A light sculpture by Nathalie Ryan & Maison Carvay

Paris-based interior architect and designer Nathalie Ryan unveils Velonna Flora, a sculptural pendant light crafted in silk and velvet. This creation was born of a creative dialogue between Nathalie Ryan and Maison Carvay, the Paris atelier renowned for its couture-crafted lampshades and textile light forms. The Velonna Flora lamp embodies the seamless fusion of the mastery of the hand and vegetal artistry. A quiet moment of light suspended in space.

A Sculptural Velvet and Silk Pendant light

Velonna Flora features silk-velvet from Maison Dedar, with supple forest-green and burnt-orange petals outlined with a Samuel & Sons gold trim. The core, a pleated delicate gold and cream silk lining casts a warm amber glow, reminiscent of a blossoming corolla heart.

Presented for the first time in Maison Carvay’s showroom, the piece merges couture techniques, refined materials, and a nature-inspired sensibility, a moment of light held in space, where handcrafted textiles unfurl like a flower. Softness, shadow, and light are playing together.

Velonna Flora — The Light of an Inverted Dream

“Velonna Flora was born from a quiet desire, to express through light what words leave unspoken: softness, intimacy, and elegance suspended in time.” - Nathalie Ryan

In a quiet room, where late afternoon softens the edges of all things, a light appears to hover above a table. It isn’t quite a lamp, nor a flower, but a soft apparition of both. The velvet petals, green as the forests of her dream, seem to gently breathe. Within, an amber glow carries the warmth of memory, something between dusk and childhood.

The moment feels slightly surreal, touched by that threshold where the world tilts just enough to suggest a whisper of wonderland.

“More than light, Velonna Flora offers an atmosphere, a presence, and an invitation to pause.”

The fruit of a long-awaited reunion

Velonna Flora also marks a renewed creative dialogue between Nathalie Ryan and Renald Plessis, founder of Maison Carvay. One afternoon, while walking through Paris, Nathalie stepped into Carvay’s new showroom by chance, unaware it had recently opened. The space, arranged like a small boudoir lined with Renald’s couture-crafted pieces, felt instantly familiar.

In the quiet intimacy of Renald’s cabinet of curiosities, their friendship and creative complicity rekindled naturally.

Velonna Flora evokes velvet, femininity, and softness ; the quiet presence of an imaginary muse, with the intuitive, organic strength that Nathalie seeks to express in her work. A rare, soft, and quietly bold piece, this light sculpture gives form to emotions and offers a calming glow that recalls the precious art of taking time to live.