Ramy Fischler / Designer

When he’s not busy designing the new Brasserie de la Tour Eiffel or working on the new Parisian philanthropy HQ, Ramy Fischler spends his time questioning our relationship with the world and living things. In 2020, Maison&Objet gave him free reign to showcase tomorrow’s everyday existence and new domestic trends in a life-sized behavioural laboratory within the trade fair itself. Today, he invites us to explore the lesser-known side of his everyday life.

Self Portrait. We invite professionals from the lifestyle, culture and communications world to snap six shots that sum up their story. Smartphone in hand, they have fun revealing all the little nothings around which their world revolves. It’s time to take a peek behind closed doors.

Portrait
“My wife often sends me photos she’s taken of me working in the most unlikely “offices”. Equipped with my two phones, my earphones, my iPad and my Apple pen, I basically shut out everything around me and immerse myself in a project, often working remotely as part of a team. I can’t even remember when I last had a “proper” office... It may well have been when I worked at Villa Medicis, ten years ago.”

Futile object“
“This plate I purchased at a Norwegian car boot sale, although goodness only knows why. I’m not obsessed with objects at all, and only surround myself with a handful of pieces of which I’m particularly fond. And yet I just can’t seem to help being drawn to the dodgiest looking crockery and tea sets whenever I stroll around a flea market. There must be more of a designer in me than I would care to admit...” 

Good luck charm
“I don’t really have a good luck charm or anything that vaguely resembles one... Any I may have had in the past must have got mislaid well before earning a place in my heart... I lose everything, so I never get attached to anything. On rummaging around in an old box filled with bits and bobs from my childhood, I came across this original vinyl record that would have been played on one of Edison’s first-ever phonographs. The record was part of the phonograph collection my Dad had for a little while. I’ve spent the past 25 years constantly on the move, and I must say I was really surprised to find something that has survived my travels pretty much unscathed and probably in full working order... If only I had a phonograph...”

A souvenir
“How am I supposed to choose just ONE souvenir?! That’s impossible. My only option is to randomly point at one of the pictures in my “favourites” folder on my phone... picking out one of many souvenir snaps, that are all nonetheless thoroughly unique. This one was taken when I travelled to Iceland to shoot a Don Pérignon campaign for which I was overseeing the artistic direction and design.” It was a magical, incredible and stunning location, and we captured this shot of a block of marble nestled on a bench-style sofa against a backdrop of waves crashing onto a black sand beach... What a day!”

Current crush
“Without a doubt, the wall that I’m gazing at right now as I write. It’s a wall in my apartment where I gave my artist friend, Pier Stockholm, free rein to express his creative talent. The result is a freshly repainted wall that has been savagely attacked by an Olympic biathlon team who appear to have lost their way... not to mention their eyesight. I love this piece of artwork. It puts a smile on my face every time I walk through my front door. 

Useful object
“I’m not proud to admit it, but my most useful object, and the one I simply can’t do without, is my phone. Things would obviously have been different had phones never been invented, but as things stand my phone is something I can’t manage without. It’s my office, my brain, my third eye... I can take a photo of it because I actually have two of them ;-)”