Douglas Mont 'In The Air' 6 Chandelier by DCW Editions Paris, France. New, current production.A chandelier from spaceWith its UFO-like lights, the chandelier In the Air created by Douglas Mont, claims a place in this repertoire where retro-futuristic fantasy meets nostalgic science fiction. Watching and rewatching American comics or B-movie Hollywood films filled with flying saucers helps to gauge the impact of this luminous arsenal, operating in fleets of three or six aircraft. Luminous, biomorphic, resting without anchoring on metal circles, like some totemic lights of the Italian 1960s, In the Air positions itself in spatial equilibrium, profiled like a levitating, opalescent air station. Two weights, two measures depending on the number of lights, without altering its DNA and appearance.Inspired by the imagery Jodorowsky derived from the cult science fiction novel Dune, Douglas Mont is not American but indeed French. A distant great-uncle of his, G.L. Rispal, founded the Parisian firm Rispal in 1924, specializing in affordable lighting fixtures, which, after flourishing for decades and cataloging hundreds of references, turned off the lights in 1982.Douglas Mont reignited production in 2018 through a redesign of the bestsellers from the 1950s known as Formes Nouvelles, enhanced with his own contemporary creations. Specializing in modular design in the form of evolving luminous sculptures for outdoor use, based between Auvergne and the Côte d’Azur, and always keeping a foothold in Paris, Douglas Mont marks his first collaboration with DCWéditions with In the Air.