Thierry Dreyfus started working in stage lighting in the late 1980s for the Strasbourg Opera. His lighting installations and designs have gained worldwide recognition and imprinted the identity of the most prestigious fashion catwalks (Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, Marni, Jil Sander), music stages (Sonic Youth, Phoenix, Liquid Architecture, Placebo), Operas (Paris, Instanbul) and monumental buildings (François Mitterrand National Library in Paris). He created world headlines in 2005 when he won an international competition to create the artistic design for the highly-anticipated re-opening of Paris' Grand Palais. This celebration attracted 500 000 visitors to experience Thierry Dreyfus' strikingly innovative lighting of the building's magnificent glass and steel cupola. Thierry Dreyfus tell stories with lights. He turns this intangible skin into a form of inspiration and desire, a vibrant body that becomes a mirror onto which you can project yourself, a volume, a space on its own. Each of his installations is thought to create a specific perception of a place and its environment. He sets up interactive playgrounds where light becomes a medium for dialogue between the architecture and the viewer. Thierry Dreyfus creates fields of experience or visual landmarks as guides to drive your eyes and enlighten vision. “It was clear that I should work on an installation in China”, Thierry Dreyfus told LifeStyle. “For Le Royal Meridien Shanghai, I have thought about red, not only for the symbolism of that colour in China, but also in relation to the concept of a beating heart on the top of the tower. Thus, this pulse, like a breath, hanging over the whole old city, is “bothered” by the greetings of each of the crossing beams. They greet the new city, the old city, then the sky : five lights beams in total; five, the number of the Power.” Pierre-Yves Baudry - LifeStyle China - May 2006