GARNITURE VOL. 2
Exhibition
Exhibition
Cordon Salon’s Garniture began with armour.
Not the mythology of knights and heroics, but the intelligence embedded in the objects themselves: folded steel, articulated plates, edges curled like fabric but fixed into permanence.
Through close study of late Western European armour, designer Ella Saddington began isolating the gestures that make these objects work, how plates meet, how edges stiffen and flare, how surfaces catch and deflect light.
In Garniture, those gestures are removed from the body and placed into the room.
What once protected now illuminates.
For this second series, the vocabulary expands. A chandelier introduces a more assertive spatial presence, while new lamps experiment with leather, strange, glossy skins set against the cold precision of steel. The materials begin to behave almost like armour and flesh: rigid and supple, held in quiet negotiation.
The objects remain controlled, even restrained. Curved plates overlap. Edges ripple. Surfaces return the room back to itself.
Garniture is not historical reconstruction. It is a translation, a contemporary language built from techniques once belonging to armourers, now redirected toward light.