Design Parade

« The jury appreciates her unique approach of design, the rigor of her work and her attention to details in the system she has built. “

The surface of the wood is printed, painted or varnished, thus increasing of catalogue narrative possibilities. Thanks to a proportional scale, the calibrated modules allow for the creation of small objects or infinite pieces of furniture. These principles are for example applied to the table consisting of a round top and four parallelepipeds which form its base; each of these grooved faces has a different treatment which catches the light and animates the object according to a particular viewpoint. Dictionaries tell us that the alphabet is a system of graphical signs allowing for the transcription of a language’s sounds. The designer here elaborates a new prototype for writing a contemporary history of habitat.

« The jury has chosen the Quetzal Studio’s proposal unanimously for the intelligence of its response, the comprehensive treatment of space and quality of implementation. “

The starting point of this project is an image of the Mediterranean sea, calm and blue. Immersed office consists of a light architecture, inspired by the structural vocabulary of boats, which resides in the middle of the room. It demarcates a documentation zone and a creation zone. The bookshelves are designed like an enveloping hull enclosing a workspace isolated from the terrestrial world in order to encourage introspection and creativity. On its exterior, the architecture consists of vertical, pale wooden battens resting against the floor and ceiling, punctuated with doubled horizontal lines to receive the books. Inside, the framework is patched with flexible panels of wood. They touch neither the floor nor the ceiling, thus allowing air and natural light to penetrate. The desk arises out of an adjoining wave, developed like a perpendicular extension of the partition, where its base is a block of sanded stone which emerges from the floor. In order to disrupt and blur the horizon, the original tiled floor is lacquered with an abyssal blue which stretches out into pale tones as it rises up the walls. White dominates on the upper part and on the ceiling, opening up to the sky as seen from the sea floor. Mirrors hang on the wall, echoing the sparkling sun on the water. By artificially plunging the inhabitant into the depths, Immersed office offers a surprising décor, favourable to reflection.