Magdeleine Design

With Magdeleine, Tiffanie Baso gives furniture the density of language. Trained in cabinetmaking and inspired by automotive design and fashion, she has developed a sensitive approach to curved wood, where curves become traces, tension and memories. Her creations—seats, mirrors, sculptures—are crafted as transitional objects: they connect breath to volume, shadow to light.

The piece Étreinte Noire embodies a turning point in her work. Suspended in space, between elevation and anchoring, it evokes a silent and vibrant twisting force. Wood, leather, metal chain: three materials merge into a free, tense, organic form. Wood is no longer structure, but emotion. The sculpted leather captures the light without absorbing it completely. It is a body, or its imprint. A suspended offering, with no assigned
function.

This vertical bas-relief marks a new direction in the designer’s approach: moving away from design to assert the work itself. An exclusive work of art, born from the need to explore the intimate, to break down the boundaries between function and fiction. •

photos : Soto, Magdeleine © Nacer Hamadi • Slacken © Magdeleine