French Waves

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”.

Winner of the 2018 Fondation Bettencourt Schueller prize “pour l’intelligence de la main – Talents d’exception”, Julien Vermeulen and his Maison are one of the few feather artisans still practicing in France. Here, Julien shares with us his artistic vision and future hopes for his craft.

For his latest site-specific installation, ‘Îles Singulières’, Jean Michel Othoniel switched out his studio in Paris for Château La Coste: a 180-hectare art sanctuary hidden deep in the French countryside.

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s latest exhibition gives voice to figures who, aesthetically or scientifically, reveal the beauty and biological wealth of trees which is currently being threatened by deforestation.

David Giroire and Jérôme Bazzocchi are about to present Theoreme Editions in Paris. TLmag talks to them about its careful selection and process.

Harold Mollet advised Pascal Rambert on furniture choices for his recent play Architecture, which challenges the borders of and overlap between disciplines.

The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design recently opened the exhibition Memphis: Plastic Field, about the iconic movement in the ’80s.

With its yearly festival, Villa Noailles aims to further its support for contemporary design by bringing together designers, journalists and the general public over for an extended weekend of events and exhibitions in Toulon and Hyères.