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By training, Matali Crasset is an industrial designer; she graduated from the Ateliers-Ensci in 1991 and worked with Denis Santachiara and later Philippe Starck. In 1998 she set up her own business.
In the 1990s matali made her name in the profession, turning her back on strictly formal design, challenging our basic habitat, extending it to produce an area for movement and experimentation. She has pondered and developed ideas on domestic rites and the role of technology. All of matali’s projects are distinctive, expressing a specific approach, and leaving her scope to work in fields as diverse as stage design, industrial design, furniture, interior decoration, graphic design, mounting exhibitions and artistic direction.
HI is a total design project where Matali Crasset has embraced the entire site, putting her name to everything from the graphic effects and small articles to architecture and programming. matali crasset’s work has now received international acclaim, as can be seen with her exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, after the mu.dac in Lausanne and before the Grand Hornu in Belgium.
http://www.matalicrasset.com
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The most eloquent exponents of the concept are the people who devised it.
Matali crasset :
“There are some grand hotels which attempt to give the impression that guests are at home, while others opt for the
atmosphere of the guest invited into someone else’s home. HI offers an experience – an experience of contemporary living. A hotel is the perfect place for seeing and giving different views on any and every form of contemporary culture. And it is obvious that a short-term stay away from home is a great moment for experimenting. HI takes guests on a voyage of discovery, leaving each individual free to embrace the different universes presented. It is a place for action.”
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Philippe Chapelet and Patrick Elouarghi have been working together for ten years. After opening the “Épicerie du Monde” in Paris, the first “world food concept store”, they decided to head for the country.In the Loire Valley, they restored the Château de la Tremblaye and within the first year it became an affiliated member of “Châteaux & Hotels de France”.
In 2001 they embarked on a new challenge, inventing a hotel which would create new standards, transcending the clichés and conventions typical of luxury hotels. And they came up with the idea of HI. HI would be urban, innovative, and daring design hotel. They chose the city of Nice, at the crossroads of international travel and with idyllic weather.
Next came the search for a designer and it was not long before they were drawn to the work of matali crasset. “She is different, off beat, and had come up with ideas for non-decorative furniture, with the focus on functional use and experimentation.” They discovered a person who was “accessible”, who was attracted to their ambition of offering an alternative to top-of-the-range hotel accommodation available today. matali’s aspirations were in line with theirs. Patrick and Philippe found the ideal spot: it was a 1930s building which had once been a boarding house. The simple and pure lines of the façade provided an ideal starting point for a totally contemporary project.
The plan was developed over a period of months: matali submitted proposals; ideas bounced back and forth, stimulated and expanded in the exchange, and developed into autonomous concepts. Thus HI Hotel was invented
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