studied architecture and then turned to interior design. He discovers the design and drawing of objects, which pleases him enormously. However, he has an all-consuming passion for painting which leads him to New York. Along the way, he returned to France to launch a plastic design furniture publishing company. After about ten years, growing ecological awareness and above all tired of industrial production, Douglas Mont refocused on fundamentals and at the same time discovered a possibility of takeover of Maison Rispal that he loves.
” The starting point was to redo the icon of the House which is called the praying mantis, at the time the safety standards did not exist and it was therefore necessary to rewrite, change its geometry, bring it up to taste of the day while preserving its original spirit. We have therefore updated the curves and lines a little bit, to make them more contemporary. We used techniques and means of digital production, which allows us to have really perfect curves. Afterwards, we needed more qualitative lighting with the existing systems, to multiply the light sources so that it is more homogeneous. It is a work that is both technical and aesthetic. “says the designer and buyer of Maison Rispal.
According to Douglas Mont, the best protection for preserving Maison Rispal’s manufacturing secrets is not to file a patent.
” Secrecy is the best protection. And then it’s very nice, it adds a little bit of mystery, allows you to tell stories. There is always a secret ingredient, in this case, it is the molding technique to make the lampshades. Initially, it looks like a sheet of paper, this sheet is then pleated, once pleated it is transformed into a kind of sphere. I liked the technical challenge a lot. That of not allowing beautiful stories like that of Maison Rispal to fall asleep and die. »
” And to finish, there is everything that I can bring more to the house with my work as a designer, that is to say, inspired by the drawings and the historical DNA to reinvent it, today, by creating new designs inspired by iconic models designed in the 1950s. It is a continuity », concludes Douglas Mount.
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