Design Parade – villa Noailles

The conferences of Design Parade at Villa Noailles are taking place in a part on the Northen Gardens, under the trees to protect from sun. They generally began between 5 and 7PM to protect from the heat…

120 places are available each time and weren’t enough to welcome on the friday night of the 4th Andrea Branzi, Massimo Morrozzi, Roberta Meloni and Francesca Balena Arista… and on the 5th Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec interviewed by Michèle Champenois…

On sunday afternoon a very nice moment of talk was prepared by Florence Doleac, one of the designer commissioned to design the residency guestroom of the Petite Villa. The others designer Désirée from Bless, François Azambourg and David Dubois were also part of the lecture.

Enjoy…

Andrea Branzi and Massimo Morrozzi

Roberta Meloni, Francesca Balena Arista, Andrea Branzi and Massimo Morrozzi,telling about Superarchitettura (see other posts)

Listenning to a question from the audience

Konstantin Grcic, president of the jury listenning as well the question.

Around 9PM when the sun came down, a very nice atmosphere..

On Saturday, 5PM, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec interviewed by Michèle Champenois…

Listenning… Didier Grumbach, president of the franch couture federation, Frederic Beuvry, design head of the Seb Group, Chantal Hamaide, Intramuros ’s owner.

Be attentive !

On Sunday, Florence Doleac, Désirée from Bless, François Azambourg and David Dubois, the designers commissioned to design the residency guestroom of the Petite Villa.

A festival is a special atmosphere… You have theater festivals, dance festivals, festivals of music of all kinds but also in festivals etc… live performances are keen on generating festivals. For art and design… you have biennales or symposiums… That’s why we decide to make a festival about design… to make it lively and joyful !

In order that young designers could be welcomed in their field by professionnals around them for 3 day,

In order to share together conferences, funny moments, exhibitions,

In order to make a modern house stay alive because it was built for an artistic purpose, to make life as a festival of surprising moments…

Let’s enjoy…

All images but one, Eric Giriat

The third edition of the Design PARADE festival ended sunday evening with its award ceremony. After three days full of many events, the jury deliberated to choose one Grand Prix and a Groupe Seb Design Award winner.

After meeting individually each of the eight young designers and their project, the jury deliberated…

Starting from the front and going clockwise: Pierre Doze behind Jean Pierre Blanc, Marie-Claude Beaud, Pierre Charpin, Franck Fontana, Michel Roset, Catherine Geel, Konstantin Grcic, Jerzy Seymour, Alice Morgaine, Walter Bettens, Ineke Hans, Sebastien Cordoleani and David Dubois.

Jury of 2008 !

Finally, choices were made:

Constance Guisset from the Ensci won the Public Prize

Julien Carretero from Eindhoven won the Group Seb Design Award…

He receives a 10 000 € prize and the book Fork by Phaidon.

… and Michel Charlot from the Ecal won the Grand Prix

Michel will have a very busy year as he will have a year of research work at the Manufacture de Sèvres, attend a Vitra workshop at Boisbuchet, set up a booth at the professional fair Maison & Objet, read the Phaidon Design Classic in 3 volumes and finally plan his personal exhibit for next year’s Design PARADE at the villa Noailles !

In the quiet and beautiful “salles voutées” of the villa facing the cubist garden of Gabriel Guévrekian, Stéphane Boudin-Lestienne set up, with the help of scenographer and designer David Dubois, a peaceful and joyful display on the Modern Gardens, those inspired by the Noailles and others examples of the european modernity.

The fisrt room is dedicated to the history of the house prefigurating the future pemanent exhibition that should open in 2010.

Tables on tables of the villa and a delicate Chareau’ stool.

Tables to sit in order to contemplate…

and listen to Charles de Noailles’s voice and music pieces commissioned by him and Marie-Laure to Francis Poulenc or Auric etc…

The view on the lansdcape, still present at Noailles

Posters books used for the scenography and to show documents

Peaceful moment to read as well..

and listenning to explantion of the team.

On sunday the 6th of July, the Superachitettura exhibition was openned after the press preview on friday (4th of july 08) where Francesca Balena Arista the curator of Centro Studi Poltronova had explained with sensibility the context of the year 1966 in Firenze.

Francesca with Andrea Branzi and Massimo Morrozi

On Friday’s night from 8PM to 9.45PM, Andrea Branzi, Massimo Morrozzi (Archizoom) with Francesca and Roberta Meloni, the incredibly energic and passionnated owner of Poltronova, told us about the whole story of the exhibition and even showed films that the groups where doing at that time and an interview of Gilberto Corretti who was not able to be with us thar day in the northen garden of Villa Noailles.

The two Archizoom’s cofounder with La Mucca in the Tunnel.

The exhibition from the stairs going up.

And for the openning…

Conférence at the Villa Noailles in the northern gardens

On saturday morning, Andrea and Massimo went on a tour trough the villa meeting the one ( Bouroullec Brothers) and the others…

All photos by Francesca Balena Arista and Roberta Meloni (Poltronova)

In the swimming pool, the squash and the gymnasium, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are showing their creative process from inspiration to production…. By buildings huge 3D landscapes that work both as picture and moving paintings, where you can seat in the seats, touch some furniture, contemplate drawings and view of the villa….

Don’t miss the night promenade every friday from 4PM to 10 PM to enjoy these beautiful display by the brothers

The swimming-pool at night from a balcony of the villa.

And this is the fisrt time that the Bouroullec are presentings the two new developpements of the Tiles rangesedited by Kvadrat :

Let now have some views on the exhibition

In the swiming pool

In the squash…

All images copyright Studio Bouroullec, 2008

Julien, Constance, Stéphane, Joachim, Bruno, Manuel, Maria, Michel and Alexandra have all arrived to start working on the display of their project in the villa.

Joachim helping Maria installing her project.

Constance’s project still unpacked.

Manuel and Bruno’s project still looking quite mysterious…

Michel, very busy…

Stéphane explaining his project to Florence Doléac who arrived for her conference.

Julien standing next to a piece of his project.

Keep in touch to stay updated !

In four days the third edition of Design PARADE will start off ! For now, the whole team is working on the setting up of the exhibitions.

Trucks arrive almost daily to unload pieces…

…from Italy, Switzerland, Paris…

Inside the villa, some rooms have been repainted for the occasion and are awaiting the pieces…

The Bouroullec team working in the Squash,

and in the swimming pool…

… on the Algues system

and on the North Tiles

David Dubois is working on his display for the Document 5: modern gardens exhibit.

One of the young designers, Stéphane Barbier Bouvet, has arrived to start working on his project, which is he reconstructing especially for the competition.

Sounds mysterious ? Want to learn and see some more ? Join us next week end for the festival ! Download your accreditation file on the homepage of www.villanoailles-hyeres.com for the conferences.

Hope to see you  during the festival !