Galleria candleholders

Galleria candleholder
GALLERIA marks the first collaboration between Ambroise Maggiar and CRILOI. GALLERIA is also the name given to covered and pedestrian spaces featured by monumental architecture, whose Italian origins symbolize the passage, like the impressive Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II overlooking Piazza del Duomo. Deeply influenced by the Italian design History and its architecture, designer Ambroise Maggiar has created a set of two candelholders with sculptural lines, referring to the architectural heritage of Milan city.

GALLERIA consists of two candleholders made of white Carrara marble and green Guatemala marble. The GALLERIA set can hold between one and three candles, depending on the size, and is entirely sculpted by hand by marble craftsmen from the historic quarries of Tuscany. Both decorative and functional, the contemporary arches designed by Ambroise Maggiar play with volumes and contrasts, alternating green and white marble color blocks in a checkerboard fashion. Solo or in duo, these two elements respond to each other and can be assembled to become a true architectural centerpiece, recreating the essence of the great Milanese monuments. The beveled edges give pieces a streamlined allure, created to prevent wax from spilling over the facets.

• Photos credit: ©AdamGoodison + @a.c.artstudio
• Materials: Carrara white and Green Guatemala marbles / Handmade in Italy
• Dimensions: 1 candle element- 130 x 60 x 180 mm / 3 candles element – 250 x 60 x 120 mm
• Retail price: 460 € (set of 2)
• Exclusively available on request at www.criloi.com

About Ambroise Maggiar
Ambroise Maggiar is a French designer born in Paris in 1978. He started his career in Milan to explore industrial processes in the consumer sector, through the Household Appliances market, before joining the Philippe Starck’s agency in 2011 in Paris. His knowledge of industrial processes and his vision earned him to take over as head of the
design department and to co-sign products with the designer. This collaboration allows him to operate in all facets of creation for the jewels of luxury goods, industry and the best publishers in the world; Kartell, Magis, Flos, Alessi, Duravit, Baccarat, Cassina or Samsung. From 2017 to 2019, he ran the design department of Studio Urquiola in Milan, where he developed resounding outdoor collections and «art de vivre» products both smart and decorative for CCTapis, Rossana Orlandi, Agape, Moroso or Kettal… In 2020, he founded his own design studio in Milan. Today, Ambroise Maggiar Studio collaborates with the world of luxury; Omega, Dior and Baccarat, signs exclusive pieces for Pretziada, CriLoi, the Charlois Group or XLBoom, designs furniture collections for the hotel industry, including the Laurent Taieb Group (Madame Rêve 5 stars hotel) and teams up with La Cabane Perchée, an exclusive French tree-house builder, to design unique architectural projects to live in and dream. He also joined the communication agency Artworklove as design Director and became a board member of the NGO Libraries Without Borders Italia, for which he designed deployment tools aimed at strengthen the capacity of people in vulnerable situations by facilitating access to education, culture, and information.
www.ambroisemaggiar.com