Region: Paris & Île de France

VOLTA

Interior Designer

architectes@archik.fr

After an initial training in publishing, Agathe Lavaud’s desire to develop through creation led her to turn to architecture and interior design. After graduating from ESAG Penninghen in 2014 and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marne-la-Vallée, she completed her studies with a semester in Italy. She then joined Renzo Piano Building Workshop, where she obtained her Habilitation à la Maîtrise d’Œuvre en son Nom Propre.

Agathe acquired solid experience at Wilmotte & Associés, Vidalenc Architectes, and Thierry Lemaire Architecture before setting up her own structure in 2016: agence Volta. Volta stands out for its attention to detail and harmonious blend of contemporary and traditional design. Each project is unique and benefits from personalized research in terms of volumes and materials, always guided by the existing context. The result is harmonious, refined spaces that reflect a clear vision of the art of living.

Agathe draws her inspiration from natural materials and the balance between tradition and modernity. Each project is an opportunity to sublimate the existing by choosing textures and volumes in perfect harmony with the site.

Joining ARCHIK was a natural choice. Sharing a common sensibility for beauty and the enhancement of architecture, Agathe finds at ARCHIK an approach that favors the intelligent use of space and the use of timeless materials, in perfect harmony with her values.

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Baptiste LEGUÉ

Interior Designer

architectes@archik.fr

Baptiste Legué trained at ESAG Penninghen in Paris and at St Luc in Brussels. As soon as he left the school, he joined the Franklin Azzi agency. For seven years, he sharpened his curiosity, affirmed his knowledge and confronted the demands of the architect-designer profession.

In 2015, he founded the Atelier Baptiste Legué. He then worked on projects for boutiques, flats, second homes or offices and more recently on a hotel project as well as a museum.

In the projects entrusted to him, the Atelier accompanies its clients from conception to delivery, from the layout of the space to the choice of materials, including furniture recommendations and the recommendation of works of art in galleries, which he particularly likes.

Whatever the use of the space to be designed, the Atelier pays particular attention to the quality of the plan, the fluidity of the circulation, the functionality of the spaces, as well as the context in which it is integrated. The Atelier’s projects all have in common that they are uncluttered, designed with raw materials that are intended to accompany their users over time and facilitate their use.

He shares with ARCHIK common values, a sensitivity to beauty and materials with a concern for detail and respect for the history of the spaces he renovates.

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PARIS DESIGN WEEK

9th – 18th  September 2021

ARCHIK loves architecture, art and design. And so it is only natural that it should join the Marais path of Paris Design Week PDW21, from 9th to 18th September 2021.

An open-air show created in 2011 by Maison&Objet, Paris Design Week has become a must-attend event for the general public, design experts and professionals. For 9 days, a selection of galleries, museums and emblematic brands offer ephemeral exhibitions, openings and meetings around design.

From 9th to 18th September 2021, our Maison ARCHIK Paris opens its doors to the public, highlighting the work of 5 young designers, all winners of the Design Parade Hyères.
The exhibition “Echoes”, organised in partnership with the Villa Noailles, the Cirva and the Musée Borély in Marseille, presents sculptures, creative research and everyday objects by designers Samy Rio, Pernelle Poyet, Julie Richoz, Sara de Campos and Carolien Niebling.

Each object presented is a bridge between ideas, know-how and worlds. Design becomes a bridge between tradition and modernity, form and colour, drawing and volume.

The Designers

Pernelle Poyet
Through her Autels Particuliers, Pernelle Poyet questions the evocative power of objects. Her sculptures, creative experiments inspired by the religious and the play of light and shadow, seek to transcribe elements of drawing into volume.

Julie Richoz
How can design and its production techniques translate the finesse and nuances of a drawing? To what extent can they take a new look at an age-old skill? This is the bridge that Julie Richoz has chosen to explore: her Giro ceramics made in Fez with the publisher Trame are the fruit of an enchanting balance between modern vision and traditional craft.

Samy Rio
Samy Rio is also committed to using design as a mouthpiece for know-how. With his Dota walker, published by ARCHIK, he confronts bamboo and anodised aluminium, in other words tradition and modernity. The bamboo is worked by hand until it becomes a perfect tube, giving the piece a contemporary look, and underlining the precision of the manual work and the potential of a natural and ecological material.

Sara de Campos
This deep concern for detail, durability and functionality is also found in Sara de Campos. Since Lisbon, the designer has been developing a series of objects and furniture that demonstrate a sensitive approach to materials and a minimalism that reveals the intrinsic beauty of the material.

Carolien Niebling
In another register, Carolien Niebling uses design to unite the fields of science and food. Her book “The Sausage of the Future” questions the techniques used to produce sausages, which are often equated with junk food, and imagines new future potentials for them, more consistent with a sustainable food culture.

Paris Design Week, a unifying event
under the aegis of the art of living,
dedicated to the young designers.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

From 9th to 18th September 2021 in Maison ARCHIK Paris.
Cocktail on 11th September 2021.

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The Opening

Amandine COQUEREL

Co-founder

+33 (0) 6 81 36 80 10
amandine.coquerel@archik.fr

Always passionate about design and architecture, on the lookout for the latest trends and creations, Amandine, an engineer by training and with a Master’s degree in Marketing from ESSEC, created ARCHIK in 2014. While she has worked for large groups such as LVMH and L’Oréal, she has also tried her hand at various projects before embarking, in Marseille, on this adventure.

The ambition? To put its sensitivity to aesthetics and a certain art of living at the service of others. The young structure has earned its stripes as an essential stop for architecture lovers, collectors of characterful properties and connoisseurs of beautiful materials. With this objective in mind, Amandine has never ceased to enrich ARCHIK with profiles from diverse backgrounds: cinema, art, economy, luxury…

Its catalog, now very selective, has led it to prefer bourgeois apartments revisited by architects, villas with panoramic views and hidden properties with high potential. “ARCHIK is both a city real estate agency and an architecture agency. We cater to lovers of the city, its energy and possibilities.”

With her team, Amandine scours the city for her clients in search of those living spaces that have a signature. “Marseille is in the midst of change, there is a public for these properties, waiting for a flawless service. And they want to be accompanied in their renovation projects!” says Amandine. What could be better than associating an agency and architects? A story that has only just begun!

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Sébastien COQUEREL

Co-founder

+33 (0) 6 83 34 90 69
sebastien.coquerel@archik.fr

Involved in ARCHIK from the beginning as co-founder, Sébastien works on all issues related to strategy, brand positioning and customer relations, as well as administrative and financial matters. His leitmotiv is to ensure ARCHIK’s high-end positioning through the quality of its customer relations. “ARCHIK is a company with structured work processes. And for all the cogs to work, it’s a permanent job that is not necessarily visible to everyone.

Sébastien has experience in this field. He worked for BMW for 10 years, from marketing to communications, including press relations and B-to-B sales, an experience which he applies to real estate. “With a background in a brand known for its rigour and the loyalty of its customers, I learnt what customers’ requirements are. It’s a matter of paying attention at every moment.

ARCHIK is characterised by real differences, “a quality of work, a desire to approach properties through the art of living, to offer a living space rather than square metres and to offer a specialised service by accompanying clients in the renovation of properties thanks to architects, decorators and other designers”.

This is an important specificity according to this fan of Frank Gehry, “an architect-sculptor, who also approaches his field in a different way: starting with an intention, an inspiration, he then imagines the tools necessary to make it real and viable”. According to Sébastien, this is a challenge that requires “evolving with the times, remaining flexible and listening to our clients in order to constantly reinvent ourselves”.

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