The design branch of Olivier Felix Isselin Ltd
OFI Design is the branch dedicated to design, space, scenography, museography, art direction, and consultancy within Olivier Felix Isselin Ltd.
Led by Olivier Felix Isselin, it brings together projects of conception and creation in which form, use, legibility, and coherence occupy a central place. Whether the project takes the form of an object, an interior, a scenographic device, a visitor journey, or a cultural environment, the aim remains the same: to produce responses that are accurate, structured, and enduring.
Its approach privileges precision, sobriety, and the strength of form over effect. Beauty is never treated as artifice, but as the result of a precise relationship between necessity, proportion, material, and intention.
Approach
Design is not approached here as a decorative addition. It is treated as a discipline of project in its own right: a way of organising space, clarifying use, structuring experience, and giving form to an idea.
This approach is grounded in a number of constant principles:
- accuracy of proportion
- attention to use
- legibility of form
- coherence between function, drawing, material, and perception
- refusal of gratuitous effect
Each project seeks a point of balance between evidence and demand.
Not to persuade through spectacle, but to endure through accuracy.
Fields
These fields are not conceived as separate categories, but as extensions of the same practice: thinking of form as a sensitive, legible, and constructed response.
Within this framework, OFI Design works in particular across the following areas:
- object design
- spatial design
- scenography
- museography
- art direction
- display systems
- conception of cultural environments
- design consultancy and project framing
- reflection on uses, visitor journeys, and perception
The same level of demand, whatever the scale
From the detail of an object to the organisation of a larger space, the work is grounded in the same attention to:
- the relationship between form and use
- the relation between the body and space
- the rhythm of perception
- the articulation of material, light, and circulation
- the capacity of a project to produce presence, clarity, and evidence
This continuity makes it possible to move from one register to another without rupture: from object to furniture, from furniture to space, from space to scenography, and from scenography to museography.
Consultancy and support
Before or alongside a design mission, Olivier Felix Isselin Design also undertakes consultancy, project framing, and strategic support assignments.
This work may concern the positioning of a project, its overall coherence, its uses, its formal orientation, its relation to a place or to a cultural context, as well as the way it can be given a clear structure and a just identity.
It is intended for institutions, public or private commissioners, companies, publishers, and project holders seeking an external, structured, and demanding point of view.
Projects
Projects developed within Olivier Felix Isselin Design include objects, spaces, scenographies, and cultural projects of various kinds.
Among the projects currently underway is the overall conception, scenography, and museography of the Cité du Cristal in Bayel, a future international museum dedicated to crystal and glass. This project involves reflection on content, visitor journeys, spatial organisation, mediation, and the overall visitor experience.
Other projects relate to object design, furniture, spatial staging, and the creation of environments conceived in the same spirit of rigor, legibility, and elegance.
Positioning
Olivier Felix Isselin Design is addressed to public and private commissioners, cultural institutions, publishers, companies, and partners looking for an approach that is at once creative, demanding, and professional.
The structure offers a clear framework for project development and direction, while the direct involvement of Olivier Felix Isselin guarantees continuity of vision, from conception to form.
The principle remains simple:
a just form does not impose itself through effect, but through necessity.
Talks and public engagements
Alongside his projects, Olivier Felix Isselin also takes part in conferences, public conversations, juries, and speaking engagements devoted to design, architecture, museography, visual culture, and the relationship between form, use, and society.
These interventions extend the same line of thought: to consider objects, spaces, and forms as cultural, sensitive, and concrete constructions.
They may take the form of:
- conferences
- public conversations
- round tables
- juries
- masterclasses
- editorial or institutional contributions
in France and internationally.
Recognition
The work of Olivier Felix Isselin has been recognised through several international awards and institutions, including:
- A’ Design Award
- European Design Award
- Grand Prix du Design Paris
- Innovation Award – Institut Français du Design
- Paris Design Award
- Japan Design Award
- Italy International Design Award
- French Design 100
These distinctions accompany a practice grounded in conceptual rigor, continuity of research, and the desire to produce projects that are at once legible, solid, and enduring.
For professionals
Presentation materials, selected projects, and additional information are available on request for institutions, commissioners, publishers, partners, and professionals in the field.
For any contact request, project presentation, consultancy inquiry, speaking invitation, or conference request: