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The Workshop

Digital objects that behave like objects.

A button stays a button. A radio keeps its gestures. The digital side is there, but it minds its manners.

Since 2024, the workshop in Prangins has been taking telephones and radios apart to teach them new tricks. Each piece taught the next one something. The latest on the list is called the Lucarne.

Where it comes from

The Lucarne wasn’t planned.

  1. A vintage telephone turned lamp, in a living room 01 — The telephone

    What if an old object could learn a new trick?

    A rotary phone becomes a lamp. Turning the dial changes the light. The gesture has stayed; it’s the reason behind it that has changed.

  2. A red 1950s radio by a swimming pool 02 — The radio

    What if technology could move in without spoiling everything?

    1950s radios playing today’s music. The original case, the original knobs, and a great deal of soldering in between.

  3. 03 — Compliance

    Making an object that works and being allowed to sell it are two different disciplines.

    These pieces were made to be sold. Then came the standards, electrical safety, electromagnetic compatibility, and the cost of certification, which can’t be shared out when an object exists as a single piece.

  4. The Lucarne lit up on a sideboard, its blue light reflected in the wood 04 — The Lucarne

    What if, this time, the object were designed from the outset to be able to leave the workshop?

    A brand-new object, designed around its own components, made for small-batch production and for the requirements of a product on sale. The workshop’s first.

A word on compliance

It works. That’s not the same as “it can be sold”.

A product on sale has to prove that it doesn’t get hotter than it should, doesn’t interfere with the neighbours’ radio and won’t surprise anyone when it’s plugged in. That’s normal. Reassuring, even.

For a 1950s radio converted just once, that proof costs far more than the radio itself. And it would have to be done all over again for the next one, which has neither the same case nor the same components.

So these pieces stay in the workshop, where they do their job very well: showing what’s possible, and where what came next came from. The Lucarne, for its part, was designed from the outset with these requirements in mind.

The workshop’s experiments

Everything that came before.

Telephones, radios, lamps. These aren’t products that have sold out: they’re the workshop’s experiments, and the reason the Lucarne exists.

Vintage radio in a chalet living room RadiosMade in the 1950s, they play today’s music without ever changing their case. Yellow telephone turned into a lamp Telephone lampsLift the receiver, turn the dial: the light changes. Vintage private-line telephone on a desk Private linesTwo telephones, two places, one familiar voice. Rare telephone by the sea Collector’s piecesRare pieces left untouched. They had nothing to learn.

Pieces that have already left → How a piece is made → All the pieces →

The workshop in motion

Forgotten Frequencies

A visual daydream: the spirit of the workshop, between rediscovered frequencies and objects coming back to life.

What people say
“The sound is cool, I wasn’t expecting that!”
Degiheugi Beatmaker, abstract hip-hop
What’s next

This one, on the other hand, was designed to leave the workshop.

Discover the Lucarne →