Atelier · Art & Star

Atelier

Behind every work of the House lies a workshop — and a hand that has spent a lifetime giving faces their light. You are invited in.

The atelier — wide photograph of the workshop, to be curated

Where the House begins

Or & Kavod presents. Art & Star makes.

Every sculpture the House offers is born in a single workshop — Art & Star, the atelier of François. Here, a photograph becomes a face, aluminium becomes a likeness, and light becomes presence.

The House carries these works to the world. The atelier gives them their soul. What you are about to see is not a brand — it is a craft, built quietly over many years.

A lifetime of facesThe journey of the hand

Early work — photograph

The beginning

A self-taught hand

No school, no master — only an obsession with the human face and the patience to chase it in metal, year after year, until the likeness held.

Icon work — photograph

The recognition

The faces the world knows

In time, the atelier was asked to honor the icons of an era — athletes, artists, statesmen — and presented its work to figures and institutions across the world.

Private commission — photograph

The intimate

The people we love

And just as often, a quieter request: a father, a teacher, someone missed. The same devotion given to a champion, offered now to one family alone.

Today — photograph

Today

Into the light

Now this body of work reaches the world through Or & Kavod — the House built to reveal, honor and carry forward what the atelier has made.

How the light is madeFrom a photograph to a presence

Process I

The face

From a photograph, the true likeness is found — the expression that is the person.

Process II

The aluminium

Sculpted and brushed by hand, until the metal holds the face and catches light.

Process III

III

The light

An LED is given a life within the work — a glow made to last a lifetime.

Process IV

The socle

Set upon solid, lacquered wood — the ground on which the presence stands.

The materialsWhat a work is made of

Aluminium

The face

Sculpted, brushed, sublimated by light.

LED

The light

An inner glow, a lifetime of presence.

Solid wood

The socle

White-lacquered, vitrified, hand-finished.

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Two formats

Grand or intimate, in centimetres.

A portrait should not simply hang on a wall. It should hold its own light — and return a presence to the room.

The belief of the atelier

The work already made

Over the years, the atelier has kept the light of many faces.

Photograph slot

Lionel Messi · Cristiano Ronaldo · Zinédine Zidane · Xavi · Tito Vilanova · Michael Jackson · Steve Jobs · Gal Gadot · José Fernández · FC Barcelona · and many private commissions

Provenance · shown with respect for image rights

Portrait of the artist — to be curated

The hand

François

Sculptor · Art & Star

A self-taught sculptor who has devoted his life to a single art: capturing the truth of a face in aluminium, and giving it light. His work has honored figures known the world over and travelled, just as often, to the intimacy of a family home.

He has presented his sculptures to FC Barcelona and met the players who inspired them. Yet he remains, by choice, quietly behind the work — for the atelier has always believed the light belongs to the person honored, not to the hand that made it.

Every light begins here.

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