Ymer&Malta, the heritage of tomorrow
Ymer&Malta offers rare and poetic pieces, inspired by nature, recognized as milestones in the history of French furniture and decorative arts.
«Taking her time : this is one of Valérie’s essential requirements. It translates her radical choice of refusing shortcuts or any tricks in her search for perfection.» Franck Riester, French Minister of Culture, about the work of Valérie Maltaverne.
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Like the film producer she was in another life, Valérie Maltaverne orchestrates the creation of exceptional design pieces, from their conception to their realization.
She surrounds herself with talented designers and artisans with whom she engages in a long and intense dialogue. Achieving perfection regardless of the time it takes, commercial constraints, current trends, such is the unique working method of the Ymer&Malta studio.
Ymer&Malta uses the ancestral knowledge while pushing them to their technical and aesthetic limits in order to enrich the French heritage of Decorative Arts.
Nature is at the creative heart of Ymer&Malta: a carpet of lichen, a tree, a shore, a fold of rock, a ray of light…
Each collection includes pieces edited in 5, 8 or 12 copies, for collectors and lovers of the most demanding know-how or for public institutions.
Of the 100 pieces produced by Ymer&Malta over the past decade, 60 have been exhibited by museums and 20 have been acquired as part of their permanent collections.
The Fallen Tree bench is part of the permanent collection of the Center Pompidou – National Museum of Modern Art. The ikebanaMedulla sculpture vase, the Stripes shelf and the cloudInChest sideboard were acquired by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
The latest project to date, the historic Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie d’Aubusson has called on Ymer&Malta to renovate the woven art. After five years of work, the “La Tapisserie d’Aubusson: The Great Lady” collection is born and the first copy of each of the 7 pieces becomes part of the Museum’s permanent collection.
