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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.
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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
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