Nathalie Lete was born in 1964. She lives and works in Paris. She works in many ways, mixing different techniques and mediums, illustration, ceramics, textile and painting... She is inspired by her travels, but also by the mixing of vintage toys and old engravings of flowers and animals. Her work is colourful, naive and poetic, sometimes strange, to the point of tending towards art brut. Her world is nurtured by popular and folk art from her both origins (her chinese father and her german mother). She produces children’s and graphic’s books, knitted and stuffed toys, glass pictures, patterned dishes, but also postcards, ceramic sculptures, silkscreen printed t-shirts, rugs and jewels in limited edition... both for herself and for commissions.
Nathalie at 5 years old | From 1987 to 1997Works in team "MATHIAS & NATHALIE" Photo credit : Joachim Magrean | Since 2000Commission of DM cards for Usagi pour toi Japan |
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Paris 2005Paris Plage | Paris 2006Installation of a bedroom at BONTON | 2006Print for Pleats Please Issey Miyake |
2006Print for Pleats Please Issey Miyake | 2006Print for Pleats Please Issey Miyake | New York 2006Exhibition at John Derian |
New York 2006Exhibition at John Derian | New York 2006Exhibition at John Derian | From 2006 to 2012Collaboration with La Marelle Editions |
From 2006 to 2012Collaboration with La Marelle Editions | From 2006 to 2012Collaboration with La Marelle Editions | Paris 2007Window at Bonton |
london 2007Exhibition at Designers Guild | Since 2006Collaboration with Muchacha (Japan) | Since 2006Collaboration with Muchacha (Japan) |
Paris 2009Installation at Merci | Paris 2009Installation at Merci | Paris 2009Window "little red riding hood" at Bonton |
Since 2009Collaboration with Blue Illusion Australia | 2010Design of make up packaging "Rendez Vous à Paris" for Bourjois | New York April 2010Window Anthropologie 5th avenue |
September 2010Collection for Monoprix | Paris October 2012Window display at Astier De Villatte | Paris October 2012Window display at Astier De Villatte |
July 2013Exhibition in LOTTE GALLERY Séoul - South Koréa" | February 2014Collaboration with Godiva for Valentine's day | Paris, October 2014Show at ASTIER DE VILLATTE |
Dordrecht, October 2014Show at VILLA AUGUSTUS | Berlin, May 2014Show at KÜHN KERAMIK | Spring 2015Packaging for MEERT |
Spring 2015UT Tshirts collection for UNIQLO | 21 March –21 June 2015Exhibition "Mes Petite Histoires" at MUSEE DE LA PISCINE Roubaix France | Boston, November 2015Show "rendez vous avec deux gentlemen" at Patch NYC |
Paris, November 2015Advent Calender "A la mère de famille" | Valentine's day 2016collaboration with HACCI,Japan | Japan, Christmas 2015PARCO |
Japan, Christmas 2015PARCO | Japan - 2016Private commission ,hand painted kimono | Japan - 2016Private commission ,hand painted kimono |
Tokyo - Japan - fall 2016Exhibition by HP-Deco | Seoul - March November 2016Exhibitions by "Lotte Gallery" in Seoul,Busan,Gwangju,Dajeon | Taipei, Taiwan - 2016Cafe jardin de Nathalie - Pop up event from October 16 to February 17 |
2016Collaboration with Peacock Parfumerie - perfumed candles & wax curiosities | Noël 2017Collaboration avec la maison Fragonard |