studio 5.5 recombines sockets and switches into modular lighting and furniture building blocks

Sockets and switches become VOLT FACE building blocks

Volt Face by Studio 5.5 reinterprets Schneider Electric’s Odace range of sockets and switches as a collection of lighting and furniture. Developed by Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé, the project follows the studio’s approach of repurposing familiar everyday objects while retaining their original functions.

The collection includes a wall light, table, bedside table, pendant light, and other lamps that place switches and sockets at the center of each design. Components from the Odace range are recombined and repositioned to explore their materials, colors, finishes, and tactile qualities.

Volt Face Lamp, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

Studio 5.5 turns familiar switch into a point of interaction

Switches and sockets are usually installed at the end of an interior project, but Volt Face by Studio 5.5 treats them as starting points. The familiar act of pressing a switch becomes part of the physical interaction with each object, with the characteristic click contributing to the sensory experience.

The project also presents the Odace range as a modular design vocabulary. Instead of selecting individual products from a catalog, designers and interior architects can combine, repeat, and arrange the components as building blocks, using an industrial range as a starting point for new objects and configurations.

Volt Face Lamp, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

‘click’ becomes part of Volt Face’s tactile design language

‘We wanted to encourage people to try them, to make them want to touch them, to make them wonder whether everything is actually functional, whether it works when you press this one,’ shares the design team. The gesture becomes an integral part of the project. And so does the famous ‘click.’

Volt Face also invites us to look at an industrial range in a different way. The Odace range becomes a toolbox. Each socket, each switch becomes a building block that designers and interior architects can play with, repeat, combine, and build upon. An industrial range is not an end in itself. It is a vocabulary.

Volt Face Lamp, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

Volt table, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

Volt Face table, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

Volt Face pending lamp, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

Volt Face table and lamp, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

Volt Face pending lamp, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

Volt Face wall lamp, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

Volt Face nightstand, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

Volt Face collection, Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé from Studio 5.5 for Schneider Electric

project info:

name: Volt Face
designer: Studio 5.5 | @studio5.5

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