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« The architectural excellence and industrial know-how of SMEs combined to create an innovative project that gives a new vision the lobby of our buildings. An avant-garde reflection upon such a commonplace object was necessary. Jean Nouvel thus rethought mail distribution by creating a special, convivial meeting place around that simple object, the mailbox. Our family company, European leader, is happy to introduce to you the TRANSCRIPT concept, that will enhance the architectural project by giving to it another dimension. » STEPHANE DECAYEux Family company created in 1872, Decayeux,...

"The entrance way of a building is a space that tells about its inhabitants, its families or its companies: it's a noble place that also must be the pride and joy of those who walk across it, and command everybody's respect. The point here was to think of a global system the mailboxes would be a part of, that would simply ensure, whatever the typology of the entrance ways it's built in, the quality of the space. " "It seemed to me that this project was an opportunity to bring out the inhabitants through their names: I had the idea of a wall of names. With the engraved plates of monuments in...

The occupiers’ or the companies’ names are TRANSCRIPT’s main concern. Essential by their readability to the functionality of the mailbox, the names are composed on a name plate and on the principles of composing sticks and print letters, and inserted into runners on the front of the mailboxes. The name plates can be ordered online and delivered in a few days to the building managers or directly to the occupiers. The installation and the name plating are very simple and the runner system enables a quick reissuing of names, henceforth easy servicing. Transcript offers a variety of styles of...

transcript system exterior angle profile interior angle profile The Transcript system comes as a wall. It creates architecture and identity. Beyond its apparent simplicity, a set of combinatorials that you put like a lining for an architecture and that adapts to any place, a 16th century building just as well as a contemporary building. The device can completely cover the space, but not necessarily… It includes mailboxes, parcel boxes, billboards, signposting, and all the functions of an entrance way. Modular, this system allows changing the number or the layout of mailboxes according to...

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anodised aluminium coated choice of color “ In principle, I rather conceive an entrance wall aluminum color, anodized black or dark grey, gun barrel, but it can also be red. It’s more of a parameters system in which you can change the implantation of the boxes, the characters, play on different colors, and which architects can make their own. ” JEAN

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