Bruises Gallery and Lambert & Fils are proud to present "Bar Lanterne," an installation-bar to celebrate the launch of the ISLE collection, the latest from the Montreal-based lighting studio. The installation will take place at the lighting studio's gallery on Hutchison Street in Montreal from September 21st to October 13th, 2023.

The meeting of Bruises and Lambert & Fils offers a strong point of contrast between Bruises’ raw spirit versus Lambert & Fils’ precise design approach. The collaboration has been a long time in the works, and is drawn from the idea of collaborating on space as an object and experience.

For the occasion, Lambert & Fils invited Bruises to ‘hack’ their Montreal gallery space, with Bruises providing scenography and a selection of pieces and objects from their catalogue. Lambert & Fils’ approach to materiality, combined with Bruises’ eclectic vision, creates a new kind of ambience. Built predominantly from unique custom extrusions taken from the lighting studio’s proper material library, the scenography is punctuated by objects, sculptures, and furniture from the Bruises Gallery permanent collection. To mark the official commercial release, the bar highlights Lambert’s latest collection, ISLE, created in collaboration with Zoë Mowatt, which previewed earlier this year at New York Design Week.  

Montreal is at the heart of this installation that includes many local artists. For the event, Bruises will call upon Trevor Bourke’s blunt but striking oil paintings, which invoke mysticism and curiosity. Hand-blowing glass artisans, Verre d’Onge, will create a series of wine carafes made specifically for Lanterne. Guests will be treated to some of the best locally sourced beverages, from Lieux Communs’ natural wines, to beer from Wills, a new modern microbrewery  offering a variety of beer from their latest production.

The partnership follows the recent successes of Bruises at Frieze No.9 Cork street in London, and Lambert & Fils’ experiential events in Milan, New York, and Montreal. 

The Isle Collection

In continuation of their legacy of collaborations, Lambert & Fils has joined forces with Zoë Mowat for the creation of ISLE, a new collection launched during New York Design Week 2023. An ode to quiet strength, ISLE is a play both on illusion and perception, allowing lightness to anchor and foundations to rise. Composed of a delicate glass tube resting on solid-stone and aluminum pedestals, and suspended in mid-air like a surreal bridge, ISLE is minimal, but not simplistic.

ISLE holds a dreamlike quality, but it isn't merely decorative. Its system is simple, yet integrated, with even suspension wires being part of the form and design. The lamp remains polymorphous; it is as much a practical object as an object of the imagination. Created to light a room and reveal the life within it, ISLE was designed to function in spaces large or small. The collection offers various single fixture lengths, but it can also exist in an array of clusters. Offered in multiple options, the clusters occupy width as a linear composition, or height in the vertical assemblage of numerous modules.