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Right from the start...  From his Italian roots, Gino Luigi Pisani has kept fantasy. In fifteen years, this goldsmith of steel structures has doubled Framatec workforce - his lifetime passion – gathering a hundred steel sorcerers in Moselle valley, at the heart of Vosges. His credo: meet the most daring challenges when it comes to customized steel architectural constructions, performing haute couture to dress the top of Tower T1 in La Defense with a diadem similar to Miss France's. In a decade, his acrobat alchemists have been carrying their torches from the steel dome of Yamoussoukro’s Basilica in Ivory Coast to giant ellipses curved at the very millimeter: a tipi for Pompidou Center or a forest of posts for future French nuclear testing center. |
Each time it is about haute couture, industrial rigor mixed with fuliginous contemporary baroque trends. Why this daring in the austere and linear world of steelwork? To better understand it, we should look back at the original Italian fantasy, a desire to take side roads. Gino Luigi Pisani could not be entirely satisfied with alchemists’ metal teams without transforming their technological skills and taming steel art in fancier perspectives. Gino Luigi Pisani has also a son and a conscience linked to his heart: he could not imagine his company to be one day transferred to a fund or another cold-blooded financier not familiar with steel in fusion he has been loving for so long. Together with his son, they have expanded the range of possibilities and initiated "Ykebana." In other words: his department "Sculptor of raw material." At the end of the day, his steel sorcerers twist conveniences in order to introduce this material in our daily lives, making it familiar, magical, tailor-made for enlightened amateurs. Still fantasy ... But always with industrial standards, in limited edition. At this futurist ceremony of fashion metal, he invited aesthetes of well-being and French elegance, saddlers, cabinetmakers, designers, painters, demonic expert searchers in digital translation of his daydreams. |
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