François Kessler

François Kessler is a designer and engineer based in Strasbourg. He studied engineering and then applied arts, first to understand how things work and then to build them himself, and he describes his work as the translation of functions and emotions into tangible, sensitive objects.

His approach starts from a need and from a reading of the world and of society, aiming at something different and better rather than merely new, through a mix of the technical and the artistic, the functional and the irrational. He collaborates with companies in industrial sectors as well as in furniture and lighting, with pieces such as the Lampe-ion and the Pandora table lamp in crystal and metal, and sells a selection of his designs through an online shop.