It all started with a plant stake

Not in a design lab, not in a big factory. In a garage, in Provence, with a plant that needed a simple stake to stand upright.

While tinkering with a clip system to hold a wooden rod, an obvious idea emerged: what if these clips could hold much more than just a plant? What if anyone could, with the same simple gestures, build an entire object?

Four years searching for the right alchemy

From this question, an obsession was born: to find the perfect mechanism. A clip strong enough to hold a structure, simple enough to assemble without tools, and beautiful enough to never need to be hidden.

Four years of trials, failed prototypes, and small victories followed. Wood was the first obvious choice — warm, alive, easy to work with — and beech stood out for its strength and consistency. The clips, meanwhile, went through dozens of versions before finding their definitive form, now protected by a patent.

One question remained: which object would best convey this freedom to build? The answer came naturally — a lamp. Because a lamp is both functional, decorative, and personal enough that everyone would want to put a little bit of themselves into it.

A workshop between craftsmanship and industry

Fabric & Clips was born from this meeting between artisanal gesture and industrial precision. Every beech rod comes from FSC certified forests. Every clip is made from recycled plastic. And every lamp is designed, assembled, and controlled in our workshop, in Provence.

This demanding approach gave birth to a small family of lamps, all stemming from the same modular system:

• Moodu, the lamp to invent — total freedom, no imposed model.
• Silva, the lamp to build — a pre-designed model, to be assembled in minutes.
• Haika, the lamp with a retro bulb — for a warm light and an instantly decorative object.

The only lamp you invent yourself

Today, what started as a plant stake has become an object that hundreds of people have shaped in their own image — on a desk, a bedside table, a shelf. Each assembled lamp is different from the last, because it bears the mark of the person who built it.

It is this promise that continues to guide us: to offer everyone the freedom to create a light that exists nowhere else.