Region: Paris & Île de France

Cagnard

June – August 2023

The exhibition that brings together Marseille's new design scene.

“Cagnard” means raw sun, scorched rock and the Corniche in Marseille. A return from the beach, the body numbed by the rays, the skin still salty. And then, a metal bench, refreshing in the scorching air. All around, the blue sky and the Mediterranean soothe the soggy spirits.

This exhibition brings together Marseille’s new design scene. In this scenography halfway between the sidewalks of the Corniche and the rocky depths of the Mediterranean, ARCHIK presents a curation conceived as a concretion of radical, colorful and organic pieces.

The artists

Born on Reunion Island, LÉA BIGOT, a native of Marseilles by adoption, creates sculptures with organic lines inspired by the energies of nature. Somewhere between design and art, her unique, free-form pieces are made in ceramic and pewter.

From their workshop in Marseille, ROMAIN CARLÈS and PAUL DEMARQUET perpetuate a woodworking tradition that is deeply rooted in the Mediterranean art of living. They design modern, timeless, sunny and aquatic furniture and objects, in one-off pieces or limited series.

Born in Nîmes, AXEL CHAY now lives in Marseille. He designs radical, colorful pieces, mostly in metal. Influenced by the Memphis movement, his functional, sculptural designs have already become iconic.

A designer sensitive to curves and drawing, THOMAS DEFOUR lives and works between Hyères and Paris. Lacquered tubular steel, boat-inspired nylon netting, bespoke carved wood, he imagines objects with a post-modern approach and mixes traditional manufacturing methods.

SOPHIA TAILLET finds inspiration in exploring materials. The designer thinks of her functional pieces as sculptures, especially glass, which she shapes as she experiments.

The artists

Originally from south-eastern France, DELPHINE DÉNÉRÉAZ is a visual artist who lives and works in Marseille. With a degree in textile design, she creates pieces using the lirette weaving technique, which consists of creating tapestries from reused domestic fabrics.

France and Caroline have combined their names to create ATELIER FRANCA, a ceramics workshop that revisits codes through handcrafted pieces with pure, organic lines. Their signature: sky-blue, ochre and white earthenware.

Photographers and artistic directors, Steven and Coline of IGO STUDIO evolve in a universe that is both realistic and absurd. They also express themselves through the creation of objects that materially represent their universe, largely inspired by the “Marseilles aesthetic”.

Interior architect and designer MARION MAILAENDER lives and works between Paris and her native city. She imagines bold interiors for hotels, restaurants and private clients, as well as design pieces that combine “fun and function”.

SOUTHWAY STUDIO, an artists’ collective founded in Marseille by Emmanuelle Luciani, is an “unclassifiable” structure that promotes and revisits the decorative arts. SOUTHWAY STUDIO is also a lively, multi-faceted gallery, artist residency and bed & breakfast in the heart of Marseille.

“In a sunny atmosphere, “Cagnard” presents a dozen artists and designers from Marseilles linked by their attachment to the Mediterranean and its territory. An experience of the corniche under the sun embodied by creative people”.

– Milk Decoration

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

From June 1 to September 1, 2023
at Maison ARCHIK Paris

Delphine Dénéréaz represented by Galerie Versant Sud

Axel Chay, Thomas Defour, Sophia Taillet published by 13 DESSERTS

Souvenirs de l’antique I François Bazin

March – May 2023

This exhibition retraces the creative process of the designer who imagined a scenography with a soft and comforting atmosphere, evoking his travel memories.

Through this scenography, François Bazin expresses his vision of a graphic design with pure lines, inspired by plants and architecture. He also pays particular attention to environmentally friendly production methods and the choice of materials he uses. Each object is made by French and European craftsmen, selected for the quality of their work.

Most of the pieces on display were designed for the occasion. Some of them are directly inspired by the discoveries he made during his visits to historical sites. We find the shapes of a column, a fountain or an acanthus leaf. Others come from his observation of nature, like the meridian, inspired by the movement of the waves and the sunset, which the designer contemplates every summer evening.

François Bazin

François Bazin studied at the Versailles School of Architecture, where he deepened his knowledge of classical arts and garden architecture.

Self-taught, he began with drawing, then worked on wood sculpture before creating ceramic pieces. Inspired by nature, he now creates lighting, furniture and small objects for galleries and interior designers, for whom he also creates custom pieces, adapted to each project.

Through an immersive scenography that transports us into a cozy living room inspired by the homes of ancient Greece, François Bazin evokes his memories of travel.

INFORMATION

Dates

From March 9th to May 19th 2023
in Maison ARCHIK Paris

Designer’s website

https://francoisbazinstudio.com/

Varnishing

Agnieszka OPALINSKA

Negotiator

+33 (0) 6 48 02 69 11
agnieszka.opalinska@archik.fr

Graduated in psychology and trained in coaching, Agnieszka has been working for over 15 years in the Warsaw real estate market, first in an agency and then in promotion. In 2008 she decided to open her own agency, focusing on selected properties and quality service.

Because of her Polish roots, Agnieszka is fascinated by socialist realist architecture for its monumental dimension and dignity; but her iconic architectural trend remains modernism, especially when applied to public buildings and private villas. Agnieszka is also passionate about interior design, cooking, jazz and nature. She is inspired by her encounters and everyday life: a shop window she rides past on her bike, the unexpected colours of the tiles in a hotel bathroom, the light coming through a roof window… In terms of materials, she loves wood, synonymous with warmth and conviviality.

Arriving in Paris in 2014, she discovered the profession of property hunter. Through this, she quickly began a collaboration with ARCHIK, sharing the same taste and values. ARCHIK combines everything that is dear to her heart: interiors with a singular style, a keen sense of architecture and design, and finally a unique approach towards clients with a particular attention to their needs. It was therefore only natural that she joined the growing team.

It is now at ARCHIK and in Paris that she puts her taste for beauty and her listening skills at the service of people who wish to find or put up for sale properties with a unique character, and benefit from personalised support.

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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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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

Paradis perdus I Margaux Keller

March – June 2021

``True paradises are the paradises we have lost`` said Marcel Proust in his book Le temps retrouvé.

This is the quote that inspired the Marseille-based designer Margaux Keller for the fourth collection of her eponymous furniture brand.

“This new series is a parade, an imaginary world that seems familiar: a country house in Provence, an orangery, an oasis of wonders, a magnified childhood memory. Open your eyes wide, remember the sweet scent of orange blossoms…”. These are the memories and precious feelings that guided Margaux Keller in the creation of each piece of this very personal collection.

The designer thus highlights her desire to work with artisans who are sensitive to materials and to the emotional dimension that everyday objects provide. A poetry of materials, senses, shapes and lights that allows a sensitive and unique escape.

Margaux Keller

After training at Olivier de Serres, she joined the Ecole Boulle in Paris, from which she graduated in 2010 with honors. Margaux Keller then trained at the Philippe Starck agency, alongside Eugeni Quitllet. In 2011, she was selected to be part of the design team of Fabrica, the Benetton group’s communication research center.
But strong of her attachment to her native city, Marseille, she feels the call of the South. And decided in 2012 to create her own global design agency there, developing a wide range of partnerships with Yves Saint-Laurent Beauté, Bibelo, Roche Bobois, Cartier, Made.com, La Redoute Intérieurs, Habitat, SIA Home Fashion and La Monnaie de Paris. In 2019, she founded her own publishing house Margaux Keller Collections, in association with Anaïs Fretigny.

A publishing house that offers series of furniture and objects in limited edition, made locally by craftsmen with exceptional know-how.

INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES

Dates

Du 22 mars 2021 au 22 juin 2021
à la Maison ARCHIK Paris

Découvrez notre article 

margauxkellercollections.com

Carnations | Caroline Venet

2021

Carnations' is a research work mixing leather and recycled porcelain clay.

This is a limited series of objects and furniture for the home, unique pieces handmade in France, made in collaboration with the ceramist Fanny Richard, the leather worker Aurélie Chadaine, and the tile factory Normandy Ceramics.

The leather scraps, end of series or rejects from the fashion industry, are collected to be revalorized, sublimated by their asperities, irregularities of the skin, scars, natural wrinkles or veins, which make the uniqueness of each object. It is a meeting of materials and know-how, between the suppleness of a leather skin and the velvetiness of hard porcelain or enamelled stoneware.

In order to perpetuate Studiofoam’s enchanting universe, and still in the logic of offering a global product, we have co-published ONDE(S), a limited edition luminous suspension.

Caroline Venet

Caroline Venet created Studiofoam in 2017, which she conceives as a research laboratory. Through this design studio, Caroline proposes a unique interpretation of materials, questions manufacturing techniques and processes, between innovation and traditional know-how. The designer explores the boundaries between art, craft and design. She develops a multiple approach, from experimentation to installation, from material and surface design to product design, set design, scenography and art direction.

It is a meeting of materials and know-how, between the suppleness of a leather skin and the velvetiness of hard porcelain or glazed stoneware.

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INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES

Dates

À partir de Novembre 2020 à
la Maison ARCHIK Paris

Site du Designer

@ studio foam

Saïda VISSER

Negotiator

+33 (0) 6 24 57 10 56
saida.visser@archik.fr

After spending the early part of her career in education—where she enjoyed sparking her students’ curiosity and overseeing educational projects focused on culture for all—Saïda decided to follow her creative instincts and returned to school to study interior design and art history. It was a revelation: she was meant for a more artistic, more creative life—but one that still kept her in close contact with others.

She first tried her hand at small-scale publishing, creating a city guide to Pantin and Le Pré-Saint-Gervais with her friend Stéphanie Antoine, a chef and author of children’s cookbooks. Then she moved into real estate, naturally, driven by a desire to support her clients in this sector she knows so well, as well as with their renovation plans.

Born in Paris, where she grew up, and influenced by her Moroccan heritage, Saïda has a natural sensitivity to scents, textures, colors, and craftsmanship. She is particularly drawn to the art of ceramics and the curvilinear work of Valentine Rosi Mistou and Marion Graux, in which sensuality, the balance of colors, and organic forms fascinate her.

Curious by nature, she enjoys discovering new places with a strong architectural identity, observing even the smallest details, and drawing inspiration from them—much like the architect Fernand Pouillon, who noted that “in architecture, there are no details.”

And so she walked through the doors of the ARCHIK agency—which she discovered in Marseille—to join the adventure and bring to life all the facets of her passions: architecture, real estate, design, craftsmanship, and publishing. And for your enjoyment, thanks to her meticulous guidance !

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Maud HOUVER

Negotiator

+33 (0) 6 47 47 98 36
maud.houver@archik.fr

A native of Strasbourg, Maud grew up with a deep appreciation for vibrant cities. When she arrived in Paris fifteen years ago, she was immediately captivated by its energy: the streets undergoing renewal, the spots that become landmarks, and the encounters that gradually weave together neighborhood life.

A graduate of ESEC with a degree in audiovisual production, Maud spent ten years as a production manager in film and then in advertising. During that time, she developed a keen eye for aesthetics: the precision of a shot, the poetry of lighting, and the coherence of a set. Over the years, she discovered a particular passion for scouting filming locations: finding just the right place, imbued with an atmosphere capable of bringing a story to life.

The line between interior design and home life is a fine one. For her, feeling at home takes on its full meaning. Buying her first apartment revealed her attraction to unique spaces. Very quickly, her friends and family—and then their friends and family—began seeking her design advice. Drawn to the warm modernism of the ’60s and the pop-art lines of the ’70s, she carefully hunts for vintage pieces, which she happily pairs with contemporary designs: curves by Axel Chay, and the colorful silhouettes of India Mahdavi. In this way, she creates interiors where different eras interact and complement one another.

It was only natural, then, that she joined ARCHIK, where everything that inspires her comes together: real estate as a field of exploration, architecture as a language, design as emotion, and above all, the connections that give meaning to spaces.

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