Isidore codron biography
Isidore, a designer and eco-friendly furniture publisher
Here is an innovative concept that deserves our attention: a designer and eco-friendly furniture publishing house !
This publishing house was born from the collaboration between two men: Jacques-Alexandre Habif, entrepreneur at heart and convinced of the usefulness of design in the conception of a product, and Didier Codron, passionate about design, his designs having already received several awards.
Their common desire: to create designer furniture that respects the environment:
Long-standing professional partners, Jacques-Alexandre and Didier have the same philosophy, the same vision. It is obvious for them to offer quality designer furniture, beautiful and useful, comfortable and respectful of the environment. All made in France of course.
Isidore designs, develops and manufactures designer furniture in France, the particularity of which is modularity. The concept is that a product can have multiple functions, multiple lives and destinations at the same time.
In my opinion, this is what makes Isidore designer furniture sustainable. It adapts to changing needs and expectations, so its lifespan is naturally longer. Here is an aspect of eco-design that is not often mentioned.
What is eco-friendly furniture?
According to the creators of Isidore, an eco-friendly product is both ecological and economical. The materials used are recyclable, the distribution circuit is a short one, thus optimizing unnecessary transport and, in addition, making it possible to offer an economically interesting product.
An example of an eco-friendly product, the 8:
Both an armchair and a sun lounger, all you have to do is transpose the feet to go from an armchair to a sun lounger, and vice versa.
Made of wood and organic resin, the 8 armchair can be completed, in addition to a wide choice of colors, with cushions and headrests.
To know more: design and eco-friendly furniture Isidore
Sephardi Synagogue, Jewish quarter, Rodos. (Michel Botman Photography July 2009)
The story of Laura Codron by Noah Botman, June 2010.
There are few places on earth more beautiful than the island of Rhodes. This sacred island of the Greek god Helios is overflowing in ancient sights and bathed in glorious sunlight. The serene feeling of the warm Mediterranean on your feet and the vibrant cloak of colours surrounding you add every aspect of bliss to this island Shangri-La. For over 400 years a Jewish community thrived here. On July 19th 1944, 1900 Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Among them was a 17 year old girl named Laura Codron.
Above: Photo of Laura’s grand parents, Papou Mousani and Granny Rivca Codron. According to Laura, to the left is her cousin Perla Levi, and at the back, her uncle, Isidore Sonsol, holding Laura’s brother Maurice. Laura’s parents, brother and sister were all killed in Nazi Germany concentration camps.
Young Jewish girls from Rodos before the war.
Only 151 Rodos Jews survived the Nazi camps – out of a population of about 1900. Laura Codron is the first cousin of my maternal grandmother, and I had the experience of learning of her story last summer, when my family and I decided to retrace our roots to Greece, Israel and Turkey. On our last day on Rhodes, my grandmother took me to the Jewish cemetery, where she showed me the tombstone of her grandmother. On the tombstone, there was an additional inscription, written in Italian. It turns out that after the war, Laura returned and engraved a message on her grandmother’s tombstone, to commemorate the deaths of her parents, sister, and brother. The incredible part is that, even though there are hardly any Jews left in Rhodes, that tombstone will hopefully last for millennia. Ironically, the tombstone is the written proof of Laura’s survival. It is her testimony.
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Above: Ancient tombstone, Jewish cemetery, Rodos (Michel Botman Photogra 1Pakistan armed forces were, in 1947, unified both by their officers’ training at the British Raj’s academies and by their absolute faith in the new state and its cultural basis, Islam1. This sharply contrasts with the highly divided army to which the secessionist state of Bangladesh gave birth at the time of its independence in 1971. Indeed, from the onset, two major specificities distinguished the Bangladeshi army from its counterparts in other South Asian countries. 2Firstly, the Bangladeshi army was not a direct legacy of British colonial military culture but the result of a 'Liberation War'. The group who led this war was highly heterogeneous – rebel officers, privates and civil militiamen recruited by nationalist and Marxist parties – and divided into multiple revolutionary cells and political factions. Moreover, it never formally acknowledged Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Mujib), the 'father of the nation', as the legitimate leader of the new state. Consequently, when Bangladesh emerged as an independent state it faced an uneasy situation: on the one hand, most of the military elite was not integrated into the power structure, but rather ideologically contested it, and on the other hand, it was considered with suspicion by the first head of state, Mujib (1971-75). 3The second unique quality of the early Bangladeshi army lies with the fact that the Independence war itself had generated strong inequalities and additional divisions within its ranks. Participants in the war (the 'freedom fighters') received honours, privileges and promotions, favours denied to the 'repatriated' – those who willingly or forcefully stayed in West Pakistan during the conflict – upon their return in 1973. After Mujib's assassination in 1975 nevertheless, repatriated Bengali officers (around 60% of the armed forces then), initially polarised against him .I. From the mukti bahinis to the Bangladeshi army and the first military takeover: The origins of the army's structural instability