Region: Marseille & Provence

Caroline CACCIATORE

Interior Designer

architectes@archik.fr

With a degree in urban planning and real estate law, Caroline worked for 12 years on urban renewal and renovation of run-down housing in downtown Marseille, before devoting herself to her passion for design and decoration.

With a background in space design and after numerous real estate projects, she created her agency to put her passion at the service of her clients and create with them custom-made, timeless and graphic spaces.

In her work, Caroline favors the combination of natural and living materials that patinate with time, as well as neutral tones. She likes to emphasize the shapes and architectural uniqueness of certain elements with bright and contrasting colors, in order to create a soft and warm atmosphere. Finally, she attaches particular importance to creating custom-made spaces that are functional and adapted to the occupants’ lifestyle in order to provide them with well-being in their daily lives.

Cultivating a particular attraction to the modern movement with its minimalist lines and raw materials, she believes in the continuity between art, design and architecture and the mixing of styles.

So naturally, she got closer to ARCHIK and its family spirit. And accompanies you in your renovation projects in Marseille with determination and rigor.

CARO INSPI 5

This duplex apartment in the heart of the Antiquaires district, is representative of a classic 18th century architecture. It is also a real jewel of historical heritage, perfectly preserved, which was waiting to be revitalised with a more contemporary touch. Revamped by the interior designer Chrystel Laporte, it is the result of a bold gamble: to bring a modern touch to an upper middle-class setting and turn it into a welcoming family flat.

Target

Transforming a flat occupied by a couple into a family flat, making the spaces more functional and personalised, creating a large family kitchen, access to the unused terrace, creating a new bathroom upstairs.

Course of action

To preserve the charm while modernizing; to bring lightness despite sometimes, little bit loaded elements; to emphasize what makes the flat unique; to be graphic and surprising by creating contrast.

Achievement

We simplified the existing ornamentation by working with whites and light to enhance it. We renovated the beautiful wood floors, with a more contemporary matt finish. We added more contemporary elements, such as the striated glass on the doors and cement tiles, but still respectful of the style of the architecture. To access the terrace, we designed an arty staircase, in a bright color responding to the immaculate white kitchen. To create contrast, was placed the ultra-contemporary kitchen directly on inlaid parquet, and the light and airy lighting fixtures were chosen to soften the heavy ceiling. We rekindle the terrace with masonry benches, cactus, and white walls, giving to it a nice Mediterranean feel.

A beautiful re-birth!

L'ARCHITECTE TRAVIATA

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In the heart of Mazargues, the exterior of this apartment was already structured by its shape but never really invested. A challenge in only 50 m2!

Target

The exterior of this apartment, located close to the hills of Marseille, was already structured by its shape but never invested. It consisted of a wooden terrace that covered the entire space, and on the side, an outdoor shower/mini pool to cool off in the summer. It was essential for the clients to protect themselves from the opposite side of the house, to occupy this exterior as a real additional living room. A challenge in only 50m².

Course of action

Vegetate the whole space, but also create real distinct living spaces.

Achievement

The shower/mini pool area has been rethought in the choice of materials, a square blue Onyx mosaic has been put in place, to allow this element visible from the living room, to be an “object” highlighted summer and winter. The low wall separating it from the terrace was widened to provide a comfortable seat on both the shower/mini pool side and the terrace side. Facing this element, a module in waxed concrete and red cedar comes to dress the wall until now unoccupied and is broken up of several elements: air conditioner cover, summer kitchen and large masonry bench. These elements allow the installation of a lounge area, to spend convivial moments from the arrival of the beautiful days.

To protect the terrace from the opposite side, the openwork red cedar and metal screens close the terrace on the hillside without depriving the owners of the green view. The colors of the landscape are also found on the terrace: shades of green/gray for the plants, Ravel pottery in white terracotta, and a planter in earth fiber. Even the choice of furniture (Fermob and Arkimueble) links the different shades of the hills and the sea that is so dear to them.

Finally, a custom-made awning protects the entire length of the terrace and custom-made seat cushions have been designed in nautical fabrics, all made to measure for optimal comfort.

A renovation that smells like summer!

LE QUARTIER

Mazargues

A real village in the city, it has kept this spirit around its shopping streets.

L'ARCHITECTE COTE OUTDOOR

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Un jour d’avril

Interior Designer

architectes@archik.fr

Chrystel and Nicolas, interior designers for the agency “Un jour d’avril”, are passionate about design, color and custom furniture design. They have both worked in the advertising sector, one in art direction and the other in editorial design. They work in Marseille and its surroundings as well as in Paris.

Un Jour d’Avril, an agency founded in 2008, became an ARCHIK partner in 2016. The agency renovates and refurbishes interiors with a founding principle: “A place tells a story that we seek to respect. We share with ARCHIK a certain idea of style and respect for places.”

Their strong ideas? To use constraints to turn them into assets, to play with colors and perspectives and always to imagine a strong and creative element. Charming houses typically from Marseille, beautiful bourgeois apartments or more contemporary spaces, no interior escapes their enthusiasm and their ideas.

Creative and inspired, Chrystel and Nicolas can choose to divert furniture, materials and create surprise by details “in order to place the attention where it should be”.

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In the heart of the Carré d’Or hides this unsuspected garden level. Left abandoned for a long time and split in two by a wall, it was the result of a long renovation.

Target

To find a ‘real garden’ and to be able to embrace the space in its entirety from the house.

Course of action

Structuring the space into two distinct functional areas: a garden area and a parking area. The two spaces being on two different levels.

Achievement

In the garden area, the existing plants have been deliberately preserved and enhanced. The existing plant palette was already diversified and interesting: apricot tree, laurel, olive tree, medlar tree, almond tree, etc. The beds were simply restructured with perennials and lower plants (agaves, stipa, creeping rosemary, thyme, gaura, etc.) and delimited by corten steel, in order to highlight them. The lighting of these beds has also been designed to give perspective to the garden and verticality to the existing limestone walls. The central space is grassed, hosting a beautiful tree with light and evergreen foliage (false pepper tree). It also allows to reduce the vis-à-vis from the upper floors of the building. All around, a large terrace in exotic wood offers various living spaces: garden furniture, dining area, etc.

The difference in level with the parking space is managed by a wooden step in the extension of the terrace and in the almost total width of the garden. In order not to have a continuous view of the bottom of the garden, we have created a white concrete screen made to measure, with an openwork pattern, reminiscent of those already present on the ironwork in place. This element becomes the masterpiece of this garden.

A true haven of peace in the heart of downtown Marseille!

LE QUARTIER

Périer – Delibes

An extension of the very chic Carré d'Or, Périer is one of the most sought-after neighborhoods...

L'ARCHITECTE COTE OUTDOOR

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“FOLLE ENVIE” Studio MARCEL POULAIN X Relax Factory

January 2022 – May 2022

For this occasion Clémence Plumelet and Geoffrey Pascal present in the former bishopric of Toulon “The dried out case of a pool from another time that gives way to a stay where relaxation is the key word. Between memories of the Riviera of yesterday and the projection of an idealized villa, where the languor of a steamy afternoon invites you to take refuge in this sunny pool with floating furniture lined with sponge. The Mediterranean, like a spring promise of warmth and light where water is only a suggestion.

Discover this poetic space that invites you to disconnect, a refuge that fulfills the function of a lounge-bar where the world of games is evoked by the terrycloth backgammon board. Guess the references to Jacques Deray’s La Piscine, where we discovered the superbly designed Gae Aulenti garden furniture. A unique creation deploying a total approach: light, sound and smell to live an immersive design experience.

Maxence Moutte and Givaudan will intoxicate you with their “Winter Sun” fragrance created for the occasion: “The freshness of sage and rosemary from the garrigue infused in a liqueur of plum, orgeat syrup and bourbon for a cocktail with a languid warmth like a winter afternoon sun in the Mediterranean.”

The evening was in full swing thanks to L’idéal and its delicious Mediterranean buffet with products selected with heart, thanks to the Manguin Distillery and its olive-based cocktail and to Roxane our bar-made of the evening.

Studio MARCEL POULAIN

Clémence Plumelet graduated from Duperré school in textile design, leaves for the Netherlands in 2015 to join the prestigious Design Academy of Eindhoven where she meets Geoffrey Pascal.

Together they founded the MARCEL POULAIN Studio which combines their desires to preserve artisanal and industrial know-how as object and textile designers. Each project is initiated by the search for a scenario that echoes memories of the collective memory, on which is grafted a material, then a form, and finally the case to accommodate them.

The initial story guides them throughout this process to create a discussion between the place and the objects that animate it in a multisensory approach.

Relax Factory

Fascinated by 50’s and 60’s design, Jean-Baptiste Moutte puts his talent and his requirement for the revival of old furniture.

A meticulous and perfectionist upholsterer, he has been giving a second life to vintage furniture since 2007 in the Relax Factory workshop. With the taste of beautiful things, defended since his beginnings, he revisits the classics in a clever mix of textures, colors and materials down to the smallest detail, in an approach of quality and durability.

Antique dealers, collectors, amateurs and institutions call upon his know-how and his precision to take care of their piece, or for an accompaniment for their project, such as the Villa Noailles, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris or the Twenty First Gallery in New York…

Dive into the colorful, playful and timeless universe
of the MARCEL POULAIN studio!

INFORMATION

Dates

From January 28th 2022 to April 28th 2022 at Maison ARCHIK Marseille

Designers

@marcelpoulainstudio
@relax_factory

Partenaires

Élitis I Givaudan I Distillerie Manguin I Mobilier National I Hyptnotik I la Villa Noailles I  Apsara créations I Hwood ébiniste I Matelas Pour Tous I Ar Sculpt I AD Lucem I PHC Expert I Alessi  I Serena Confalonieri I Atelier George I Vanessa de Saint Seine I La Serviette Paris I Quadrissimo

The Exhibition

Renovation of a typical apartment of the 60s. Bright, located on a whole floor at the corner of 2 streets, it originally had 3 bedrooms, a shower room, a bathroom and a kitchen. Bought by a couple, one bedroom was removed to create instead a beautiful living space.

Target

To give character to an apartment that didn’t have much. Favouring a large living space, very luminous, where the various pieces of furniture of the owners, keen on design of the 50s and 60s, will be highlighted. Renovate the whole, in its juice, with short perspectives, and with dark and not very functional rooms of water.

Course of action

Destructure to restructure. Open up the spaces as much as possible, but restructure them by using cross-cutting woodwork, giving onto both the hallway and the living room for example, or onto the hallway and the kitchen. Re-open and lengthen the perspectives, bet on white (the majority of the woodwork) and on pretty materials with soft, subtle tones: light terrazzo for the kitchen, slightly marbled tiles for the shower room, matt white tiles, almost chalky for the large bathroom…

Achievement

Except for the 2 bedrooms and bathrooms, all the partitions have been removed. For the most part, they were replaced by custom-made woodwork. For example, the wall of the corridor was replaced by a large bookcase, located in exactly the same place, but which lets the light pass. A lot of work was done on the parquet floor, which was entirely renovated and completely redone in some rooms where there was none left. The kitchen was enlarged to the maximum, with the same principle of “crossing” furniture giving on the corridor. The two bedrooms were optimized by creating custom dressings at the head of the bed. A very graphic joinery work marks the entrance, and gives a strong personality, in contrast to the rest of the essentially white joinery.

A renovation that gives pride of place to materials and light.

LE QUARTIER

Périer – Delibes

An extension of the very chic Carré d'Or, Périer is one of the most sought-after neighborhoods...

L'ARCHITECTE Un jour d’avril

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Autrement with Dimitri Felouzis

November 2021 – January 2022

As part of the launch of its REVUE N°3, ARCHIK presents this autumn 2021 ``Autrement``, an exhibition dedicated to eco-responsible design, revealing the work of innovative and committed designers. In Marseille, Dimitri Felouzis unveils ``Grume``, his minimalist and upcycled furniture collection

Each year, ARCHIK shares its vision of the city, architecture, crafts and design in its REVUE. This year’s edition, No. 3, is dedicated to the theme of “Paris Autrement”, a world away from a Paris of light, and aims to help you discover initiatives, places and actors who contribute to raising awareness and responding to current ecological issues.

On this occasion ARCHIK has decided to highlight the work of two committed designers who question traditional modes of consumption and manufacture through the use of discarded materials and a global eco-responsible approach.

In Marseille, Dimitri Felouzis, architect and designer, unveils “Grume”, his exclusive collection of furniture made from reused wood, in a natural scenography that evokes the cycle of matter.

Using wood frames and pieces sourced within a 30 km area around his workshop in Montpellier, the designer creates chairs, benches and stools that are both minimalist and contemporary. The amount of energy needed to transform the wood is optimised and the hand tool is favoured. A second life is thus given to the material, whose traces of the past are deliberately left visible to indicate its origin.

Dimitri Felouzis

Dimitri Felouzis is an HMONP architect and designer. He focuses his practice on the small scale: from the manufacture of single pieces to the renovation of old buildings, through the creation of dwellings in harmony with their environment. Attached to local resources and vernacular know-how for their intelligence, his work explores the ecological dimension of the material to rethink everyday space as close as possible to those who live in it.

The Grume seats tell the story of the variations of the material, expressing its entire life cycle. They are also a commitment to a localized and resilient craft against the current modes of overproduction.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

From November 4, 2021 to January 15, 2022 in Maison ARCHIK Marseille

Designer’s website

atelierdfa.com

@dimitrifelouzis

The Exhibition