SNEAK PREVIEW OZ499: The end of the countdown reveals the eagerly-awaited website

The website www.oz499.com has been finally released.

The brand new design icon, OZ499, is going to be uncovered in its own peculiar features, playing with a mosaic work of images and texts.

The website raise the curtain on OZ499: a limited edition bike wheel, 500 numbered pieces in the world.

Reservations are possible only through the website http://www.oz499.com/. Thanks to this reservation, people will be able to choose exactly the wheel numbering they want, knowing that it is going to assume the same value as it would in a piece of art.

Every wheel, being exclusive, is going to be numbered. Each single piece will show its exact weight and will bear the date it was made: it is not manufacturing, it’s creation. A precious union between art and technology. Wheel and carbon as symbols of life and perfection, matter and design.

OZ499, result of the synergy between OZ – world leader in the field of light alloy wheels – and Carlesso, bike-industry company from Northeastern Italy, is the new generation’s model of hi-tech creations for those who are able to interpret new forms and matters. A unique, unrepeatable occasion recognizable through new languages.

A second countdown has started: only 500 pieces in the world, purchasable just on line, to come into possession of a unique, one-off art object.

OZ499: COUNTDOWN FOR THE FIRST SPORT-DESIGN COLLECTION

On Monday 12th of May 2008 started the countdown for OZ499, a new generation’s model of hi-tech creations for sport, with a DNA that raise them up as design icons.

Result of the synergy between OZ – world leader in the field of light alloy wheels – and Carlesso, bike-industry company from northeastern Italy, OZ499 is a joint effort outcome on a research for new materials and technologies. This project was launched last autumn and will be completed next August with the presentation of the first example.

“A world-beating creation – declared the managers of the two companies - an extraordinary fusion of art and sport that will talk the language of a new modernity not only to sportsmen but also and above all to enthusiasts, collectors and sector’s lovers”.

At the moment the two companies are maintaining the utmost reserve on the brand-new work, but they announced that further information will be released on-line starting from the 31st of May on www.oz499.com

The web address is already operative, with a big countdown that shows how much time is missing until the release of the temporary web site. And those who would like to be up-to-date about the event will be able to get news preview just registering on the apposite on line form.



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Veruschka Mazzuia
OZ499 Press Office

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