Jules Lobgeois’s work is shaped by a guiding idea: art applied to life. After studying industrial design and approaching the question of function with rigor, he turned his attention to applying that training to traditional craft techniques. He apprenticed with a metalworker, then with wood sculptor Kaspar Hamacher, discovering a deep affinity for both materials and deciding to create objects that bring them together. The organic nature of wood—rigid enough to hold the sculptor’s taut lines—meets metal, fixed in place through a poetic union. The strength of his pieces lies in the interplay of volumes he carefully reveals: protruding muscles or futuristic curves, whose lines give as much to light as they do to shadow. The essence of his work is also found in what remains invisible—an homage to raw material and its untamed presence. More than a creative process, this is a way of life—a stance consciously taken by Jules : that of the sculptor-farmer, working in direct contact with the living world.