• Mission Statement

  • Ormond Editions is a Swiss based company with the ambition to offer exceptional and exclusive contemporary design created by established designers and young talents.

    Experimentation, high demand in the choices, quality of the key players acting for and around this project are part of our approach as well as a very high quality in the manufacturing of the projects in accordance with Swiss made standards.
    Among its lines, one of the interests of the gallery lies in the large freedom offered to the designers in their use of materials as well as in the choice of the themes leading to particularly accomplished projects.

    The gallery favours exchanges between designers, customers, specialists and design lovers in order to establish a productive dialog around the discipline. 

     

  • Founders

  • Frédéric Ormond has significant and complementary experience and knowledge in the fields of distribution and the Art Market. 
    From a law background at first, he gains a diploma from Christie’s Education in valuation of Apply Arts and a Masters in Art History from the Courtauld Institute in London. After his studies, he worked in the marketing department of a famous French jeweller and then was hired by a distribution company present in Asia. Frederic Ormond completes this experience in the commercial field with a job as Area Sales Manager for Europe at the watch division of the French saddler Hermès. 
    These different positions led him to travel extensively across Europe and Japan. 
    In 2008, he creates Ormond Editions specialised in the Editions of exceptional pieces of furniture and decorative objects. In 2009, this structure merges with Yama Productions, a company specialised in the edition of design products.

    Christian Geissbühler is an independent architect, graduate from the school of architecture from the University of Geneva. A leading specialist in Apply Arts, he taught this discipline as well as Art History at l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (EPFL). He organised several conferences and exhibitions on the work of major architects and designers from the 20th century such as Jean Prouvé, le Corbusier and Angelo Mangiarotti in particular. He founded Yama Productions in 2000, dedicated to vintage design and the reedition of design poducts. 
    With a wealth of experience behind him and a particular knowledge in the field he joins Ormond Editions in 2009 as partner in charge of the product making.