Studio Chair - 2011

This series originates from a body of paintings destroyed in the 2014 five‑alarm fire that consumed Franck de las Mercedes’ home and studio. The space where these works were created and where the artist himself once stood, painted, experimented, and lived among them. Nothing was recovered. A decade later, Franck reopened his photographic archive and began the painstaking process of reviving each documented piece through careful upscaling, color correction, and digital reconstruction. What emerges is a collection that carries the physical and emotional imprint of that lost studio: concrete‑like textures, weathered chromatic surfaces, and gestural floral movements that feel both spontaneous and architectural. Saturated hues collide with raw, tactile passages, producing compositions charged with motion, memory, and the lingering presence of the artist in the space where they were first born. The series amplifies FdlM’s signature dynamism bursts of color, drips, angular strokes, and floral echoes rising like resilient blooms through urban grit. Each work becomes both a reconstruction and a commemoration: a tribute to the studio that burned, the paintings that vanished, and the creative force that persisted. Ideal for corporate, hospitality, and real‑estate environments, the collection offers visually electric, emotionally resonant works enriched by a narrative of loss, renewal, and artistic endurance.