Pine’s came from the desire to challenge an everyday object that couldn’t be more elementary and to rethink its structure. Simple and timeless, the safety clip is a great example of an industrial mass product. The challenge was to redesign this object and reduce it to the most simple mechanism before giving it an added value. François Dumas undertook research in his workshop by diving into the essence of the object in order to challenge its simplicity and to add a story to the classic safety pin. As often for him, it is essential to have a hand on research anchored in his atelier, where inquisitiveness, gesture and repetition come together to create. By spending time creating springs, deforming steel rods, bending wire in an experimental, naive, non-pretentious and curious manner, Dumas added a second spring to the original design and found a mechanical answer telling a story without compromising the function of the safety pin on top of bringing it an unexpected and striking appearance. This interpretation of the safety pin has been turned into a jewellery piece by silver and gold plating it and is produced in small series.
