Bouti Studio translates a dawn ascent of Adam’s Peak into faience lighting

Temple turns the inward atmosphere of Sri Lankan temples and a dawn ascent of Adam’s Peak into a family of architectural faience lights, balancing restrained silhouettes with details that emerge through illumination and close observation.

For the Temple Collection, designer Clément Boutillon draws on a journey through Sri Lanka, where temple interiors and their atmosphere of inwardness were followed by the long climb to Adam’s Peak. Reached after roughly 5,000 steps, the summit gathers visitors at dawn to watch the sunrise and ring the bell installed there. Rather than reproduce those references literally, Boutillon reduces the memory of the experience into mass, profile, aperture and light.

The collection is deliberately economical in form. Its pieces first register as simple volumes, then become more complex as changing viewpoints reveal subtle shifts between profiles and surfaces. The pendant, portable lamp and wall light share a related geometry that suggests a revolution without resolving into a perfectly rotational object. Light is treated as another material, exposing the irregularity and depth of the ceramic surface.

The table lamp is the collection’s most sculptural element. Four panels flow into one another to form a grounded dome. Openings direct a veil of light across its walls, making the object appear more organic when illuminated than when read simply as an unlit volume.

Every piece is made in faience in the studio using techniques developed by Bouti Studio. The production process reinforces the collection’s tension between controlled architectural geometry and the material qualities of fired clay, allowing small variations and surface effects to remain perceptible.

The portable lamp extends this material language into a more adaptable object. It hangs from a wooden peg, can double as a wall light and is adjustable in height. A solid-brass cable clamp and satin braided cable introduce precise tactile details against the faience body.

Across the collection, Temple avoids turning travel into decoration. The experience of ascent, gathering and dawn instead becomes a framework for thinking about interiority: objects whose apparent simplicity changes as light moves across their openings, profiles and ceramic surfaces.

Project Credits

Collection: Temple
Edition: Bouti Studio
Design: Clément Boutillon
Material: Faience
Photography: Bouti Studio, in-house
Press release: September 2026