French Waves

French designer Samy Rio creates objects that bridge traditional crafts and modern industrial processes through playful and functional material combinations.

Villa-Noailles Hyères, in the mountains of Hyères, presents a unique exhibition with different perspectives to capture the diversity of its natural context.

With a focus on the unconventional and the evocative, Hermès perfumer Christine Nagel combines nature and technology in a new fragrance for men.

RVB Books presents ‘Soulèvements’ by Noémie Goudal, a continuation of the artist’s large-scale photographic investigation into landscape and the history of the Earth.

Part of the curatorial series ‘Matters of Concern’, this exhibition by Barbara Chase-Riboud is the renowned sculptor, poet and novelist’s first in Europe in a very long time.

Each reflecting on their own interpretation of their medium of choice, crystal, eight distinct crafts(wo)men present the results of their residency-time at Cristallerie Saint-Louis with Fondation d’enterprise Hermès.

In celebration of Villa Noailles’ re-opening and their updated summer programme, we’re looking back at our interview with the exhibition site’s director and founder of its Design Parade: Jean-Pierre Blanc.

Within Louis Carré’s iconic house built by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto in the late 1950s, visitors can now experience the fine artworks of three contemporary Finnish artists: Laura Laine, Kustaa Saksi and Kim Simonsson.

Whether it’s by using scutched flax fibres to create a rug or 65 litres of crude oil to create a a stone-like table, Pauline Esparon’s process is dedicated to transforming the unrefined materials that surround us to highlight the qualities that we’ve taken for granted.

If you could build a house for any celebrity, who would you pick? Villa Noailles most recent exhibition focuses on the conceptual constructions born from collaborations between (star) architects and celebrities.

TLmag caught up with collector and interior designer Chahan Minassian to talk about how he invokes personal, lived-in qualities into his impeccable designs as well as his project, which unites Old Masters with modern works within the medieval setting of Venice’s Abbazia di San Gregorio.

TLmag speaks to French visual artist Adrien Vesovi who, after a serious skiing accident in 2004, adopted a repetitive artistic process that still leaves room for surprise – creating what he likes to call “wanted accidents”.