ARGOS 06 BENCH BY MARTIN MASSÉ

The Argos collection by Martin Massé takes its name from the master craftsman of Greek mythology, builder of the Argo, the legendary vessel aboard which Jason and the Argonauts set sail in pursuit of the Golden Fleece. A figure of ingenuity, elemental mastery, and the poetry of departure, Argos becomes here not merely a reference but a founding myth: an invitation to reimagine furniture as floating architecture, as object-vessel, as the silent relic of an imaginary voyage

Composed of seven distinct pieces—desk, coffee table, dining table, stool, side table, and console—the collection constructs a furniture landscape drawn from the visual and sensory world of the sea. Taut lines and sculpted volumes evoke the silhouette of hulls cutting through water; one table becomes a majestic prow ready to cleave the swell, while cylindrical forms elsewhere recall the solid geometry of mooring bollards. Toothed cut-outs suggest pulleys, gears, or fragments of naval architecture, the anonymous hardware of harbors and dockyards translated into a refined sculptural language

Each piece appears animated by a sense of latent movement. Curves undulate like a calm sea; volumes roll, glide, and interlock with an ease that belies their mass. The works seem suspended in a moment of drift or shift, caught between stability and motion, between the anchored and the adrift. This tension, between weight and weightlessness, between the monumental and the fluid, gives the collection its defining sculptural charge

Rather than representing the maritime world literally, Argos translates its sensations: sliding, oscillation, propulsion, the anticipation of departure. The monochrome surfaces reinforce this abstraction, stripping the silhouettes of distraction and revealing a minimalist language in which every curve appears guided by the logic of water. Form follows current. Structure follows tide

Rendered in blue-stained oak, Azul Macaubas quartzite, and Rosal limestone, each material deepens the dialogue between the terrestrial and the oceanic, the warmth of wood against the cool luminosity of stone, the geological against the elemental. Entirely handcrafted in France in close collaboration with master cabinetmakers and stonecutters at Ateliers Saint-Jacques Foundation, the Argos collection is produced as a limited numbered and signed edition, affirming Massé’s capacity to transform mythological reference into objects of sculptural clarity, poised between design and narrative, between the functional and the imaginary