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French-born, New York–based Sébastien Léon is a pluridisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, collectible furniture, glass, sound, and immersive environments. His work constructs worlds — objects and experiences shaped by instinct, illusion, and material transformation — that question our sense of reality.

Rooted in a lineage of craft and magic, his practice embraces experimentation across disciplines while allowing process to lead form. Léon works intuitively, letting materials, sound, and gesture reveal their own logic. His creations are not meant to be explained, but encountered, offering a doorway into a singular, evolving universe.

French-born and New York–based, Sébastien Léon Agneessens is a pluri-disciplinary artist whose practice pushes design into the worlds of experimentation and illusion.

Known for his sculptural furniture, glass manipulation, and sonic sculptures, Léon creates pieces that feel at once primeval and futuristic, functional and magical — tables that appear to hover, tubular assemblages that speak, mirror surfaces that turn transparent, resin chairs carrying the texture of leather. Through his touch, every object is conceived as both a functional design and a work of magic.

Léon approaches creation as a practice of perpetual invention. Glass is silvered, marbled, or deformed until it transcends its material logic; welded chains coil with serpentine tension; fiberglass becomes inscribed with cryptic alphabets. Increasingly, sound, rhythm, and vibration operate as parallel materials, extending his work beyond the visual into the sensory and experiential.

Born in Blois, France, the hometown of Robert-Houdin — the father of modern magic, and the final residence of Leonardo da Vinci — Léon’s work carries this lineage of illusion and invention. Each creation operates as an act of revelation: an object that reveals itself through transformation.

Working instinctively and without attachment to medium, Léon allows process to guide outcome, letting the work reveal its own logic rather than imposing meaning upon it. This approach, often likened to a Jungian creative process, positions his practice as a form of exploration attuned to the air du temps, capturing gestures and atmospheres before they fully emerge.

Léon received an MBA from Bocconi (Milan), and started his career by pioneering the movement of curating contemporary art for brands through his agency Formavision. Today, Léon is based between New York and Los Angeles. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Surface, ID, Corriere della Sera, and NHK Japan. Léon is the recipient of the 2019 Fashion Group International Rising Star Award and the 2024 Galerie Magazine Creative Mind Award. He shows his design work with Ralph Pucci International.