Hors-norme is an experiment carried out inside an industrial process: hot-dip galvanizing, the immersion of steel parts in a bath of molten zinc, a process normally reserved for heavy industry. The project introduces what its norm excludes: furniture modules made of very thin sheet metal, down to 0.5 millimetres. A series of five identical volumes, each thinner than the last, approaches the threshold beyond which an object would not come back from the bath fit to use. None of them gave way. Designed to protect, galvanizing becomes here an event: it deforms the metal and freezes it in its most vulnerable form. The project questions what industry calls a "defect": not a property of the object, but the verdict of a value system. Between the conforming object and the rejected one, it reveals a third state: non-conforming, and yet fully functional .