Born in Normandy in 1979, Florian DeZegher is currently working in Paris.
Historian and art historian, he became an interior designer for the pleasure of mixing creativity, space and materials.
On the occasion of two Parisian exhibitions, he discovered the yummy photographies by Nicolas Knepper in May 2017 then the Box Stories by Gaspard Mitz in March 2018. From this moment, he interested in small HO train figurines (scale 1/87) and approached some artists as the Japanese Tanaka Tatsuya who takes every day pictures with such figurines.
It was his turn in 2019 when he began to create frames then bells in order to evoke the cabinets of curiosities in which he has recycled and distorted those HO characters.
He had imagined little boxes for his customers when he gave them the keys of the flat/house after refurbishment. As clients appreciated his tiny gifts, he decided to make new ones for his own and exhibited them through Instagram and a couple of French exhibitions from 2023.
Framed, put under a cloche or on tiles, his Worldini aim to parody the society and question his contemparies thanks to idiomatic expressions.
Frames are made to order by a Parisian frame-maker with plywood and anti-reflective glass.
The cloches are mainly bought on second-hand trade and are made with blown or pressed glass with wood bases.
Plain tiles from the 19th century, however, have been excavated from his garden.
Those various shapes and figures allow him to create unique pieces.