French luxury lighting editor Ozone and Dominique Perrault Architecture have been neighbours for years. Truly neighbours – Ozone’s offices literally overlook the roof of Perrault’s studio in Paris’ 11th arrondissement.
But they didn’t know it until a mutual friend introduced them two years ago and they decided to collaborate. Etienne Gounot and Eric Jähnke, Ozone’s co-founders, had long admired the desk lamp that Perrault’s firm designed for the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand in the 1990s. Made of aluminium, it is a deceptively simple-looking structure of right angles and flat, intersecting planes.
