French designer Ferréol Babin makes his Cassina debut with Polyshape, a pair of sculptural lamps that highlight the minimalist beauty of geometry. The design marks the second chapter of Cassina’s Patronage Project, an initiative dedicated to discovering emerging international designers and giving them a platform on a global stage. With their bold forms and distinctive metallic finishes, the table and floor lamps strike a careful balance between art object and functional design.
Babin has long explored the interplay between shape and function, from his Brut shelves, brutalist yet delicate, to the minimalist Shutter Lamp. His work is grounded in rationality, with clean geometry and careful proportions, yet it always carries a poetic, emotional element. That tension between structure and feeling comes through in Polyshape, where pure geometry is softened and made luminous through light.
At the heart of Polyshape is clarity of form. Both the table and floor lamps are composed of intersecting geometries: a cylindrical base, a rectangular stem, and a flat rectangular head. Offered in four distinctive finishes – blue, red, green, and anthracite – their opaque, glossy surfaces enhance both the sculptural quality and the diffusion of light. The table lamp directs light downward, while the floor lamp adds a unique upward-pointing spotlight, giving users the choice between focused illumination for reading or ambient glow for gatherings. Both versions are dimmable, making them as adaptable as they are striking.
Cassina reinforces its role as both a pioneer of modern design and a champion of emerging international talents. Babin’s debut demonstrates how geometry, when distilled to its purest forms, can become the foundation for poetic lighting – a fitting next chapter for both the designer and the Patronage Project.
To learn more about the Polyshape table and floor lamps by Ferréol Babin for Cassina, visit cassina.com.
Photography by Paola Pansini.
