The WILD LIFE
Another relationship with the Living Word
Reconnecting with life is an essential act.
A return to what precedes us, transcends us, and binds us together.
The House of 3.8 ALLÉE FAUVE is rooted in a profound relationship with Nature and the animal world.
It regards life as a fundamental dimension — a source of balance, meaning, and responsibility.
To create today is to acknowledge this interdependence.
To design objects that respect the cycles of the living world, and contribute to preserving what makes them possible.
A living interconnection
Each collection of 3.8 ALLÉE FAUVE is intimately linked to an wild Animale.
A feminine figure of the animal world — free, untamed, and foundational.
For each collection, a share of the proceeds supports an organisation committed to protecting the Animale that inspires it — its species, its offspring, or the ecosystem on which it depends.
Thus a continuity takes shape, discreet yet essential,
between the Animale, the creation, and those who carry it.
The Elephante collection financially helps an elephant orphanage in Zambia thanks to the NGO IFAW France.
We thus create an energy loop between the Elephante and us : the energy of the Elephante helps us in our life, on a daily basis or in specific actions, and we help its young when they are orphans. We set up an interconnection inter-species, a powerful link between us.
The elephant orphanage
When poachers kill an Elephant female, her abandoned baby is both in a post-traumatic stress and is in danger of death because s.he needs breast milk.
The orphan elephant calfs taken in at the orphanage are treated, nourished, walked, watched by their “guardians” every day and night. After weaning, when they are between 3 and 5 years old, they join a protected park which rehabilitates them to life with their elephant community. 12 years are necessary to rescue and rehabilitate an orphan elephant calf.
IFAW’s elephant orphanage is the second elephant orphanage in all of Africa.
Animals and Us
The relationship between Animals and Humans is ancient, profound, and infinitely complex.
It transcends any hierarchy.
Animals live in an immediate presence to the world.
They take without excess, inscribe their actions within natural balance, and evolve in symbiosis with their environment. Nothing accumulates unnecessarily: what is relinquished by some becomes a resource for others.
They perceive their surroundings with an acuity that Humans have, in part, unlearned. Their refined sensitivity to rhythms, variations, and imbalances of the living world reflects an intelligence grounded in listening rather than domination.
Like us, they experience the need to feed, to shelter, to protect their offspring.
They feel emotions — joy, attachment, fear, pain — and develop complex social structures. They show empathy toward their peers and seek, as we do, a freedom of movement essential to their equilibrium.
Animals are neither superior nor inferior to Humans.
We are different.
Humans and Animals share the same condition:
that of living beings, interdependent, inhabitants of one single planet — Earth.
Another way to think about Wild Life
This excerpt from the film “Earthlings” offers a compelling perspective on the relationship between Humans and Animals:
“Far from universal nature and evolving in complexity, civilized man observes creatures through the prism of his brain.
We treat their unfinished state with condescension, their form of life below ours, this is where we make a serious error.
Because the animal should not be judged in relation to humans.
In an older and more accomplished world than ours, they evolve in their complete and completed form.
Endowed with a meaning that we have lost or never reached.
They hear “voices” that we will never hear.
They are neither our brothers nor our subordinates.
They represent other nations.”
Earthlings, 2005
Why marine leather was chosen
The choice of materials reflects a vision of the living world.
It expresses responsibility — toward Nature, time, and future generations.
So-called vegan alternatives require careful consideration. At their current stage of development, these materials rely either entirely on synthetic, petrochemical polymers, or on plant-based components stabilised through the substantial use of plastic. Their limited lifespan does not meet the standards of objects conceived to endure.
Precious marine leather presented itself as a natural choice.
Derived from materials originally destined for disposal, it aligns with a demanding approach to upcycling and respect for the natural cycle of life. Unlike traditional exotic leathers, it does not involve breeding or killing an animal solely for its skin.
Comparable in strength to classic leather, marine leather is distinguished by its durability and its capacity to acquire a patina over time. It is a material designed to accompany a lifetime.
Beyond the material itself, this choice carries a symbolic dimension: to honour an animal that contributed to sustaining human life, and to extend its presence through an object of meaning.
3.8 ALLÉE FAUVE remains attentive to material innovations that further advance standards of responsibility, thoughtful design, and deep respect for the living world.