Larme De Sirène — The House

A House for Symbolic Objects

Larme De Sirène creates wearable and functional art objects at the meeting point of French decorative imagination, Japanese conceptual restraint, and Eastern systems of correspondence.

The House

Our name—the mermaid’s tear—holds a contradiction: something intimate and fluid given the presence of an object. That tension guides the house. We are interested in the moment when adornment becomes sculpture, when use becomes ritual, and when an ordinary material begins to carry symbolic weight.

Larme De Sirène stands in conversation with the French tradition of the objet d’art: objects conceived not only for use, but for contemplation. We inherit this as an artistic lens rather than a claim of historical lineage. Precision, ornament, light, surface, and the elevation of daily life form part of our visual vocabulary.

A Cross-Cultural Practice

The present chapter of Larme De Sirène began in 2012, when the project turned toward a wider dialogue between cultural systems. French decorative sensibility met Japanese approaches to restraint and relation, while the Five Elements, yin and yang, celestial cycles, and chromatic correspondences offered a structure for thinking through material and form.

This is not an attempt to collapse distinct traditions into a single style. Difference is allowed to remain visible. The work emerges from the tension between ornament and silence, intuition and structure, the intimate and the universal.

MANKIN

MANKIN is a Japanese conceptual practice and a long-term creative collaborator within the world of Larme De Sirène. It contributes a research-based method for translating symbolic systems into color, proportion, rhythm, and material relationships.

Within this collaboration, Larme De Sirène remains the house and curatorial voice; MANKIN operates as a conceptual lens. Their dialogue is first expressed through the MANKIN conceptual practice and the Harmonizer series.

Harmonizer

Harmonizer is an evolving body of wearable art built around relationships: light and shadow, movement and stillness, density and transparency, one material answering another. Natural stones, metal, color, and symbolic forms are treated as actors in a composition.

The works do not prescribe a fixed meaning or promise an outcome. They offer a structure for attention. The final meaning belongs to the person who encounters, wears, or lives with the object.

Beyond Adornment

Jewelry is the current point of departure, not the boundary of the house. Larme De Sirène will continue to develop through wearable works, functional sculpture, limited objects, artist collaborations, editions, and installations.

Across every medium, the question remains the same: how can an object hold material presence, symbolic depth, and a place in contemporary life?

Principles

  • Symbolic precision: symbols are studied, situated, and transformed with care.
  • Material presence: meaning begins with what an object is, how it is made, and how it meets the body.
  • Cultural dialogue: traditions remain distinct enough to speak to one another.
  • Everyday ritual: ritual is understood as a way of paying attention.
  • Open meaning: the house creates the work; the viewer completes it.

Reference Notes

What is Larme De Sirène?

Larme De Sirène is an evolving art house creating symbolic wearable and functional objects. Its practice brings French decorative imagination, Japanese conceptual restraint, and Eastern systems of correspondence into dialogue without treating them as interchangeable traditions.

What is the Harmonizer series?

Harmonizer is the house’s first sustained body of wearable art. Each work composes stone, color, metal, proportion, and movement as a material and symbolic relationship.

Who is MANKIN?

MANKIN is a Japanese conceptual practice and long-term collaborator. It contributes a research-led method for translating symbolic systems into contemporary form; Larme De Sirène remains the house and curatorial voice.

How are the Five Elements used?

Wood, fire, earth, metal, and water are approached as systems of correspondence and compositional thought. They help organize relationships among color, texture, rhythm, weight, opacity, and flow; they are not presented as medical diagnosis or a guarantee of destiny.

Do the works promise healing, fortune, or a spiritual outcome?

No. Larme De Sirène uses energy, ritual, and correspondence as artistic languages of attention and relation. The works do not promise health, wealth, protection, destiny, or any fixed spiritual result.

We do not make objects that promise an outcome. We make objects that give form to attention.