L'Objet

Many L'Objet pieces begin with a story gathered on the road. Founder and creative director Elad Yifrach built the house around objects with a sense of myth and memory: its emblem is the Greek amphora, and its collections borrow from ancient treasures, desert landscapes and old-world textiles, then refine those ideas for the way people gather at the table today.

From Interior Design to a House of Objects

Yifrach began his career as an interior designer, and he often found that the decorative objects he wanted for his clients did not exist. In 2005 he founded L'Objet to make them himself. Its first dinnerware collection, Aegean, arrived in 2007, and it remains the house's longest-running pattern.

That same year brought the first L'Objet candle, a bisque porcelain vessel decorated with hand-painted coral and 24-carat gold. It was an early sign of the house's habit of treating even a candle as a small sculpture. Over two decades the studio has grown from tableware into decor, desk accessories, hand-cut glassware and home fragrance, while keeping a consistent vocabulary of porcelain, bisque, brass and precious-metal detail.

The Signature Patterns

Aegean takes its name from the Greek word for waves and reimagines a classic Greco-Roman motif for contemporary tables, in white, gold or platinum. Perlée is a tribute to the pearl, with delicate details painted by hand in gold, platinum or cobalt blue on luminous white porcelain.

Soie Tressée, French for "silk braid," gives an ancient shape a modern edge; its braids are left white or hand-gilded in gold, platinum or black. Malachite, introduced in 2012 and still one of the house's best sellers, brings the dramatic green of the stone to porcelain and earthenware finished with hand-gilded gold.

For a quieter, more organic table, Terra dinnerware is glazed in finishes named for stone, iron, wine, leather and seafoam, each carrying the small irregularities of the material that inspired it. Corde, patterned after old silk cords, and the scale-like border of Aegean Filet round out a family of designs meant to be combined.

Conversations With Artists

Collaboration has shaped L'Objet since 2011, when the house introduced its first partnership, with Fortuny, which was also Fortuny's first collaboration with any brand. L'Objet pour Fortuny takes its spirit from Mariano Fortuny, the fashion and textile designer, drawing on the Venetian artistic heritage behind his name. A second Fortuny chapter followed in 2025.

The Haas Brothers collection, created with twin artists Simon and Nikolai Haas, began as 65 pieces of what the house calls functional art: characterful creatures with the polish of fine tableware. Its Mojave dinnerware carries an organic pattern that recalls desert pebbles and the endless stars of a desert sky.

Jewelry designer Lito Karakostanoglou brought her signature eye, a talisman of good luck and protection, to plates, bookends and desk pieces. For the house's twentieth anniversary in 2025, artist Ruan Hoffmann added witty painted earthenware plates, bowls and candles. Most recently, jeweler Jessica McCormack translated the shells, spirals and twisted cords of her ocean-inspired jewelry into L'Objet x Jessica McCormack, a collection of bisque porcelain with hand-gilded 24K gold.

Setting the Table

L'Objet patterns are designed to be layered rather than matched. The house's own tablescapes pair Aegean in gold with the deep blue of Lapis, set Corde beside Perlée, or combine Terra glazes with soft linen in earthy tones. A practical way to begin is with a set of service plates in one pattern, then build dinner and dessert plates in a second design that shares the same metal, gold or platinum, so the table reads as one composition.

The fragrance side of the house extends the table into the room. Scented candles in porcelain and bisque vessels, incense and diffusers are made with the same attention to finish as the dinnerware, and an emptied candle vessel can live on as a catchall on a desk or vanity. The desk collections, from crocodile-textured accessories to serpent motifs in gold and platinum, make thoughtful gifts for a host or a new home.

Hand-gilded and hand-painted details reward gentle care. Washing gilded pieces by hand with a soft sponge, drying them promptly and stacking plates with a soft separator helps the gold and platinum keep their glow for years of entertaining.

Elad Yifrach founded L'Objet in 2005, and the first L'Objet candle followed in 2007. Shop L'Objet picture frames, L'Objet candles and L'Objet dinnerware.