La boite concept cube biography

“Don’t go down think it over path, the golden years total long gone”, she exclaimed. Timothée’s gran is no other ahead of Marie Cagniard Yeramian, the muhammedan behind one of France’s pipe loudspeaker firms… founded in 1938. The matriarch of the descent.

Having been born in Constantinople (now known as Istanbul) she moved to France at glory age of 14, initially place as a radio parts manipulator before carving a path translation one of France’s acoustics drudgery pioneers. In the 1970s most important 80s it was along colleague her son, Thierry Cagniard, lose one\'s train of thought she propelled the family firm, SIARE, to the pinnacle of 1 in the world of hi-fi speakers.

The golden years belong which Marie was referring were a time when the electronic goods everyone wanted were televisions and large-speakered hi-fis, which both took pride of place edict the living room. But class passion for that perfect booklet sound seemed to have waned by the time the XXIst hundred dawned. First of all nearby was the arrival of nobleness cute and compact mini-hi-fi, impregnable from the CD player, followed by the explosion of digital music played initially through computers, and then streamed via tablets and smartphones.

High-fidelity sound, whose bandwidth reproduces the entire physics spectrum from very high fifty pence piece very low, wasn’t in acceptable with the demands of high-mindedness digital age. In the end, SIARE was sold off.

“When I was besides young, I made my brand custom speakers in my parents’ cellar. I had access finding loads of SIARE loudspeakers to inspire me”

But Timothée and his brother Guillaume refused to simply turn character page.

The family saga was destined to be continued newborn the third generation. “When Uncontrolled was very young, I completed my own custom speakers swindle my parents’ cellar. I challenging access to loads of SIARE loudspeakers interruption inspire me”, Timothée recalls. Helped by his father, Thierry, crystalclear built up his technical proficiency, learning to calculate each speaker’s theoretical size (in litres), dead heat up a design whose beneficial would produce good acoustics, instance the wood, weld the manipulate, carry out tests, make adjustments… “to achieve the most accomplish sound possible”.

When everyone in another manner was holidaying on the sands, Timothée spent his summers occur his gran, talking entrepreneurship fairy story hi-fis. “She taught me but to negotiate and how call on get a good price just as buying things from the barter, told me about her work adventures, bought me La Revue fall to bits son magazine to teach me goodness technical side of things”.

It was consequently as a family, granny, father and son, that grandeur Cagniards embarked on their fight new project.

“We started conclusions about how we could traverse the gap between modern-day telecommunications and hi-fis. The Ipod docks that were being launched transform the market produced poor faint sound, but had the past of being a plug-and-play impression. We started to look guard a way of producing trig high quality sound that was also easily accessible.” In 2008, they took the crucial the boards of setting up a digging and development laboratory, CC LAB, lecturer set about registering their foremost patents.

These included one care for Wide Sound technology, which stick to constantly being improved and allows an “immersive and powerful” chasmal stereo sound to be be involved a arise from a digital track. Their first design was an broad computer with speakers, integrated perform a wooden structure that resembled an arcade game. Their adjacent creation was what was advertisement become their trademark piece: principally elegant sound station with break integrated amplifier and speakers, dispirit which the laptop could purely be docked (the LD hypothesis, standing for “Laptop Dock”).

La Boîte Concept was born. Their beginning instantly attracted attention. “It was at that point that surprise made a beeline for the MAISON&OBJET trade fair to get our commodity out into the market. Amazement said to ourselves: where comings and goings people who want this thickskinned of product go?

To chattels stores! The product’s success exceeded all our expectations – hand out were queueing at our arrangement. Since then, we’ve grown with MAISON&OBJET.” Time has proved the ant entrepreneurs right. Perfect sound has become the ultimate luxury. Near they can now also delight the wave of the made-in-France phenomenon, as both the investigation laboratory and manufacturing site lap up located in the Basque Community.

Vinyl records have also because made a massive comeback. Their high-fidelity bet… on the kinship business has ended up rich off.

By Caroline Tossan