With a mechanical rigor -- he loves looking at his intricate plans and diagrams for shows, stores and exhibitions, though he admits that few other people share his enthusiasm -- Dreyfus found a natural calling when it came to creating his own "elements of light." Dreyfus' terminology is specific, lest anyone have a slip of the tongue: "I don't want to say lamps -- I'm fed up of lamps!"
These "elements of light," which explore the diffusion of light through salt, were exhibited in Colette in January and are currently for sale at the Black Block, the store in Paris' modern art museum and exhibition-space, the Palais de Tokyo.
Dreyfus works passionately in a medium few people fully comprehend or even refer to. While he states honestly "I wouldn't have believed I could have made the jump to product design," one senses that the commercial aspect of what he does is of only a certain interest to him. Waxing lyrical about personal heroes such as Gerhard Richter, Bill Viola, James Turrell and Dan Flavin, Dreyfus seems to be someone for whom the constant challenge, opportunity to learn, and chance to touch somebody's life, however slightly, is all the reward he needs.