Ozzgallery
Press contact: RAC Frédéric Pellerin
6 rue Martel F-75010 Paris
Tel: 01 40 22 63 19 - Fax: 01 40 22 63 20
email: fpellerin@re-active.fr
Ozzgallery
Ozzgallery, eco-genesis
The Alchimie agency is specialised in futurology and works with a network of international experts* on urban lifestyles and the essential requirements for respecting nature. The desire for “eco-rare” has been identified in the forward-looking behaviour of ecologically aware urbanites.
The 10 locutions for eco-rare constructions are:
Having acknowledged this, managing director of Alchimie, Dominique Leguay, together with a group of expert friends, created an editing house to closely monitor this behaviour that will change our future: Ozzgallery was established with the task of making collective decisions, not only between associates/partners but also including all contributors to a given project: designer, manufacturer, graphic artist, distributor... because Ozzgallery believes that eco-rare cannot function without a strong spirit of collaboration or dedicated collaborationism.
* Network of international experts from a variety of fields - design, fashion, cosmetics, garden art, gastronomy, decoration, researchers, sociologists, consultants in sustainable development…
Ozzgallery Act I: designate rare-ecology as an official stance.
Ozzgallery ACT II: establish a charter
Ozzgallery, our charter
Emblematic eco-rare objects.
Ozzgallery, is a production and distribution house working exclusively with creative artists actively committed to eco-rare values. It is also an eco-rare space consultancy.
To create crafted objects, furniture and a wide range of works and architectural, woven or fashioned constructions that afford maximum traceability.
Working towards the collaborative construction of a living “green” heritage (and symbolic eco-rare artefacts).
It is a philosophy stemming from nature - the earth and planet – and thereby closely related to eco-design. It ensures total transparency concerning the origins of raw materials, processing, manufacturing, non-pollution, durability and information.
The reason-why: from the basic material to the craftsman, from the creator to the user.
Benevolent, radical and desirable, each product becomes a rare creation, the symbol of a set of values.
The creative statement:
A limited series of multi-productions.
Each “authored and approved” edition is numbered and signed by the charter with the commitment of the editing house, artist or craftsman, and carries the name or a customised message of the individual enthusiast. Each piece is considered as a gift, an offering to the person and to the planet.
Furniture is intended for both outdoor and indoor use - for lounging in the kitchen garden or in the living room.
Products are centred on daily life and suggest a tension in every sense - transgression, transversality and surprises.
Eco-design credentials are achieved by an array of artists and craftsmen: creativity becomes a search engine.
Project structure:
A free community of artists, craftsmen, (designers), financial partners, distributors, publicists and prescribers.
Distribution:
A permanent showroom is located in the “Alchimie F.L.A.T.”, 21 rue Saint Paul F-75004 PARIS.
Distributors are art galleries, top market/high-end or polyvalent international design brands and retailers, museum shops, local communities, spa towns, mountain and seaside resorts, hotel groups and chains, our favourite prescribers, landscape or interior designers, architects and urban planners, art enthusiasts and private collectors.
Ozzgallery ACT III: identify our first artist.
Frederic Ruyant was markedly chosen for the stands he takes when inventing new furniture typologies and resembling the archaic defence/protection of the/one’s shack/hut, as well as for his sense of luxury mingled with its most ultimate paradox, a monastic lifestyle. In collaboration with Ozzgallery, he has created complex yet modest furniture with an almost virgin quality. In a word, his furniture supplies energy for the future.
Prizes and awards
Ozzgallery, Frederic Ruyant
Ozzgallery ACT IV: set up/structure our first collection.
One of Alchimie’s strengths is unquestionably the interest Dominique Leguay and her expert friends have in design and their search engine role. The desire was to play a part both in towns and in nature, which corresponded to Frederic Ruyant’s approach, as observed in Urban Oasis. A collection of 3 eco-rare indoor-outdoor pieces of furniture was created and perfected throughout 2006 and 2007: the “Woods” Collection.
Ozzgallery loves cult objects and therefore commissioned Frederic Ruyant to design furniture he simply felt strongly about. The result was 0zz.1, a secret refuge that will be followed by other Ozz works.
The Woods collection, a set of “Extravagances” or indoor-outdoor surprises, is composed of three avant-garde works conceived as functional, multi-purpose units, because objects have a mind of their own, are alive and incite people to strike postures, to acquire infinitely individualised refinement/sophistication.
These works establish a green culture and heritage with the commitment to preserve the forest and as they made in Bourgogne by a master cabinetmaker - PECC* quality label - each piece of furniture is its own container and is sold as a kit in a case to be assembled as a piece of furniture, in the manner of a travel kit. It is intended for use in a vegetable garden, town house or living room, but also in luxury hotels, museums or transit lounges.
Each piece of furniture is numbered from 1 to 50 for registered traceability, and bears the name of its forest of origin, the eco-rare gallery’s signature, the artist or craftsman’s name, and a date; all pieces can be customised: inscribed with a message or the name of their new owner.
— Tête-à-tête with oneself: an armchair for children and adults, for secret conversations, with a sideboard to place personal objects, made of ash from the Chaux forest in the Doubs region.
PECC Eco-Label. Signed series numbered 1 to 50. € 6,500
— Reading cabinet: armchair/library devoted to reading, made of ash from the Chaux forest in the Doubs region. PECC Eco-Label. Signed series numbered 1 to 50. € 10,000
— Tea pavilion: roofless extravagance-cum-hut, a place to sit or lie down, alone or with the family, made of ash from the Chaux forest in the Doubs region.
PECC Eco-Label. Signed series numbered 1 to 50. € 12,000
Ozz.1
Ozz.1 A fourth special edition piece numbered from 1 to 999 was commissioned and is one of the gallery’s cult items.
Ozz.1 Beach or spa hut / secret refuge: personal shelter with multi-purpose chests.
Structure made of ash from the Chaux forest in Doubs, beech wood weaving. € 5,500
* The PECC - Pan European Certification Council-quality label
PECC certification guarantees that a product or service complies with the defined standards applied to global silviculture and forestry. This procedure verifies that each certified forest is managed in accordance with the rules and regulations established by professionals –forestry developers, sawyers... – and is thereby controlled by competent independent experts; that the raw materials collected respecting these conditions are identified at each stage of processing so that the consumer can select products originating from these certified forests.
This certification process implies:
- Respecting referential technical specifications;
- The intervention of independent certifying bodies accredited by COFRAC;
- The application of internationally accepted standards ISO 9000 for quality management and ISO 14000 for environmental management.
Ozzgallery, our collection
Frederic Ruyant’s intentions
Woods: furniture that is a genealogical part of the cycle of life, creating a link/relationship with pure, graceful, untouched nature.
This furniture is a source of energy and is designed and fashioned to help one recover inner unity and harmony, one’s original and unsullied state.
The different items were conceived based on a simple element: a plank of wood. Made of Bourgogne ash, this furniture remains perfectly natural and without any artifice. The collection is the fruit of the experimental and assembly laboratory’s living momentum, and inspired by an armchair unit, which is epitome of well-being in furniture. This first unit was continuously developed as one would nurture a tree, progressively turning into a tête-à-tête, a writing case and a raft.
The inventory of one’s heritage to chat, pray, write and escape with.
I hewed the wood, inspired by skin naked in the sun or rain, with a certain innocence.
My thoughts were full of “eco genesis”.
Ecology allows one to revive the notion of the passing of time: this furniture will remain alive and enable each person to become reconciled with the micro-cellular life/beat of one’s innermost sense of time.
That is why traceability and trust, from creation right through to use, are essential.
I invite people to live in harmony with their piece of furniture, whether reading alone in their vegetable garden or laughing together with friends in an urban lounge. It can move around and be used indoors or outdoors, displaying grandpa’s boxing gloves, that recycled table brought back from Africa, or favourite works of art, or simply stand in the heart of earth’s garden from which it originates.
Hence, being a piece of furniture is just a passing state: from original birth, from tree sap to natural living in an urban environment.
Frédéric Ruyant Design
7 rue de Beauce
F-75003 Paris
Tel: 01 40 27 81 56 - Fax: 01 40 27 81 59
email: frdesign@aol.com
Ozzgallery Act V: finding the appropriate craftsman.
For Ozzgallery, the aim was to find a craftsman sensitive to/aware of ecological concerns yet also able to approach an artist’s universe. The vital lead was Topos Environnement, a young company working in sustainable development for local communities. Patrick Brézé is a master cabinetmaker, an eco-designer, who each time we met further believed in Ozzgallery. This resulted in his joining us.
1990 Advanced Professional Certificate
1989 Preparation for the Master Diploma
1983 City and Guilds in cabinet making, Dijon
1997 – 1996 Foreman for the SCUPPO MUSSO atelier in Marseille
1996 – 1994 Course teacher for the CFA at the Rennes Guild in view of preparing young trainees for their City and Guilds in cabinet making
1995 – 1994 Cabinetmaker for STENITZ in Paris: restoration of wainscoting and 17th and 18th century furniture.
1994 – 1988 City and Guilds vocational training followed by post-apprenticeship touring of France (Compagnons du Devoir et du Tour de France).
2007 Furniture Fair in Paris and Milan for VIA and Inga SEMPE: “étagères double accès”,
Furniture Fair in Paris, “eco-design Bourgogne Wood” designed by Philippe Riehling,
VIA label for the “Néo Noé” chair designed by Philippe Riehling,
Exhibit in Frankfurt “The Design Annuel” for François Azambourg’s “chaise chêne bleue”.
2006 Regional exhibit in the Trois Pignons gallery on the theme “stars”, personal designs in Plywood,
2005 Furniture Fair for VIA in Milan for the François Azambourg carte blanche on an alveolar cellular/wasps’ nest panel.
2004 Furniture Fair for VIA in Milan for the François Azambourg on the alveolar cellular/wasps’ nest panel.
International Design Biennial in St Etienne: exhibit of personal works from the “Plywood” series.
2003 Exhibit at the Trois Pignons gallery of personal contemporary furniture works.
August 2002 Floriades in Amsterdam: a stand made using the abovementioned process.
2001 90 sculptures and other works for Dior designed by artist Daniel Baugeste for the exhibit “Dior by Baugeste” at the Maillol Museum, Paris,
When Touring France: Pierre Cardin, Jacques Chanel,…
For his company: France 3, Hennessy, Villa Noailles, Jean-Claude Pouyet, Christophe Alwright, Hubert Felix Tiefaine, Dior by Baugeste
For D & P: M. Crasset, Pillet, Bouroullec, Eddy Slimane, Azambourg, Jean-Marie Duthilleul…
For VIA: Inga Sempé, Azambourg, Philippe Riehling,…
8 rue des trois ponts
F-21370 Velars/Ouche
Tel/Fax: 03 80 33 26 80
Ozzgallery, ACT VI: dictate your desires…
21, rue Saint Paul F-75004 Paris
Tel: +33.1.40.30.18.48 Fax: +33.1.40.30.00.23
email: ozzgallery@hotmail.fr
Representative for Spain:
Serauno S.L.
C/ ramon y Cajal 16bjo 2
08012 Barcelone
Tel/Fax: +34.932.108.102
email: contact@serauno.e.telefonica.net
Tête-à-tête with oneself: an armchair for children and adults, for secret conversations, with a sideboard to place personal objects.
Woods collection, Ozzgallery Paris, 2007, made of ash from the Chaux forest in the Doubs region.
Signed series numbered 1 to 50.
PECC Eco-Label.
€ 6,500
Reading cabinet: armchair/library devoted to reading, made of ash from the Chaux forest in the Doubs region.
Woods collection, Ozzgallery Paris, 2007
Signed series numbered 1 to 50.
PECC Eco-Label.
€ 10,000
Beach or spa hut / secret refuge: personal shelter with multi-purpose chests.
OZZ.1: Beach or spa hut / secret refuge: personal shelter with multi-purpose chests, made of ash from the Chaux forest in the Doubs region.
Woods collection, Ozzgallery Paris, 2007
Signed series numbered 1 to 999.
€ 5,500
Tea pavilion: roofless extravagance-cum-hut, a place to sit or lie down, alone or with the family, made of ash from the Chaux forest in the Doubs region.
Woods collection, Ozzgallery Paris, 2007
Signed series numbered 1 to 50
PECC Eco-Label.
€ 12,000