The universe of the game has yet welded them

It does not play because she doesn't like losing, she said. He leaves result in endless and backgammon tournaments parties chess. Insatiable player, he loves to risk random dice. The universe of the game has yet welded them. Isabelle Guédon and Benjamin Caron know each other since childhood. A couple like "rock", ultra-tendance. Nothing to do with the unfortunate hero of Dostoevsky lost by his passion for the game. Sheathed in skin, patinated and gloss in deep shades that give the illusion of the wood of ebony, the games they design, backgammon, chess, checkers, dominoes, they were inspired by the universe of the botterie and the perfection of its definitions. The two partners also offer desktop and exception furniture accessories characterized by their clean lines to the graphical style, or even japonisant.

Well before it be discovered by the Moma in New York and decorators of the Fith Avenue, it is almost by chance that they have embarked on a project that brought them chance and led to the creation of their brand, Deuce, in 1999. Benjamin was shoe-maker in a large Parisian House. Isabelle remembers him, child, tirelessly drawing shoes: "models by thousands, the shoe was his obsession!" More connected by textile, Isabelle, exit staff of the school of decorative arts, dreamed of working alongside Christian Lacroix. She won a stage in the House prior to be noticed by the team of Guy Laroche. She then joined the dreamlike world of the fashion designer Alber Elbaz. As a first Assistant, she is responsible for the creations of clothing and accessories and oversees the Organization of the work. "Impregnation of the style of Alber Elbaz caused me small firearms in a some selflessness of my desires, the merger was too strong," says the young woman.

The game of Pocket made conquests

His path again crosses that of Benjamin. One day, with falls of leather shoes, they play to make a folding Pocket backgammon, inlaid Swarovski crystals. The thirty pieces of the game, the pair of dice and videau (cube) are leather. Proud of their creation, they will submit it to the salon Maison & object with other pieces of their manufacture. Small handheld game made conquests, pushing Benjamin and Isabella to participate in the competition organised by the show entitled "Talents à la carte", which they won. Backgammon was then noticed by the New York fashion designer Donna Karan buyers who work in the development of a new concept store. Intrigued and seduced by the creations of the young couple, they will buy them all. "It was incredible." "We are left the show empty hands, a huge smile to the lips", remembers Isabelle. The fairy tale continues when Donna Karan offers their game in Christmas gifts to friends: Giorgio Armani, Bill Clinton, Jeremy Irons, and others also media. The Museum of Modern Art command them in turn two handheld games. The effect snowballed is running.

Although few prepared for a rapid success, Isabelle and Benjamin are faced with an avalanche of orders while the skins are scarce - it was in the mad cow crisis! However particular architects and decorators, to expand their offer of custom objects. Thus were born screens, tables and chairs covered with leather working contact or mosaics. Need them also a cabinetmaker help to work the beech wood which is then covered with pieces of skin structure. Their workshop is located at Nogent-sur-Marne, while the creation and the showroom are installed two steps from the place des Victoires, Paris.

The design of the objects is always two. "Benjamin visualizes, draws in 3D on a computer and focuses more on proportions." "I then performs an advanced draft, works details and colors," says Isabelle. This year, they took first prize at the Salon du meuble with a writing desk. Ultimate consecration: the table that ordered them the Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabre, in concrete and shades of grey leather. All parts are in signature Welt, made a mark with a shoe-maker wheel.