La Voliere Bird Lamps by Mathieu Challieres

Collyn loves this… Because it’s more than a flight of fancy. Paris-based lighting designer Matheiu Challieres has created a series of strange aviaries, beautiful, copper-wire lamps housing delicate birds of every colour. These frozen menageries seem to await the fairy dust that will bring them to life and let them flutter free from their birdcage. Challieres avoids the mumsy pastiche of putting birds on a chandelier by turning the cage into the chandelier. Warming and delicate, the fantastic whimsy of these pieces lures us out of the safety of modernism into a brave new world where illusion is king and rooms are transformed by avian mirages. What a dream to be a bird! La Voliere Shade £330