On the occasion of its carte blanche at ARCHIK, Tapicheri brings together a series of five duos connected through chromatic or formal affinities.

One rug, one seat.

Two presences, enough to transform a space.

The rug unfolds a deliberate ground, a surface that both separates and connects. The seat engages the body, inviting it to pause, to settle. From their encounter emerges a minimal typology of the living space, reduced to its essential gestures and freed from all superfluous elements. Each duo functions as an autonomous unit, both sculptural and practical. In its most elementary form, inhabiting begins here.

Together, these ensembles sketch out an interior without walls, proposing a way of inhabiting space based not on accumulation, but on precision: the precision of forms, materials, and distances. Nomadic by nature, these minimalist living spaces can be moved and recomposed.

The exhibition highlights the creations of TAPICHERI, designed by Camille de Villartay: hand-tufted rugs with free-flowing shapes and vibrant colors, conceived as true expressive pieces.

Around these works, a selection of seating pieces enters into dialogue with the rugs, creating sensitive pairings where materials and colors respond to one another. The exhibition thus brings together a curated ensemble of pieces by talented designers such as Axel Chay, Laetitia Perrin, and MVE, as well as publishing houses including Theoreme and Petite Friture, composing an interior landscape in which the rug is no longer merely a support, but a starting point.

Weaving, knotting, assembling: the exhibition explores the net as a gesture, a material, and a language, revealing the full formal, cultural, and sensory richness of this ancestral craft.

The exhibition design is by Superpoly, a project born from the collaboration between artist Antoine Grulier and Thomas Defour. The duo has set up a makeshift camp, that of a fisherman who has cast his nets to weave himself a Mediterranean refuge.

This is an opportunity to showcase the Bendor armchair and the Petit Ribaud the children’s version of the Grand Ribaud chair released in 2020 both created by designer Thomas Defour.
A school of sardines has washed up in the mesh: cushions painted by Antoine Grulier. The Gapeau lamp, designed by the duo and produced by 13 Desserts, is presented in a special edition for the occasion.

The exhibition also features Clément Rougelot’s Bigger Splash mirror and Axel Chay’s Amphore vases.

ARCHIK presents “Les Pierres Sauvages”, an exhibition by designer Thibault Huguet showcasing the results of his research conducted in collaboration with marble-working students at the UNICEM campus. Stone is the main focus of this exhibition, as in the eponymous novel by Fernand Pouillon, architect of the reconstruction of Marseille’s Old Port.

Stone lace, openwork blocks, micro-architecture: the artifacts presented in this exhibition show how a designer collaborates with craftsmen to rediscover a material. By questioning the tools, gestures, and practices of these young marble workers, designer Thibault Huguet imagines new applications for the main character of this exhibition, Villebois stone, which is also wild in many ways.

By hosting this project, ARCHIK continues its commitment to supporting young creators and promoting crossovers between architecture, design, and craftsmanship.

For this exhibition, Thibault Huguet chose to work with Villebois stone, a limestone marked by veins and clay faults, which is both demanding and rich in nuances. The result of research conducted with the UNICEM campus in Montalieu-Vercieu, this material reveals, through cutting and polishing, cloud-like patterns and unexpected visual depth, transforming a modest resource into a true surface for expression.

A variation on a theme, drawing on different skills and materials to reveal the stylistic richness of a classic library item that has fallen into disuse.

This exhibition pays tribute to the graphic universe that has surrounded books for centuries, as well as to the artists who still strive to renew the genre today, thereby preserving the magic of libraries, in contrast to the all-digital world.

A theme that echoes the release of the sixth edition of the Revue, the agency’s annual publication that expresses the founders’ keen interest in printed matter and beautiful books.