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Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper

Petite Friture borrows modernist architectural details for Abstraction collection

Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper featuring geometric patterns based on optical illusions and modernist buildings. 

Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Celia-Hannes' Kling lighting pairs bell-shaped shades with anthracite brass rings

The range – which will be unveiled at Maison&Objet in Paris – includes pendant lamps with circular details, lights that hang together in clusters and wallpaper that takes inspiration from architectural details.

French design brand Petite Friture plans to show the collection among an installation of mirrors and brightly coloured geometric panels, designed to emphasise the pieces' connection with optical art.

Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
The Kling lighting is also available with an arched support attached to two contrasting shades

Included in the range is French-Austian duo Celia-Hannes' Kling lighting, which pairs bell-shaped shades with anthracite brass rings. The lamps come in several different table and pendant versions, attached to a single circle or to an arched support that contrasts shades in different shapes and sizes.

Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Sylvain Willenz' Chains lamps feature subtly ridged black shades

Belgian designer Sylvain Willenz has designed a set of lamps that function as a "lighting garland", featuring subtly ridged black shades that can be arranged as a single light or in groups that are hung bunched together.

Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
They can be bunched together to form a "lighting garland"

The Abstraction range also features wallpaper that borrows from architectural forms, including French designer Leslie David's postmodern-style Constellation 1 and 2, which pair slender lines with chunky circles and rectangles.

Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Wallpaper in the Abstraction range is by Leslie David and Ana Montiel

Mexico-based illustrator Ana Montiel's Utopia Ascending wallpaper is more riotous, featuring a jumble of overlapping shapes that also seem to have been borrowed from modernist buildings.

Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Montiel's Utopia Ascending design has a jumble of overlapping shapes

Petite Friture – which was established in 2009 to champion the work of young French designers – often adopts a playful approach to its products, previously launching sausage-shaped lamps and sofas covered in cushions designed to look like giant pebbles.

The brand demonstrated its love of mid-century earlier in the year, when it showed a new furniture collection against a backdrop styled on a vibrant, modernist home.

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Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper
Petite Friture's Abstraction collection includes lighting and wallpaper