Vincent Sahuc creates ceramic lighting sculptures and murals that explore the meeting point of architecture, craft, and reverie. Born in Firminy, France, home to Le Corbusier’s largest architectural ensemble in Europe, he developed an early sensitivity to volume, proportion, and the way light transforms built space.
After years working in luxury fashion across Europe and Asia, Sahuc cultivated a precise eye for texture, silhouette, and atmosphere. In parallel, he pursued architecture and interior design through drawing and renovation projects, including the transformation of 1970s homes on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. These experiences shaped his understanding of objects not as decoration, but as presences within a living space.
Since intensifying his ceramic practice in 2022, Sahuc has developed a body of work that brings together clay, fire, shadow, and illumination. His lighting sculptures are hand-built forms that occupy a space between functional object and contemplative artwork. Influenced by traditional smoke wood-firing techniques studied in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, and by residencies in French ceramic ateliers, his surfaces carry traces of process, accident, and elemental transformation.
Now based in the historic Atelier Kaeppelin in Le Puy-en-Velay, Sahuc continues to create works that give new life to architectural memory. His pieces invite quiet attention: they do not simply light a room, but alter its atmosphere.