Katia Langeard is a ceramic artist and designer based in the South of France. Working at the intersection of sculpture, design and architecture, she creates collectible lighting, furniture and sculptural objects by hand. Her practice is rooted in a lifelong fascination with craftsmanship, shaped by her architectural background and artistic heritage. Inspired by geology, landscapes and the raw beauty of clay, her work explores material, light and form to create tactile, timeless pieces for contemporary interiors.

A fault line running through a lamp base

Fault Line. The name is the method: a stoneware base split by a line where a matte glaze meets a glossy one, both in the same neutral taupe, so the break is read by the light rather than by colour. Most of what Katia Langeard makes starts like this, with one structural idea pushed through a hand-built form. Bricks stacks. Snail coils. The Hold grips. Mountain Climb slopes. Fracture No. 01 cracks. None of the table lamps on this page has a smooth, thrown silhouette; the surfaces are matte, rough or semi-glossy, and the volumes have walls and layers the way a small building does.

The architecture is not a metaphor. Katia Langeard trained at the Moscow Architectural Institute, in a family of architects (her grandfather was the Soviet architect Oleg Goryachev), and practised architecture and interior design in Russia and across Europe before leaving in 2012. Ceramics came late: training between 2019 and 2023, a studio opened in 2023 in Èze, on the Riviera, then a residency in Vallauris. Her work has since entered one public collection and several private ones. That sequence explains why her ceramic table lamps behave like models of buildings before they behave like lighting.

The Too 60 series is the clearest statement of the off-white register. The Too 60 table lamp and the Too 60-2 work textured volumes with straight edges; the Too 60 floor lamp takes the same profile to standing height, in off-white, taupe or light grey. Around it, the palette widens by degrees. Fault Line in taupe. Oceano, an off-white base with semi-matte metallic details under a chocolate fabric shade. Terracotta Glow and Africa, warmer clay tones under linen. For the wall, the Layers sconces stack off-white textured stoneware into a fixture that belongs with the gallery's ceramic wall sconces; the Cliff mirror sets glass in a semi-glossy glazed frame; the Displaced Landscapes vase is meant for dry stems, and the Henri hurricane in black stoneware is the one dark object in the group.

Eighteen pieces are listed, each with its glaze, shade material and dimensions. Interior designers specifying a run of Katia Langeard sconces for a corridor or a set of bedside lamps for a hotel floor can place the order through the Trade Program.