Ecal X Helinox

ECAL collaborates with Korean brand Helinox to create a collection of lighting designs.

Collaboration (2026) with Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Julie Richoz

Assistants: Titouan Longatte, Damien Barman
Students: Damien Barman, Laura Cipriano, Benjamin Claus, Mélissa Da Silva Nicolet, Matheo Dusong, Damien Gabriel, Nicola Guet, Chloé Hamel, Violeta Kostadinova, Gabrielle Lefèvre, Zoé Letocque, Dona Levy, Gion Luginbühl, Thaïs Matty, Valentin Meghit, Jonas Meynet, Séraphin Monnard, Arthur Moreillon, Anouck Morlon, Arthur Németh, Leo Niksch, Léa Perrelet, Anouk Quillet, Romain Ricci, Aurélie Richard, Matthieu Rigelo, Archibald Simon, Clara Uzunovic, Mathilda Zubek
Partenaire: helinox.com
Know-how: soft goods / accessories, Furniture, Electronics, Textile

Focusing primarily on the tension between technical rigour and poetic simplicity, our approach was to design lights built around Helinox's own connectors and tensioned textiles, rather than creating conventional lamps.

ECAL - 2DI - HELINOX - Gut Nicola - Rayline - 01_1.jpg — Nicolas Gut - Rayline

ECAL - 2DI - Helinox - Levy Dona - Halo - 01_1.jpg — Dona Levy - Halo

ECAL - 2DI - Helinox Renaud Flavia_1.jpg — Flavia Renaud - Ring

ECAL – 2DI – Helinox – Claus Benjamin – Nénuphar - 02 _1.jpg — Benjamin Claus - Nénuphar

ECAL – 2DI – Helinox – Meynet Jonas – Presence_6_1.jpg — Jonas Meynet - Presence

ECAL – 2DI – Helinox – Myard Melchior – Softbox – 04_1.jpg — Melchior Myard - Softbox

Students explored and reinterpreted the brand’s distinctive vocabulary — aluminium poles, spring clips, hubs and technical fabrics — imagining how light could travel with us into the wild and back home again. Based on their research, they developed a range of typologies suited to camping and beyond.

The challenge the students set themselves was to reimagine the camp light, an object built for necessity, while giving it the presence and warmth of a true piece of lighting design.

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Le projet est présenté pour la première fois à l’occasion de la Paris Design Week 2026.

Paris Design Week 2026 / Images by Samuel Spreyz

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