JEROME OLIVET

He is designer with 10 years experience in creating “spatial” concept’s products. He has worked with Philippe Starck during 3 years. Next, he created for Alessi (his “Moosk” radio is exhibited in the Modern Art Museum of Montreal, for Thomson Multimedia, for Baccarat and for Alcatel (the “Alo” phone with vocal control is exhibited in the Modern Art Museum of Paris). His “Demon” soap is also exhibited in Paris, in the “Palais de Tokyo”. During the Furniture Exhibit of Milan in 2001, he presented
a “Bionics” Collection of chairs and lamps, based on the concept that “today, the design can multiply the senses and sharpen people’s emotions in order to rebuild a brand new society”. This is the reason why he wanted to create a new line of leather-goods, both with intentional futurist shapes and everyday’s functionality.Combining esthetics and ergonomics stays the leitmotiv of Jerome Olivet’s emotional universe, a creator in the forefront of design.

Director of the short entitled “Force Humaine” (1977).
Teacher in prospective design (1998).
Prizewinner of the Contemporary Furniture Criticism of the International Press (1999).
And for leather-goods line :
Nominated at “Le Sommet du Luxe et de la Création” (2003).
Prizewinning with the “VIA Label” for the Innovation (2004).

25 Flexible architectures

“I have designed a collection with qualities and new forms. A whole emotional universe from the vase to the diary while passing by the luggage. In all, 25 objects which reinvent the work and leisures universe. In the active life, the body must be ultra powerful. For that one needs instruments for precise and new functionalities. An equipment made up of body prostheses magnifiant the gesture and the movement. Each object is designed like a dynamic space where the desire and the function are appeased. These evolutionary architectures are elaborate according to a process which combines high technology and assembly with the hand. They complete our space and by their luxurious simplicity offer to us magic moments. These ergonomic solutions, real fusions between our body and the objet change our manner of seeing the world: our life is simplified and become creative. “

WGY

Since 1948, WGY manufactures fine leather goods from A to Z: cut out, marking, assembly, completion. It is while having known to combine the techniques avant-gardists with the experiment and the know-how of its leather workmen that WGY became a reference of the market of the objects used in the communication of company. Its reputation is associated the image of the largest French or foreign companies: Mercedes, TFI, Pfizer, General Electric, Zurich insurances, Alcatel, Airport of Paris, Air Liquid , French National Parliament, Marriott Hotels... Thanks to this experiment and to the meeting with the designer Jerome Olivet, WGY launches out today in the sale to general public by the largest door: articles of exception.

David WU
general manager - engineer

“The meeting with Jerome gave us desire of revival in leather working. To adopt a major step in the design of a whole line of goods was a challenge. We developed and realized more than 100 matrices of cutting and assembly. 20 people were mobilized at WGY. That took to us more than 2 years and we had each one 10 years of expérience in our respective fields: Jerome in the design with the space concept and myself in the development of cut out and pre-assembled products technologically then handicrafts finished. From the beginning, we gave Jerome carte blanche and that was easy because we were very quickly in phase: esthetism, functionality and quality were the Masters words of the project. Our experiment of manufacturing luxury things for company gifts was useful so that the objects are accessible by the greatest number. From there, we worked together on the development of each product with this design approach present at any moment.”

www.jeromeolivet.fr
(diffusion WGY 0164909068)
Manufactured in France - Models protected