French luxurious lighting editor Ozone and Dominique Perrault Structure have been neighbours for years. Really neighbours – Ozone’s workplaces actually overlook the roof of Perrault’s studio in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement.
However they didn’t comprehend it till a mutual buddy launched them two years in the past they usually determined to collaborate. Etienne Gounot and Eric Jähnke, Ozone’s co-founders, had lengthy admired the desk lamp that Perrault’s agency designed for the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand within the Nineteen Nineties. Fabricated from aluminium, it’s a deceptively simple-looking construction of proper angles and flat, intersecting planes.
Gounot remembers, ‘We very a lot favored the geometry, which is each sturdy and useful. After we met Dominique and Gaëlle [Lauriot-Prévost, Perrault’s personal and professional partner], we thought, why don’t we begin with that? We proposed it, they usually stated, bingo.’
Ozone and Dominique Perrault: the ‘Furtiv’ assortment
(Picture credit score: Giorgio Marafioti, Courtesy Ozone)
A desk lamp was the primary object they designed for the brand new assortment, known as ‘Furtiv’. Gounot says, ‘We used the identical proportions as the unique, which is a bit greater than you’re used to seeing. This outsized facet provides it a monumental really feel that happy us – it’s actually an object.’
And a heavy one, too, crafted in strong aluminium, apart from a slim tube hidden inside for the twine. ‘The burden lends it the Aristocracy,’ says Lauriot-Prévost, giving the lamp a delicate push to point out that it additionally offers stability, regardless of the cantilevered form.
Having designed quite a lot of high-end industrial lamps, the architect was impressed by Ozone’s manufacturing expertise. The corporate (which edits designs by the likes of Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Glenn Sestig) has an onsite workshop and collaborates with extremely specialised artisans round Paris. Their cautious consideration to element consists of completely flush joints which can be by no means soldered.
(Picture credit score: Giorgio Marafioti, Courtesy Ozone)
Along with the desk lamp, ‘Furtiv’ comes as a standing lamp barely taller than the arm of a settee, a ceiling mild in two completely different heights, and a wall sconce. Every mannequin is on the market in a selection of two finishes: shiny mirrored or brushed aluminium.
The gathering’s identify refers back to the method the lamp appears to fade, notably when the sunshine bounces off the varied mirrored surfaces. ‘It’s wonderful the way it displays its setting,’ says Lauriot-Prévost. ‘Wherever you set it, the design disappears. So it really works in a really up to date setting, and in traditional buildings, too.’
(Picture credit score: Giorgio Marafioti, Courtesy Ozone)
It’s additionally sensible. Mild filters via a laminated sheet of textured handmade paper, and a tiny button built-in into one facet of the lamp adjusts the LED bulb from barely-there to reader-friendly. Lauriot-Prévost demonstrates which you could lay a e book on prime of the standing lamp, like a desk, or place it upright towards the oblong physique of the desk lamp. ‘It’s not a sacred object,’ she says. ‘It’s meant for use.’
‘Furtiv’ is on show in Paris at Galerie Downtown/François Laffanour, and obtainable from ozonelight.com
Galerie Downtown/François Laffanour
18 Rue de Seine,
75006 Paris
(Picture credit score: Giorgio Marafioti, Courtesy Ozone)
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