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DesignHeure, MAKER OF LIGHTS
DesignHeure
is publisher of contemporary lighting. Characterized by a French manufacturing with an offer tailored for professionals, it recruits the best designers to design collections that are both simple, elegant and ingenious, respond to market needs and impress with their signatures.

Widely recognized for its decorative lighting projection, DesignHeure is now developing towards the creation and the reissue of pure contemporary lighting, offering new key uniqueness and functionality that are his signature: perspective, purity of form, harmony ....


HISTORY - The adventure begins in November 2005, in southern France, Sète, city of light and artists. Two contractors design enthusiasts, a former legal officer of Danone and a former CFO of major groups, combine to create DesignHeure to give life to the ideas of Bernard Boucher, son of a Swiss watchmaker, now
designer of contemporary furniture and lamps. Together they turn an industrial projectora in an innovative and design light. Designheure becomes in the minds of all, synonymous with decorative projection.


A PHILOSOPHY "Our collection must reflect all creeds of DesignHeure directory : quality, aesthetics, ingenuity and creativity," says Benedict Collod, Director General in charge of brand development. DesignHeure features objects both useful but also generators of beauty, atmosphere, light, emotion ... Each of the products published is an object design and aesthetics as such.

A CHALLENGE: DESIGN AND FRENCH MANUFACTURE
Get and wear the colors of creativity and French elegance by signing creations 100% Made in France. A real feat of proposing, competitive prices, product design, requiring much development and evolution, with real attention to detail, for products that are completely successful. The proposed lighting DesignHeure all occurred in France, with small volume manufacturing methods combining small industry and handicrafts.

vignette portrait kristian.jpgTHE LUXIOLE COLLECTION - Simple but large - Design Kristian Gavoille
A graduate of the Ecole d'Architecture de Toulouse.
The meeting, meteoric, with the pope Design Philippe Starck, with whom he worked for 5 years, it will make a diagonal between Architecture and Design.

His first bestseller is the table "Divine", whose only big pedestal foot skirted cast aluminum. It develops smart objects, colorful, talkative, unexpected and offbeat. All it does is changing as in fashion, because he loves ephemeral.
Its culture is the street. Here he picks his miscegenation, its nomadism.

Drafted by a white card at Via in 1991, he was elected designer of the year in 1992 and will feature several collections in the general editor Peter Studenmeyer Neotu founder of the gallery.

Kristian Gavoille likes to tell stories ...


hlanglaisvignette.jpg The celestial design - THE NOMADS CLOUDS - Hervé Langlais

Widely praised for its decorative lighting projection, DesignHeure is now developing towards the creation and the reissue of pure contemporary lighting, offering a new key of uniqueness and functionality that are his signature: perspective, purity of form, harmony .... DesignHeure appealed to designers of talent, including former international architect Hervé Langlais, collaborator Paul Andreu.

The latter signs the cloud line, a new elegant design and clever
nomad lighting. The Cloud range, gives the feeling of floating in the air. Its lightness and adaptability make it the best seller of the new collection 2010. Modular almost indefinitely suspended ..., by 3, 6, forming a very theatrical luster, surface mounted in lamp, floor lamp ... everyone can adapt its light and its environment and make it his own.

The pure and useful design - DESKS LAMPS laurent vignette.jpg Laurent Bailly

Laurent Bailly joined in 2009 the team Designheure to provide expertise on the world of the hotel and its needs by signing the Empirical desk lamp.


raoul rabavignette.jpg The vintage design - THE REISSUES OF THE DESIGNER RAOUL RABA nonne.jpg

In this year 2010, DesignHeure tributes to Raoul Raba and his creations a timeless modernity. DesignHeure republishes
in a Limited edition three most outstanding creations of the 70s.
- Suspension E-60, released in 1967, with its 60 elements in polyethylene assembled like fractals.
- The collection Radiolaria, released in 1968. fine example of decorative art. Savant braiding elements in polycarbonate for a flower of light
- The nun, released in 1972, his finest creation of the general opinion.


With this desk lamp with a remarkable fluidity, DesignHeure just won the prize of Discovery at the last Maison & Objet show.


The walls have their say - PROJECTING CLOCKS AND LAMPS bb vignette.jpg Design Bernard Boucher

From this collaboration was born the collection of projection clocks COOLHEURE. With this creation, DesignHeure gets the discovery price at Maison & Objet in 2007 and was also selected by Francois Bernard on the trendy forum "artsy craftsy" at Maison et Objet show. In the spirit of kinetic art, in homage to the painter and designer Vasarelli, Bernard Bouchet draws the graphics clock Alavasa creating an optical illusion showing a sphere.

In 2008, the trend is to personalize the decoration and projection. Designheure created in the wake of Bernard Bouchet, with the designer Hervé Langlais, the Miss Scope Collection. Designed to beautify the space, the projection lamp is a customizable jewel lighting,  with a pop looking. The table lamp Miss Scope is selected on the forum trends Nelly Rodi agency, at the Maison & Objet in January 2008.


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