Marion Mailaender: Seaview Residence
Marseille-based interior architect Marion Mailaender, 2024 President of the Design Parade Toulon jury and guest of honor, presents the exhibition “Seaview Residence” (Residence Vu Sur Mer), at the Ancien Eveché in Toulon through November 3, 2024.
Marseille-based interior architect Marion Mailaender, 2024 President of the Design Parade Toulon jury and guest of honor, presents the exhibition “Seaview Residence” (Residence Vue Sur Mer), at the Ancien Eveché in Toulon through November 3, 2024.
After her training at the École Boulee, Marion Mailaender launched her interior architecture and design agency, in Marseille, in 2004. Her practice ranges from everyday objects for the interior and exterior, scenography, residential, hotel and commercial design projects, including the Tuba Hotel in Marseille. She has collaborated with numerous creatives including Sophie Calle, for whom she redid the artist’s home studio, Amelie Pichard and Esteban Cortazar.
Mailaender was asked to be the President of the 2024 Design Parade Toulon jury and was invited as a special guest of honor. With this, she presents a special exhibition, titled “Seaview Residence” (Residence Vue Sur Mer), which includes a series of objects, furniture and installations.
The title is a reference to her childhood in the south of France, and growing up among such architectural references as Le Corbusier’s Cités Radieuses, where there was a sense of free spirit and sunshine living that continues to inspire the designer’s work. « Fun is the function rather than form is the function » or « less is more but too much is cool », states Mailaender, who has created a suite of installations throughout the exhibition space that reference the rooms and houses that she remembers from her youth. A mix of objects and itneriors that evoke a personal nostalgia along with a collective consciousness of the era and location.
“SeaView Residence, is then not just a funny title that sounds like a property ad, but also a discreet way to recall a shared story, and also pin point more intimate subject that are close to her heart, and that guide her, since the start, to engineer bold and daring interior architecture and design projects,” her studio writes.
“Seaview Residence” (Residence Vue Sur Mer) is on view until 3 November 2024
Ancien Eveché – 69 Cours Lafayette, 83000 Toulon
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