Les amateurs d'archives sont rares car les démarches sont fastidieuses : rendez-vous - à justifier -, temps et volumes limités : "voici trois cartons à ouvrir"... finalement le bon dossier se trouve sous les yeux de notre voisin... Sans compter les sources multiples : archives nationales, dépôt d'un ministère envoyé au diable bouilli, fonds d'une préfecture au secret, dossier d'une commune sous des toiles d'araignée, dépôt privé ou privatisé... Cependant, d'ici dix ou vingt ans, il n'y aura plus grand chose à faire grâce à la numérisation, sauf à surfer sur des sites qui se fatigueront à notre place pour découvrir les bons gisements. Voilà qui nous mène des premières découvertes consacrées aux industriels Didier Rozaffy et Albert Ducrot jusqu'à Marcel Gascoin... J'avais ainsi localisé deux brevets sur un site américain puis un lecteur de ce blog - Nicolas le Du - m'a très aimablement contacté pour me donner l'adresse du site officiel http//worlwide.espacenet.com (advanced search) et le mode d'emploi. Il suffit de renseigner la ligne inventor puis de valider, et alors nous trouvons, par exemple, onze brevets déposés entre 1946 et 1976 par "gascoin marcel". En allant sur original document, nous découvrons alors les textes descriptifs et bien souvent les dessins comme la bibliothèque modulable (1946), le lit escamotable (1949), les éléments de rangement (1950) et la table transformable ronde-carrée (1951). Bien d'autres créateurs peuvent être tracés...
Those who love archives are rare because the process is tedious: appointments - to justify - volumes and time limited : "here are three boxes to open" - "Thanks" but finally the correct folder is located in front of our neighbor. Besides multiple sources: National Archives, Ministry sent a deposit in the middle of nowhere, papers from a prefecture in secret, file a town in cobwebs, private or privatized deposit ... However, ten or twenty years, there will be very simple with scanning, to surf sites that get tired for us to discover the good location. In the meantime, we stagnate in an in-between place, so you have a pipe to locate a track - here a copy of the archives of the Ministry of Industry (...), filed Pharma-Paris (?) Dispatched (!?) and then digitized in the United States (phew!) ... And that brings us the first discoveries from Didier Rozaffy, Albert Ducrot to Marcel Gascoin - who deposited two patents on what he sees as "technical innovation" as much as furniture: storage elements (1950) and the transformable table (1951) - it may be a first for a french furniture designer and this explains its position on "design", seeking to protect its models and consider them as "industrial products".
Those who love archives are rare because the process is tedious: appointments - to justify - volumes and time limited : "here are three boxes to open" - "Thanks" but finally the correct folder is located in front of our neighbor. Besides multiple sources: National Archives, Ministry sent a deposit in the middle of nowhere, papers from a prefecture in secret, file a town in cobwebs, private or privatized deposit ... However, ten or twenty years, there will be very simple with scanning, to surf sites that get tired for us to discover the good location. In the meantime, we stagnate in an in-between place, so you have a pipe to locate a track - here a copy of the archives of the Ministry of Industry (...), filed Pharma-Paris (?) Dispatched (!?) and then digitized in the United States (phew!) ... And that brings us the first discoveries from Didier Rozaffy, Albert Ducrot to Marcel Gascoin - who deposited two patents on what he sees as "technical innovation" as much as furniture: storage elements (1950) and the transformable table (1951) - it may be a first for a french furniture designer and this explains its position on "design", seeking to protect its models and consider them as "industrial products".