What does SAAZS mean ?
"Saazs offers objects with a new typological classification, a universe of feelings to discover and share. We designed our brand the same way we designed our creations. The name SAAZS is simple yet sophisticated, delicate and also sensual."
What do SAAZS products have in particular ?
"Saazs products are objects with simple and rather sensual presence. Living with a lightpiece does not just mean possessing a fine object but also redefining your daily life with a unique experience. Style and design are part of it but become completely incidental as soon as the lightpiece illuminates - illuminates you. I see fine objects everyday, but this experience, the feeling you get around a Saazs object - this is something no other product will ever give you. As Robert Morris used to say, " Simplicity of shape does not necessarily equate with simplicity of experience". This is very much applicable to Saazs."
Is the phrase "light fixture" still relevant ?
"In a sense, lightpieces do light up the same way as light fixtures.
We could say that LightBird is both a table on which you can rest your drink and a lamp that lights up your living-room. Those are all acceptable appelations that refer to what our creations look like at the first sight. Practically, though, I should be saying "This is not a table". We go beyond shape-based design - our goal is to act upon the way the object is used.
Light is complitely different, pure, direct and generous. According to your mood, you can gaze at it, stroke it, feel it on your face. You are in direct relationship with it. This feeling goes way beyond the functionnal identity of light fixtures, which always interpolate a filter between you and the light.
So Yes, you might say that LightBird is a table, that Wallover is a console-light, that Flaq is a column light. All those definitions are correct, but we prefer to call them lightpieces - pieces that radiate light, pieces that are light."
Speaking of which - what does light have in particular ? What is this technology ?
To keep it simple, you could say it's a new glass with light emitting patterns.
The question is, what does this technology bring me, as a human being, a creator, a user ?. This is what prompted our long years of development along with Saint-Gobain Innovations."
What makes the technology used in SAAZS products revolutionary, then ?
"There haven't been that many major innovations in the field of lighting, perhaps 3 or 4 ever since the light bulb was invented. Each of them fortuitously influenced our lifestyle and the development of our world, but they all focused heavily on technical issues such as increasing light output or lifetime, saving energy etc,. That all changed when LEDs appeared a few years ago - suddenly everyone started talking about colours, experiences, feelings, which was already a revolution in its own right.
In that respect, Saazs' technology is an essential innovation that breaks free from all existing technologies. It is a soothing light, that you can touch without getting burned, contemplate without getting blind, a light we can interact with directly and safely. This completely redefines the very notion of light fixture.
This technology required 6 years of work and patience to attain this new intimacy between man and light.
Saazs' lightpieces celebrate this new relationship with simplicity and poetry."
Do your products qualify as "high-tech" ?
"Does "high-tech" add anything to anything ? No it doesn't. Is a 'high-tech' product any better that a 'non-high-tech' one ? Not necessarily.
Just like the term 'light fixture', 'high-tech' can be used to describe our products. Saazs publishes technological objects that herald a new way of implementing light within our living spaces. However I would'nt want that aspect to prevail over the experience they bring. Saazs has a privilege and the responsability to materialize this new technology and and offer objects that bring progress, comfort and emotion into your living spaces. I prefer to say that Saazs Lightpieces are poetic living objects."
Are Saazs products rare and who are they meant for ?
"The manufacturing process for our Lightpieces is very complex, with very strict specifications that they must comply with. Each lamp requires hours of carefull assembly with vast amounts of testing to follow. To deliver all the emotion our Lightpieces have to offer, we are very demanding in terms of quality and development.
Practically, this year we will be publishing maybe 400 to 500 pieces per country - that is a very small quantity... By definition, Lightpieces are therefore rare objects that will published in very limited series or pre-series.
Our creations are directed towards interior architects, decorators and interior design enthusiasts who want to explore with us all the emotion that living, soothing light-matter can bring to our living quarters.
Our approach is also directed towards collectors. Through 'SAAZS institute', we publish limited, numbered series signed by world-class designers. Through their own visions and creativity, they bring an essential contribution to our reflections and grant us exceptionnal objects."
