Article in FRAME Magazine for Jacquemus pop-up “Les Fleurs”.
Laureats for the Les Étincelles pavilion project, for the Palais de la Découverte. Opening in May 2021.
New exhibition “Offrir des fleurs” at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, as part of Agora du Design. Starting in 2021.
New scenographic project and scenic device for Compagnie Olivier Dubois. Starting January 2021, on tour.
After our exhibition around the gesture of giving flowers, the Jacquemus brand, along with the yoann & marco agency, asked the studio to create a set installation and produce an ephemeral pop-up named “Les Fleurs”. In direct collaboration with the Buttercup producer - Les Fleurs de Paul - this action in the heart of the 18th arrondissement of Paris creates a moment of sharing and exchange. Between floristry and its place of transformation, the arrangement takes place in the windows like colored fragments. The device maximizes and uses the objects of the flower delivery: carts, buckets, tarpaulins and other tools.
From the dazzling sun to the total or partial eclipse, the suspended structure designed by the studio for Itmahrag responds to the dancers and performers who surround it. The neon monolith, driven by an integrated motor, rotates and reveals a solid black circle. The coloured neon lights are blazing and remind us as much of the party as of its danger. Sometimes carrying luminous symbols, evocative of a psychedelic rave or alarming flashing light, this raw and technical structure becomes poetic and sensitive.
As part of the television show, Eurovision - France live broadcast on France 2 on January 30, 2021, the studio developed the scenography for Ali - Paris says to me. Imagined as an evolving device, the curtain unfolds and reveals an architecture that is erected around the performer. The arch typology is used on several scales and creates a play of perspective on stage
Design editorial for Month Day Year on the theme of “la Dernière Fête” - The Last Party. The party, memory or fantasy…? In a context where partying is a synonym of prohibition, who’s left to celebrate at night? Paf Atelier imagines a three-dimensional space and invites 25 designers to make their objects dance. These design creations come to life on the dancefloor, at the bar, in the cloakroom or the smokehouse and populate these places where everyone fantasizes to meet. From the exhibition space to the nightclub there is only one more step, the time for one last party.
The studio collaborated with Togæther to design the new presentation around the theme of Sport and the entrance to the Champs-Élysées Flagship. The device reverses the initial set-up by transforming the bleachers into a sports development surface. From running to football, including basketball, this installation shows the link between different sports. The place is open to everyone from January 28, 2021.
The Sohrâb Chitan Company reinterprets the tale of Sleeping Beauty. Poetic, evil, this tale has crossed the ages and found multiple representations. This ballet is developed as a series of three tableau representing the three highlights of Aurore’s life. She goes through states of thought, reveries, extremes. The scenography is a screen work of curtains cut into arches, creating different compositions. Due to the pandemic, this production could not be fulfilled.
The studio questions and diverts the primary function of this desecrate place to create an exhibition space and a place of exchange around an universal subject: the nativity. The project we are proposing focuses on a flesh and blood colorimetric and plastic scenography creating a unique experience that does not damage the existing building. The principle is simple, it involves the creation of several volumes. Each base illustrates each sub-part of the theme and is completed by signage work in neon light.
As part of the launch of the sixth issue of Pli - Minimal & maxima magazine, the studio elaborated a scenography for the gallery space at Floréal Belleville in Paris. Inside and outside, the scenographic space of this micro-gallery is treated as a whole. This installation is commensurate with the theme, and its duality. The showcase is used as a graphic composition surface and gives the street a full expression of the theme: maximum. Inside, the use of the magazines themselves as presentation support expresses the idea of a minimal device, without any added objects or produced for the occasion.
Imagined as a chromatic laboratory, with organic and generous shapes, this project deploys in 2D and 3D, outside and inside the gallery, a graphic experience and uses around the objects of the studio’s designer duo BehaghelFoiny. Pli Public Workshop’s Winner, they turn their experimental work into everyday objects: table, chair, floor lamp, vases.
While we are living in a delicate period, the world we know is changing and we are trying somehow to keep a relationship with each other. This moment teaches us that it is no longer possible to think individually about our relationship to the creation of new objects, new spaces and new services. It is necessary to think differently, collectively, about being together and sharing experiences/things. This relationship is realized through social networks and impacts our relationship to reality. The exhibition takes place on a social network platform, a place by excellence that marks social rapprochement. As curator and scenographer of this exhibition, we wish to show a dialogue between the proteiform objects presented. We conceive this platform as a collective space of multiple contributions. This first version is called @familyguys.works – a nod to solidarity and social rapprochement (in spite of social distancing), to our desire to remain united.
The scenography of this Korean pop-up shop seeks to question the manufacturing process of the object. The project can be read through three materials of industrial origin expressing three moments of creation. The floor is covered with gravel, the displays are made of BA13 and the envelope is made of bubble wrap. The very shape of the objects created evokes advancement, an evolving space for an ephemeral exhibition.
Cut, assemble, color and fit inside and out, these are the main principles of this furniture project. In collaboration with designer Benjamin Decle, we offer an adaptable furniture that fit different everyday situations. Identical sections allow you to see and understand an easy-to-assemble object that adapts to both indoor and outdoor environments. Through the exploration of the different possibilities of action – at the scale of the object – the effect on the architectural environment takes on a new meaning.
Basile di Manski is a Parisian musician and singer. The studio has created for him a scenographic device adaptable to his next performances. The device is made out of several printed curtains and is adaptable to any venue. A play of cut-outs in the fabric creates a false perspective effect, which brings structure to the stage and invites the singer to move through the curtains. Combined with the different light effects and various foam objects, the printed color gradients allow the artist to choose from a variety of colorimetric atmospheres, becoming paintings with each different song of the set.
The scenography will be produced for the next concert dates of Basile in 2020.
Leading a multidisciplinary team composed of architects, designers and graphic designers, the studio co-produced the first edition of the Pli Public Workshop at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris. Created by Pli Éditions in 2019, the latter is a creative support program dedicated to the new generation of architects and designers.
Over a period of several months, the studio oversaw the production of eleven installations by the program’s laureates, while producing the exhibition and bringing to life the scenography designed by Adrien Rovero Studio. By considering museography as a tool for mediation, the studio sought to question the codes of presentation set up in an exhibition. This exhibition was made possible thanks to an efficient and original synthesis of various creative disciplines, which is emblematic of the work process established by the studio in each of its projects.
The studio co-produced the first exhibition of the Pli Public Workshop, held from November 2019 to January 2020 at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris. Dedicated to research and the production of a project, this creative assistance program offers an accompaniment from professionals from the fields of architecture, art and design.
Over a period of several months, the studio oversaw the design and production of the laureates’ works, brought together in a collective exhibition reflecting on creating and experimenting around the theme of Obsession. Prototypes or finished objects, videos or models, immersive installations or micro-architectures, these new productions crystallized ways of thinking and doing, creative processes and as many approaches that question architecture and design in a tangible way. This project shows the importance that the studio attaches to supporting and encouraging young contemporary creation.
Yanis is a French singer, actively involved in the Parisian Queer scene. After a first album, he came back with new artistic and performative proposals, which the studio interpreted in a scenography. Conceived for a tailor-made show at the Mains d’Œuvres space (Saint-Ouen), the set design is composed of several printed screens, various objects and platforms, sound and light devices. This show allowed us to collaborate with light engineers, sound technicians, dancers and performers. Produced to a sold-out audience, this collaborative project was extended when Yanis was invited to play the premiere of Hyphen Hyphen at the Zenith-la Villette in Paris.
Aimko Paris (creative agency) has commissioned the studio and Ubalt Architectes to design the showroom for the new SS19 Adidas collection in an ephemeral 2500 m² venue. The devices we designed were made using elements from the world of building and construction. Assembled and diverted from their primary use, they become seats, displays, room dividers and various supports. The venue was opened by invitation to professional buyers and influencers from the sneaker and sportswear scene for two weeks during the 2018 Paris Fashion Week.
The We Love Green music festival was the occasion to experiment with large-scaled creation through an ephemeral installation. We designed this scenography as an opportunity to interact with the public, and invite visitors to start a new dialogue with the objects. Entirely transportable and adaptable to the festival grounds, these colored objects allow visitors to walk through them, as their material properties (inflatable, translucent etc.) do not make them obstacles. The idea is to create an event within the festival itself by installing a village of shapes. Like in situ folies, they offer a pause in the wandering of the festival-goers. This project has remained at the state of a sketch.
For the 4th Bienniale of the Réseau des Maisons de l’architecture (the french network of architecture houses), the studio was invited to lead both the general curating of the bienniale, and the curating of the Pari exhibition taking place at the DOC! space in Paris. Playing with the codes and various interpretations of the engagements of designers and architects, the project was articulated around two spaces : the former swimming pool and the former refectory. In a scenography designed by Peaks Architects, the studio exhibited a co-presence of already-made artworks and objects & installations created specifically for the event.
As the Frac Paca needed nine travelling exhibition modules, we designed a collection of furniture which could adapt itself to the artworks in display. This collection of furniture aims to offer mobility and adaptability to an exhibition space. Using metal tubes and modular shelves, we imagined a shelving system able to adapt its structure to its content. This solution makes it possible to recreate rooms, walls and ceilings to accommodate and allow different displays and hanging systems. This project remained in the sketch stage.
As a part of the production team of the villa Noailles (Hyères), the studio designed, produced and oversaw the montage of the Maison Schiaparelli exhibition (which led the 2017 fashion jury). In the swimming pool of the villa, we decided to recreate, day and night, an aquatic activity. We exhibited a historical fashion collection of the haute couture house with and aerial centerpiece. At the heart of the 32nd Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival, the exhibition welcomed 11 000 visitors.
As a part of the production team of the villa Noailles (Hyères), the studio produced and supervised the montage of the architectural exhibition La Boite de Nuit (« the nightclub »). Thanks to the magic of the technical device, thousands of silver dots run across the walls and the lawn : Robert Mallet-Stevens’ architecture fades away to recreate the very essence of the nightclub : a place of emancipation and sensory exacerbation that erases any reference to the material world. The exhibition welcomed 5,000 visitors.
Following the release of the fourth issue of its magazine, the publishing house Pli Éditions organized this exhibition in the gallery of the famous French design magazine Étapes:. Choosing to put aside the creative process aside for once, the exhibition turns to the primary objects : raw materials. The genesis of the creations of ten artists, architects, designer and graphic designers were showcased. The exhibited pieces included works from Atelier Irradié, the Kandinsky Library, Fanette Mellier, Léo Grunstein and Camille Berger (Studio Philippe Apeloig), Les Graphiquants, matali crasset, Philippe Rahm, Pierre Antoine, Samy Rio and Spassky Fischer.
Co-signed with Pli Éditions and Collectif Blanc, this exhibition took place in an unusual place : a contemporary dance studio in Montreal. The exhibition reunited artists from Paris and Montreal. The immersive scenography allowed visitors to have free access to the exhibited pieces, thus questioning and hijacking traditional ways of showcasing graphic and editorial pieces. The four-day event was completed by performances (artists, dancers, etc.) and the presence of a bookstore (Canadian Centre for Architecture).
This exhibition focuses on making tangible the invisible process of creating a publication. Sous Pli looks behind the scenes of physical and conceptual production to showcase a space of trials, failures and successes. Articulated in letters (time) and numbers (exchanges), 120 layouts and discussions were exhibited. Through a 3-meter high extruded plane, the accumulation of suspended paper creates a penetrable and accessible architecture.
