Risking the Journey: carrying the seeds of memory.
"Near the end of the day, low mottled clouds dotting a tempting horizon, and a soft breeze skimming the water, they set out yet again in fragile boats whose very skin gave way undulating under the pressure of moving feet. They loaded up generously with memories, scant bare necessities of knowledge and lore, a smattering of artifacts and various urns, sacks, and boxes of provisions, destined for an unknown and unknowable shore." Click here to view the catalogue >]]> www.etiennegallery.nl]]> 5 minute tv interview, ("Question Maison", France 5) with Philip and Monica in Paris, April, 2008. Click here to view.

6 Mandel is a private house in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, in a beautiful setting adjacent to Trocadero and overlooking the Eiffel Tower. The house is owned by landscape architect Jean-Christophe Stoerkel, where we were invited to make a special exhibition of our work in the Spring of 2008. Visit www.nathaliebereau.com]]>
Click here to view video trailer]]> Abaco which was, and remains, a great success. Some years later Venini challenged us to do a large scale sculptural project. The result was Circo di Lune, a series of framed walls of metal with glass spheres, for which Abaco was the original inspiration. This became part of an entire new body of work, standing sphere sculptures, lighting, chandeliers, installations, a journey that continues to evolve to this day (see "Spheres" and “Installations“). The mudac Museum in Lausanne kicked off a travelling museum show series Circus of Spheres, which wove together these two strands, introducing our first sphere and metal sculptures, and incorporating the Venini objects.]]>