Furniture Collection by Sadi Ozis
1953 - 1967
First modern metal furniture in Turkey Kare Metal Atelier In 1953, a metal atelier was opened in sculpture department of Istanbul Arts Academy (today; Mimar Sinan University). Sadi Ozis and Ilhan Koman were very interested in the studies carried out in this atelier and within the same year two artists established their own metal atelier; Kare Metal in order to work on metal sculptures. Since there was not much interest in metal sculptures during those times, they began to look for additional income and started producing Turkey’s first metal furniture. This metal sculpture-furniture production where two artists had an opportunity to reflect their creativity in design, became a milestone in Turkish art scenery. After a short while these furniture, even today may seem to be avant-garde, attracted a lot of attention and orders started to increase. In 1958, a good friend and another sculptor Sadi Calik joined Kare Metal. Due to the lack of proper furniture raw material at the time in Turkey, the artists experimented with various materials – which were originally not meant to be used for metal sculpture-furniture – such as hexagonal wires, sieves, water pipes etc. Despite difficulties and various obstacles, the artists continued to produce authentic furniture which attracted the attention of international companies such as Knoll International. They invited Ozis to Paris and after a couple of meetings he was invited for a final meeting to USA. Unfortunately due to certain difficulties – both financial and bureaucratic – that meeting never happened. In 1958, first Ilhan Koman – after joining the Brussels Exhibition - then at the end of the year Sadi Calik left Kare Metal. Ozis continued to work on his own and in 1962 he founded a decoration company; Galeri-T. He decorated most of the well-established family owned company offices – such as Koç, Süren family businesses – with the furniture built in Kare Metal. In 1967, just before he moved to Paris, Ozis closed both companies.
Presently, original works created by Kare Metal and Galeri-T still exist in some private collections and Ozis’ own collection. In addition to that, Ozis has a photo-album of his own creations.
Sadi Ozis Sadi Ozis was born in Istanbul in 1923. After finishing high school in Istanbul Erkek Lisesi, he continued his education in Istanbul Arts Academy department of decoration and graduated from Kenan Temizan’s fashion atelier. In 1948, he received the state scholarship and went to Paris to study stage and costume design. He studied painting in André L’hote atelier, Academie Grande Chaumiere and Atelier de L’art Apstrait; stage and costume design in Ecole du Louvre, Academie Julian and Paul Colin atelier. It is around this time he started studying sculpture. He returned to Turkey in 1952 and was assigned to Istanbul Arts Academy as a faculty member. In 1962 he founded the Department of Stage and Costume Design with Erdogan Aksel and continued to be a faculty member, later on professor and department head till he retired in 1990. During his retirement he lectured in the Department of Architecture. In 1953, Sadi Ozis and Ilhan Koman founded Kare Metal, the metal atelier where Turkey’s first metal furniture was produced. In 1958, Ilhan Koman left Kare Metal and Sadi Ozis carried on design and production till 1967 on his own. Sadi Ozis continued working on his sculptures in Kare Metal and his sculpturefurniture creations attracted a lot of attention in the media both in Turkey and Europe. Sadi Ozis founded Galeri-T, one of Turkey’s leading decoration companies in 1962 and worked in this area together with Kare Metal till 1967. He participated in various local and international exhibitions with his works. He prepared 1:1 reliefs of Anitkabir (the founder of Turkish Republic Atatürk’s mausoleum) with sculptors Hadi Bara, Zühtü Müridoglu, Sadi Calik and Ilhan Koman. He was awarded second-prize in 1970 in the 24th State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition and first-prize in 1971 in the 32nd State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition. Ozis is still working on his design and painting projects in his own workshop. WORKS Works of Sadi Ozis are being displayed in State Painting and Sculpture museums in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, can also be found in various hotels and private collections.
Sieve Armchair 1959
14 mm construction iron bar was bent to form the framework, then the top part which was originally used as nut sieve was welded on the framework.
Fishnet chair 1959
14 mm construction iron bar was bent to form the framework. Then fishnet was woven inside, attached to the framework.
The same framework is also used with different kind of finishes such as upholstered with leather or fabric.
Circle chair 1961
Circle chair frame was produced from 15mm water pipe. The top part was a wheat sieve originally and after being shaped to fit the frame it was welded on top of it.
Geometric chair 1961
Geometric chair frame was produced from 15mm water pipe. The top part was a wheat sieve originally and after being shaped to fit the frame it was welded on top of it.
It has a different version as a stool without backrest and could also be used as an exterior furniture.
Burgaz chair 1953
12mm construction iron was used for the frame of Burgaz Chair and PVC electric cable without wire was used as weaving material.
Same frame has been used for an upholstered dining chair alternative.
Hexagonal 1958
Hexagonal chair is origanally the upholstered version of Woven chair.
Rumi armchair 1961
14 mm construction iron bar was bent to form the Rumi armchair framework. Framework has been upholstered with leather or fabric.
Cinar 1965
Cinar armchair is built from 20 mm square metal profile with 6 mm round profiles to construct the framework. Fabric or leather has been used to make the cushions.
Cinar armchair has different versions as without the armrest or with two or three seaters.
Coo chair 1959
Coo chair has been designed as dining chair with veneered molded plywood seating and backrest. The original chair had black painted timber feet.
Coo dining chair has been modified to be produced also as upholstered in fabric or leather.
Moualla chair 1964
Moualla chair was originally constructed with woven removable seat.
The removable seat can be changed with upholstered, rattan or cow hide covered seating alternatives. The same chair can be used also as an exterior chair constrcuted from teak timber.
Moualla armchair 1964
Youmou 1959
Youmou is a coffe table with glass or timber top and has a shelf on a lower level.
Utch 1964
Utch is a three leg coffe table with glass or marble top which can also be produced as a dining table.
Tube 1964
Tube is a stainless steel based timber or marble topped dining table.
Cross 1961
Cross is a stainless steel based timber or marble topped dining table.
Lines Coathanger 1966
Lines is a wall hanginig coathanger with different versions and sizes of removable hooks, umbrella rests adjustable as wished.
Other furniture creations by Sadi Ozis
Neshet table
Sprit service car
Toufou chair
Rumi woven chair
Bent chair
Wire chair
Scarlett
Tube table
Basket
Bonus collection piece
Bejou Armchair 2011
Design by Neptun Ozis
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