Michel Coste

Since the 2000s, Daum has collaborated with the French sculptor Michel Coste, in a shared pursuit of purity, light, and emotion. Together, they have created more than four works, including the remarkable Marine and Aurore, which embody the artist's quest for the essential. Born in Aix-en-Provence, Michel Coste sculpts closely with the material. His work is characterized by forms carved by hand from raw blocks, inspired by nature and the energy of the materials. Each sculpture bears witness to a direct, powerful, and poetic gesture, where the human form is revealed in a simplicity of means, almost mineral.

In his collaboration with Daum, Michel Coste finds a new language: crystal glass, a vibrant and luminous material, becomes an extension of his sculpture. Transparency, reflections, and variations in thickness enhance the pure lines of his female figures, capturing the moment, silence, and serenity. The Marine piece, a limited edition of 175 pieces, embodies this timeless elegance, a refined female silhouette emerging from a fluid mass, as if sculpted in a wave of light.

Michel Coste's work is rooted in a contemporary and minimalist sculptural approach, where the body is never shown naturalistically, but as a symbolic form, imbued with spirituality and calm. His style connects him to the great names of Mediterranean sculpture, where matter and light engage in a controlled tension between full and empty, mass and transparency.

With Daum, the artist pursues his search for essential form, sublimated by the virtuosity of the glassmakers. Each piece is a suspended moment, a silhouette revealed in the material, between opacity and clarity, strength and delicacy. This collaboration of more than twenty years testifies to Daum's commitment to an art of sculpture that is demanding, sincere and timeless. Michel Coste's works naturally find their place in the universe of the Manufacture, where light becomes matter, and matter, emotion.