Eric Schmitt, John Wigmore & Don Freeman

Eric Schmitt was born in 1955. In 1997, he left Paris to live and work at the edge of the Fontainebleau forest. In his workshop, pieces are created, designed and shaped and then entrusted to the best craftsmen in France. His creations are produced and signed in limited edition, a modern execution of the French decorative arts tradition. He joined RALPH PUCCI in 2006.

John Wigmore is a lighting designer and artist who cites natural materials, Minimalism, and the Light and Space movement of Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s as influences for his first light sculptures in 1993. He has continued to work with established architects and interior designers to build atmospheric light installations globally. His latest work is in ceramic, inspired by the clarity and restraint of Mexican Modernist Luis Barragan’s architecture, the sensitivity of Japanese tea bowls and Californian ceramic artists, which he captured in clay, Japanese paper shades and light. They are all hand-built, not slip-cast, rolled out individual slabs of clay that Wigmore pieces together almost architecturally. He lives and works in Los Angeles, where his lighting is made. He rejoined RALPH PUCCI in 2014.

Born in 1957 in Yokosuka, Japan and raised on Bainbridge Island, Washington, Don Freeman is an American photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in French and American Vogue, The World of Interiors, Architectural Digest and Martha Stewart Living. His fine art photography has been exhibited internationally and is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Getty Museum. Freeman is known for his poetic use of traditional black-and-white photography combined with hand manipulation, drawing and watercolor. Freeman’s film photographs are transformed through an intricate mixed-media process that integrates hand-coloring, watercolor studies, and scanned botanical pressings which are then digitally layered into unique compositions. The resulting works are printed on fabric and mounted on wood, merging photography with painting, collage, and contemporary digital techniques. He is based in upstate New York and joined RALPH PUCCI in 2026.