Nathalie Ziegler

Born the daughter of an aeronautical engineer in Paris in 1970, Nathalie Ziegler is known for her enchanting, gravity-defying works spun from glass and light. She is self-taught in glass sculpture and launched her first collection for Arums in 2002 at Maison et Objet’s Scene d’Interieur show. Since then, her work has gained admirers far and wide via presentations at galleries, fairs and private residences across the world. Ziegler’s suspended glass and light creations are made from multitudes of blown glass shapes cut into pieces and composed into larger aggregate forms often inspired by flowers, birds, and other natural phenomena. Her work is uniquely embedded in the historical traditions of beautiful French craftsmanship drawn from centuries of celebrated know-how. The glass used in her pieces is produced by Verrerie de Saint-Just, the famed glassworks established in 1826 by royal decree of Charles X, which created the glass for projects by many historically esteemed artists including Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Fernand Léger. Ziegler’s artful, one of a kind lighting sculptures catch the eye, dance with light and illuminate the spaces they inhabit. Silvered and sandblasted glass pieces are cut and assembled to refract and propagate light into subtle ornamental and ethereal visions. To achieve these stunning effects, Ziegler works with several other traditional French houses: Egrise et Millon in Pantin, which performs manual silvering and sandblasting of Saint Just glasses; Les Ateliers Marcotte, the last remaining bronzers in Paris skilled in the art of made to measure, lathe-cut suspension structures; and Lorraine-based Mad Verrerie D’Art, the glass art workshop responsible for creating delicate glass cones to cover the bulbs within her sculptures. Ziegler’s work has been exhibited internationally in Italy, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Bangkok, and Hong Kong.  In France, her work has appeared at numerous locations including Printemps du Lux at the Museum of Decorative Arts, PAD Paris, Hôtel de Crillon and Hôtel des Bains.  Her pieces are held in numerous private collections throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and the US. Recently, two of her suspensions were installed in L‘Abbazia San Gregorio at the Contemporary Art Biennale in Venice. Autumnal Forest Chandelier was exhibited  at Salon Art + Design 2022, New York and Icy Chandelier was exhibited at PAD Paris 2022. A unique piece entitled Rêves D’ô was commissioned by The Mobilier National de Paris for Les Aliénés exhibition in 2022 when the museum acquired a Ziegler lamp for their collection. Ziegler works are featured at GRAFF in New York and Hong Kong, Tiffany’s in New York and Monaco. Twenty First Gallery will have an exhibition of her work in Fall 2023 and there will be an outdoor installation for the Matta Archives Foundation in Italy in 2024.