Region: Paris & Île de France

AGATHE MARIMBERT

Architecte HMONP

After studying architecture in Lyon and gaining experience across various cities and cultures—including Lyon, Grenoble, Porto Alegre in Brazil, and Paris—Agathe Marimbert has developed a sensitive approach to architecture that focuses on how spaces are used and the lived experience they offer.

She earned her project management certification while working independently at the Chartier Dalix firm in Paris, before joining REV Architecture, a firm specializing in retail and interior design. This marked a turning point in her career: there, she developed a keen interest in projects on a more intimate scale, where detail, materials, and the way people live take center stage.

In 2017, she founded her firm with the aim of developing architecture that is thoughtful and grounded. Each project begins with a careful analysis of the plans and lifestyles involved. For her, understanding how a space will be used is the starting point for any architectural approach; the formal and aesthetic work follows as a fitting, well-considered, and coherent response.

His inspiration draws on everyday life and travel. But it also stems from an academic heritage shaped by mid-20th-century architecture, particularly American architecture. This was a period when structural rigor and spatial thinking went hand in hand, and when architects designed every element of a project, from the building envelope down to the furniture. This holistic approach continues to inspire his practice.

At her firm, Agathe Marimbert develops residential projects with a distinct identity, as well as spaces designed to be the architectural embodiment of a brand’s world.

In ARCHIK, she has found a partner who shares this vision of architecture, where the unique character of a place and the architects’ vision are fully brought to the fore.

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États de Verre I ATELIER GEORGE – GARNIER & LINKER

Novembre – Février 2023

As part of the launch of its Revue N°4 on the theme of glass, ARCHIK presents an exhibition as a tribute to this timeless, malleable and infinitely reusable material, which has been present in architecture and design for decades.

Atelier George

Atelier George is a duo composed of Eve George and Laurent Fichot, designers and glassblowers. In their workshop, they work together from design to manufacture. Their work includes lighting, tableware and wall tiles, all created using molten glass techniques. Each object of the Atelier is unique: thanks to the mastery of glass blowing, the objects are never reproduced identically.

This exhibition highlights the co-creation of the TANGO edition. ARCHIK invited Atelier George to create a scenography illustrating the glassblowing technique through its new edition as well as a selection of pieces from its collections. The TANGO edition is displayed on a black table with bluish reflections by designer Xavier Montoy. An Arc chair by Pascal Mourgue invites you to sit down. Behind it, a wall weaving by Léa Parraguin echoes the shades of blue of the lights and vases from the Atelier George collections.

Garnier & Linker

The strength of the design duo Guillaume Garnier & Florent Linker lies in their ability to enhance forgotten techniques and to constantly renew their application and aesthetics. This strength also resides in the creative method they have put in place: a hybrid process that borrows as much from design as from craftsmanship and sculpture, and that comes to life between the studio and the workshop.

The Garnier & Linker collection was born of experiments with ancestral materials and know-how. Alabaster, obsidian, volcanic stone, bronze, plaster and solid cast glass: all materials reinterpreted in a contemporary language. Each model is handmade by French master craftsmen.

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The techniques of blown glass and lost wax glass paste are highlighted in this exhibition dedicated to the material of the year: glass.

INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES

Dates

From December 2022 to February 2023
at Maison ARCHIK Paris

Sites des designers

www.atelier-george.fr

www.garnieretlinker.com

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ÉPICÈNE

Architecte d'intérieur

architectes@archik.fr

After a career in publishing, Isabelle Heilmann desire to blossom through creation led her to train in space design at the École Boulle. She then created her agency, Épicène, in 2018, for the double grammatical sense of the term, and creates public and residential projects with a timeless aesthetic. She develops interior architecture sensitive to the history of places, with soft and fluid geometry, in a spirit of lightness that aims to achieve simplicity, elegance, harmony. An open-mindedness due to her multicultural heritage, from Italy to China through India, where Beauty has no borders and is plural.

Its remarkable architecture? The Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice, Louis Kahn’s Exeter Library and Peter Zumthor’s Thermes de Vals : strong creations that have been able to magnify the limitations of the site, and propose a “total” work that is attentive to volumes, uses, choice of materials and even furniture details.

Isabelle finds her inspiration in art, design and travel. She admires the sobriety of Japanese architecture : “everything is beautiful and well thought out, an aesthetic research that integrates the most everyday object. In terms of materials, she prefers raw wood, handmade ceramics, concrete and stainless steel, with which she likes to create compositional sets and unusual associations.

With ARCHIK, she has found an ecosystem composed of aesthetes from different backgrounds united around a common vision of the art of living, to which she fully endorses.

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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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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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Raphaëlle FORMOSA

Marketing and Communication Manager

+33 (0) 6 47 47 83 82
raphaelle.formosa@archik.fr

With her head full of ideas and the desire to sell them, Raphaëlle first plunged into the world of advertising agencies. For ten years, she put all her energy into strategy and creativity for brands. Then, the desire to work more concretely for the daily life of Parisians led her to work for the public service, in the communication department of the RATP.

But at the same time, a new desire took shape: always attracted by decoration and design pieces, she gradually refined her eye and her tastes, with a particular affection for the interior architects Laura Gonzalez and Dorothée Meilichzon, or the designers Charlotte Perriand and India Mahdavi. From decoration, she moved on to renovation: under the spell of the old, she enjoyed rethinking her first flat, then the second. She likes to sublimate the history of places and quickly becomes passionate about detecting the potential of old properties.

In love with a more intimate Paris, always on the lookout for confidential addresses, she admits to being rather “Right Bank”. When she discovered ARCHIK, she was immediately won over by its hybrid positioning between real estate, design and architecture. Naturally, she joined the Paris agency as soon as it opened, as a negotiator. A role that allows her to accompany her clients in their projects, as a true partner on whom her clients can rely.

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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.

@pdw21
@villanoailles
@cirvamarseille
@museesmarseille
@samy_rio
@sara.decampos
@carolienniebling
#pernellepoyet
@julierichoz 

The Opening

Inauguration ARCHIK Paris

June 24, 2021

We have inaugurated our new Maison ARCHIK Paris in the heart of the Marais.

In Paris, located in the heart of the Marais, our new address extends over two floors Solid oak, steel and ribbed glass, materials are the main feature of this 160 m² space which houses our teams and partners. It is furnished and decorated like a flat by brands and designers such as Kann Design, Red Édition, JOA and GOODMOODS.

The Maison ARCHIK Paris hosts ephemeral exhibitions, a curation of design and furniture pieces, and soon exclusive events such as conferences, talks, workshops or chefs’ dinners.

During the inauguration, our walls were dressed by Murs Blancs with the colourful paintings of the duo Baltus & Person, punctuated by the ceramics of Léa Ginac; and in the gallery, the Série 04, Paradis Perdus collection by the Marseille-based designer Margaux Keller, with its variation of seats, vases, and delicately charming glasses, all produced in limited series, putting the South in the spotlight.

Between exhibitions, meetings and sound happening, the evening was warm and rich in exchanges.

PARTNERS

Thanks to the talented @pol.cast who orchestrated the sound happening.

Thanks to @caducee.cafe, @rosacadaques, @designerbox @sparklingpresse for their contribution to this evening.

Thanks to our evergreen partners @mursblancs, @joa.interior, @kann_design, @rededition

Marie CHEMIN

Sales Administration Manager

+33 (0) 6 30 41 42 53
marie.chemin@archik.fr

Since her end-of-study internship in Communication and Marketing at Maison ARCHIK in Toulouse, Marie has not left the adventure: for almost a year, she has been roaming the pink city as a negotiator, before joining Marseille in April 2018, as Sales Administration Manager. A valuable support provided daily to the teams in the three cities.

Right from the start, Maison ARCHIK seduced her for its innovative and meaningful concept… “It’s beautiful, simple and different. Crossing disciplines, highlighting the essence of a place, and perfecting the habitat are values that drive me, which is why I found myself in many codes…”. The work environment corresponds to her personality, which is oriented towards art, design, architecture and aesthetics. It is therefore natural that she immerses herself in this world of global thinking around the habitat.

What does she like about the city? Walking in the street, being attentive to buildings, trying to distinguish flats, inner courtyards, and finding unusual architecture or places. It’s a way for Marie to appreciate the atmosphere of cities, their different neighbourhoods, whether they have the charm of the old like the Carmes and Esquirol in Toulouse, whether they are cosmopolitan like the Vieux Port or Noailles in Marseille, or more historical like the Opéra or Marais districts in Paris. Different neighbourhoods, but lively, each in their own way.

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