Region: Marseille & Provence

À l’extérieur, la terrasse bordée de sa balustrade historique se transforme en véritable belvédère sur le paysage. Le jardin, généreusement planté d’essences méditerranéennes, laisse entrevoir de multiples possibilités d’aménagement, où une piscine pourrait naturellement trouver sa place dans le prolongement de cette architecture.

Cette bastide dévoile surtout une remarquable capacité de réinvention. Les projections proposées illustrent une restauration contemporaine respectueuse de son identité, où la noblesse des matériaux, la sobriété des lignes et l’ouverture sur le paysage révèlent toute la force de son architecture d’origine.

Remarkable architecture from the 1960s, this Californian villa is at the heart of a modernist project that has been awarded the “Patrimoine du XXème” label, on its 800 m2 plot in a wooded park at the gateway to the Calanques. A project with character designed by the Marion Bernard architectural firm.

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Target

Preserve the soul of this single-storey Californian villa, while renovating and enlarging it to adapt it to contemporary uses. Enhance its emblematic architecture and strengthen its link with the surrounding countryside.

Course of action

The renovation was carried out with a view to preserving the original architectural features, while adding modernity and comfort. The Fontvieille stone and hollow brick facade, sliding wooden shutters and low stone walls were carefully restored. Inside, the horizontal fireplace in brick and Cassis stone and the large terrazzo floor have been restored to their former glory.

Achievement

On the south side, the sleeping quarters are distributed on either side of the entrance hall by a corridor punctuated by typical 60s storage units.

To the north-west, the living areas are arranged in a row along the terraces, one of which is extended by a swimming pool in the shade of tall umbrella pines. Each extension of the house has been designed as a continuity towards the outside, with terraces allowing you to take full advantage of the surrounding nature. The living room, dining room and kitchen all open out onto the landscape, allowing for total immersion in the natural environment.

 

Partner brands :

Micro terrazzo and terrazzo: Var Ponçage
Tiles: Carré Créatif
Sanitary equipment: Richardson / Trone
Brazilian quartzite worktops: Granit & Marbre Gambini
Woodwork: Rabot
Furniture and artwork: Axel Chay / Relax Factory / Pièce a part / Francois Bazin / Architectureceramique / Archik
Paint: Ressource Peintures
Bed linen: La Serviette Paris
Handles: Frederic Pellenq
Travertine: Talka

Original plans & project

Modernist architecture immersed in nature, close to sea and hills

L'ARCHITECTE LA LÉZARDIÈRE

  • Crédits photosJulie Fleutot
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EX LIBRIS I 10 ANS ARCHIK

Septembre – Décembre 2025

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, ARCHIK invited 10 artists and designers to revisit the same object: the bookend. Exclusive editions are presented at our Marseille headquarters through the group exhibition Ex Libris.

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.

Les artistes

A selection of 10 artists and designers who have made or will make a significant contribution to the history of ARCHIK :

Anthony Guerrée

Architecture Céramique (Frédéric Bourdiec)

Atelier George (Ève George & Laurent Fichot)

Capucine Guhur

Charlotte Juillard

Corpus Studio (Ronan Le Grand & Konrad Steffensen)

Romie Objett (Alice Damiens)

Sabourin Costes (Zoé Costes & Paola Sabourin)

StudioFoam (Caroline Venet)

Thibault Huguet

Since 2015, ARCHIK has been exploring the links between real estate, architecture, and design: ten years of collaborations that shape a collective vision of the Art of Living.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Opening reception on Thursday, September 18, 2025, starting at 7 p.m.

Exhibition open from September 18 to December 31, 2025.

No appointment necessary, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Maison ARCHIK Marseille
50, rue Edmond Rostand — Marseille 13006

Photo credits
@chaleur.production

LE CHANT DES VESTIGES I LDG ART & PATRIMOINE

Juin 2025

ARCHIK is hosting “Le Chant des Vestiges”, a group exhibition conceived by gallery owner Laetitia de Galzain, founder of the LDG Art & Patrimoine gallery.

Manon Garcia del Barrio, artist and textile designer, and La Fille de Tipaza, ceramic artist, invite us into a silent world of materials and textures, white noise and memory.

Sharing a common source of inspiration, the Mediterranean, the two artists offer us an immersion into times long gone, which each of us can approach at our own pace, explore with our eyes, and bring back traces of: fragments of pottery, antique notebooks, treasures from the sea, delicate silhouettes, and majestic forms covered in seaweed and moss.

Carried by the words of Isabelle Alentour, poet of intimacy, the works take shape and voice, revealing life where everything seemed destined to disappear in a subdued, whispered world, where only resistant forms remain.

Les artistes

Manon Garcia del Barrio – textile artist
Manon Garcia del Barrio lives and works in Marseille. She weaves sensitive works from natural fibers and recycled materials, combining textiles, storytelling, and memory. With strong ties to the sea, her work explores the links between materials, territory, and transmission. A graduate of HEAR, she recently completed a residency in Nigeria and exhibited at the Marseille History Museum.

Isabelle Alentour – poet
Born in Marseille, Isabelle Alentour comes from a background in scientific and clinical research. Her poetic writing, nourished by listening and wonder, extends artistic gestures with a hushed, whispered voice. She regularly collaborates with visual artists.

La Fille de Tipaza – ceramic artist
Delphine Picard, alias La Fille de Tipaza, creates ceramic pieces imbued with silence and memory. Inspired by the Mediterranean and the poetry of Albert Camus, she shapes clay with a raw and instinctive sensitivity, making the material the vehicle for an emotion rooted in intimacy and landscape.

Portrait © Caroline Duperray

An exhibition that plunges us
into the abyssal depths of the Mediterranean.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Opening reception on Thursday, June 26, 2025, starting at 7 p.m.

Exhibition open from June 26 to September 8, 2025.

No appointment necessary, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Maison ARCHIK Marseille
50, rue Edmond Rostand — Marseille 06

Instagram of the Galerie

@ldg.art.patrimoine

Instagram of Artists

@lafilledetipaza
@manon.garciadelbarrio
@isabellealentour

L’ÉCRIN I MARIE JEUNET

April 2025

ARCHIK welcomes “L'ECRIN”,
an ode to matter imagined by Marie Jeunet.

In the teeming landscape of contemporary design, Parisian artist-designer Marie Jeunet stands out for her luminous sculptures that transcend materials and capture the essence of light. Her delicate, sensitive work magnifies materials such as glass, brass and stone, revealing their singularity through a subtle play of reflections, giving life to hypnotic luminaires conducive to reverie.

These refined creations play on illusion: glass that looks smooth yet is full of history, rigid brass that turns out to be supple, the false lightness of a stone piece…

To stage her exhibition “L’ECRIN”, Marie Jeunet turned to Casamance, a benchmark in fabric publishing. The brand is renowned for its finely crafted fabrics, reflecting expert know-how. For this exhibition, Marie chose a Mennagio mordoré taffeta with a brittle, refined fall.

The Relax Factory tapestry workshop was responsible for the décor, creating a refined space that plays with the drapery of the fabric to evoke the delicate folds of a jewel case, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in a universe that is both raw and sophisticated.

The artist

Passionate about the decorative arts and jewelry, Marie Jeunet imagines her works as interior jewels that, once illuminated, reveal the beauty of the materials they’re made of.

Her unique approach, on the border between art and design, and her attention to detail, make each piece a truly precious object, imbued with sensitivity and grace. A delicate balance, a subtle blend of minimalist forms and dreamlike projections.

Portrait @Esther BARON

A poetic universe where each sculpture becomes an interior jewel

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Opening on Thursday, April 10, 2025 from 7pm

Exhibition from April 11 to June 20, 2025
No appointment necessary, Monday to Friday, 9am – 6pm

Maison ARCHIK Marseille
50, rue Edmond Rostand – Marseille 6

Designer’s Instagram

@__mariejeunet__

Partners

@casamance
@relaxfactory
@pure&paint

Photograph

@estherbaronwall

FE + C

September 2024

To coincide with the release of Revue N°5 on the theme of Metal, ARCHIK extends its tribute to this material to Marseille and presents Fe + C, an exhibition by memòri studio.

The physical embodiment of La Revue N°5’s “Objects of Covetousness” column, the memòri studio has reproduced the interior of the director of the insurance firm “Fe + C”, a design enthusiast and creative genius with avant-garde ideas.

In the 1980s, he designed furniture for his offices. The man who seemed eccentric at the time had an unusual metal set made by an industrialist: bookcase, desk, wall lamps and coffee table.

He’s as passionate about the brilliant shine of alloys as he is about manual activities; he gathers his clay, his pigments and experiments. The result is an extravagant yet extraordinarily beautiful interior where materials and textures come together. He paints his walls a self-made brick-red color reminiscent of iron mines.

Les artistes

Founded in 2020, memòri is a creative studio that brings together different craft disciplines with the aim of constantly questioning practices and their transmission. It’s an ode to singular traditions, to know-how rooted in the Mediterranean basin, with the desire to reactivate collective memories to make them alive and current again.

On the borderline between the production of objects in very small quantities and the creation of a wardrobe of unique pieces, the exploration continues with a selection of 20th-century design objects and furniture. The studio works in these different fields, with the sole aim of integrating a craftsman’s approach and a sustainable approach to manufacturing and production.

Between invention, design and utopia, this dreamy, imaginative, manual creator is inhabited and tortured by a whirlwind of singular ideas.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Opening on Thursday, September 19, 2024 from 7pm

Exhibition on view from September 19, 2024 until the end of 2024

Open Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6.30 pm, by appointment only

Maison ARCHIK Marseille

Designers’ Instagram

@memori.studio_

Photos Credits

@noelmanalili_studio

TOPLESS

July 2024

Une exposition sans « Seinsure » avec comme seul mot d’ordre
FREE THE NIPPLES !

Ah, the breast… it fascinates us all! Censored or flaunted, it’s a symbol of femininity, an emblem of maternity, an object of desire and a symbol of emancipation. For centuries, the breast has attracted the attention of artists, so it’s only natural that designers should take their turn.

ARCHIK therefore invited Ekhi Busquet & Matthieu Vergote, Axel Chay, Manon Delaune and Tapicheri to bring their naughty creations together in a fun, no-holds-barred group show in a Californian-style villa under the pines.

Humor may be the most obvious key to this day, but it’s by no means the only one! Through their productions and their respective commitments, these five creative minds are striving for a meaningful Beau by donating part of the profits to various associations in the fight against breast cancer. More than ever, creativity is a barrier to all forms of “Seinsure”, so there’s only one watchword: FREE THE NIPPLES!

Les artistes

EKHI BUSQUET & MATTHIEU VERGOTE

Celebrating joyful, creative femininity, artistic director and designer Ekhi Busquet joins forces with Matthieu Vergote to present their “Seins-Tropez” pairs of parasols in a 4-handed collaboration! A great way to put your boobies in the shade this summer.

 

AXEL CHAY

A designer with a radical aesthetic, he offers 2 interpretations of the breast in evocative shapes. A pair of SEIN mirrors, captivating pieces that emotionally enrich the space, and a pair of CONSUL chairs whose “Prière de toucher” wafer was imagined with Relax Factory, in homage to Marcel Duchamp’s work for the surrealism exhibition at the Maeght gallery in 1947.

 

MANON DELAUNE

A multi-disciplinary artist, Manon loves the warm, vibrant colors of Marseille. She presents her photographs “Clarté Intime” & “Écho hésitant”, with their play of shadows, texture and skin. Also featured is “Vestige d’un élan”, or the capture of an impulse, a fleeting moment.

 

TAPICHERI

A French brand founded by interior designer Camille de Villartay, Tapicheri presents a fun, offbeat rug, imagined with the complicity of Décodeur: BOOB, a bold, playful creation in soft pastel colors.

 

La Case Study House

Remarkable architecture from the 1960s, located at the gateway to the Calanques, this 180 m2 Californian villa is at the heart of a modernist project designated as Patrimoine du XXème, designed by Guillaume Gillet & Louis Olmeta and completed in 1974. Still in its original state, the house retains all its original architectural features, such as its Fontvieille stone and hollow brick facade, sliding wooden shutters and opus incertum terrace. Inside, the fireplace, reminiscent of Valentine Schlegel’s, and the large terrazzo floor are waiting to be restored to their former glory.

For the sale of this house, Archik imagined a renovation that would respect this heritage, highlighting the volumes and light circulation of this period architecture.

An original exhibition,

fun and uninhibited!

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

TOPLESS I SUMMER POOL PARTY

July 19, 2024

Case Study House – Marseille

Designers’ Instagram

@ekhibusquet

@matthieuvergote

@axel_chay

@manondelaune_

@tapicheri

With the participation of

@emkipop @savonnerie.ciment @domaineaspras @fermob @laservietteparis @nenesparis @pure_and_paint

 

Photos @manondelaune_

In the heart of Vauban, this townhouse entirely restructured by architect now enjoys an outdoor patio redesigned in a Mediterranean spirit, to enjoy every day.

Objectif

Develop this small area nestled at the back of the house, and bring together all the functions of an exterior, playing on its connection with the large living room.

Ligne de conduite

The intention was to free up the space while integrating it into the interior renovation thanks to the choice of materials, to blur the inside-outside boundary, typical of the Marseilles way of life.

The 4.50 by 2.50 meter freijo wood bay window naturally connects the two spaces.

Mise en oeuvre

The idea was to work with masonry elements to gain space and create rhythm. Basin, benches and planters are directly inserted into the volume of the patio, which is now ready to house the bulk of the summer kitchen. The tree planters in the background break the verticality of the space, and are composed of strelitzia reginae and augusta, aspidistra, and euphorbia ingens and myrsinite.

The strict lines of the elements are mixed with raw and mineral materials in warm tones to invoke the sweetness of Mediterranean living.

While the walls are adorned with a light sand-colored plaster, the floor is entirely covered with tiles made of quartz powder and salmon-colored granite with an aged look by the Italian brand La Pietra Compattata. The southern influence continues in the choice of outdoor furniture, with the custom-made dark brick-colored seat cushions and the terracotta tiled table, made by Honoré.

A summer feeling all year round.

L'ARCHITECTE PIETRA

  • Crédits photosGabrielle Voinot
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