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Introdotto nel 2012, Mathieu Lehanneur ha rifinito e migliorato il suo Take Time prodotto da Lexon. Lo potete indossare al polso, nel taschino o ‘annodato’ su qualche altro supporto. Disponibile in vari colori.

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a meeting room in a London hotel where guests can relax beneath a canopy with an image of trees projected onto its surface (+ slideshow).

Mathieu Lehanneur designed the space for the Pullman London St Pancras hotel, where it provides a meeting room for business clients who want a creative environment suitable for work and relaxation.

Poker tables inspired the leather edge surrounding the large meeting table, which encourages people to lean forward as they would when playing cards.

“By bringing comfort and a certain suppleness to the table itself, I wanted to instil in each person the desire to participate and be at the heart of the debate, to go from passive to active, from spectator to participant,” Lehanneur explained.

A breakout space features comfortable armchairs and tables arranged underneath the faceted canopy, which is illuminated by a digital projection to create the impression of being “somewhere else, outside, under the trees.”

A series of illuminated boxes with reflective interiors contain unusual books and objects “inspired by the living spaces of scientists, aesthetes or collectors,” and were added to offer guests a source of inspiration.

Lehanneur also designed faceted pebble-shaped containers for storing meeting supplies such as notepads and pens.

The unique furniture designs and interventions will be applied throughout Pullman’s hotels in the future.

Here are some more details about the meeting room:

Pullman and Mathieu Lehanneur invent “Business Playground”: a place to work and a playing field for ideas

Pullman reinvents meetings with the “Business Playground” room created by designer Mathieu Lehanneur. This room reflects the brand’s “Work hard, Play hard” motto as well as its guests’ lifestyle. It combines performance and pleasure with a fresh take on the traditional aspects of a meeting: a meeting table designed like a poker table, a private area for informal conversations or breaks, and a cabinet of curiosities. All these features are designed to stimulate creativity and reinvent international hospitality codes. The Pullman London St Pancras will premier the “Business Playground” room from November 2013, before it is gradually rolled out across the network starting in 2014.

“Blurring” as a source of inspiration for meetings

The Pullman Hotels & Resorts cater for the new lifestyles and expectations of the brand’s clientele of cosmopolitan, mobile, hyper-connected travelers. These accomplished professionals, who travel for business or with their clans on holiday, are curious about the world around them. The “blurring” of private and professional life is part and parcel of their daily routine. As a result, whether they are travelling for business or for pleasure, they want to be able to work and live intensely during their stays.

Pullman is an event organization expert, with over 30,000 events organized in its hotels. It aims to offer a unique meeting experience and remove the increasingly artificial barrier between work and relaxation. To do so, it invited designer Mathieu Lehanneur to create a new approach to workspaces and design a boardroom that reflects its “Work hard, play hard” motto.

Xavier Louyot, SVP Pullman Global Marketing explains, “Our business guests travel a lot. Hotel guestrooms and meeting rooms are part of their daily routine. Quality of service and efficient facilities are intrinsic to all upscale international hotels. So, it’s the experience that makes the difference. It takes inspiration for big ideas to make the leap forward. With “Business Playground” we aim to create unforgettable meetings for our guests, so that their gatherings in our establishments in London, Paris, or elsewhere are unlike any others.”

The “Business Playground” room is a far cry from very formal conventional meeting rooms and disrupts the codes of business with style by focusing on defining elements and unique furniture create specially for Pullman.

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French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a chandelier for a château in Marseille, France, that looks like an illuminated rope suspended from the ceiling.

Mathieu Lehanneur used contemporary lighting technology to create a reinterpretation of a chandelier that contrasts with the opulent interior of the eighteenth century building.

Glass tubes containing strips of LEDs puncture the underside of a mezzanine in the château’s entrance hall and seem to hang down like loops of rope.

“It is not an object. It is not a light fitting. It is the light itself that seems to live and circulate in the entrance space, as if stitched onto the building itself,” explains Lehanneur.

The newly renovated Château Borély opened earlier this month and is now home to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode (Museum of Decorative Arts, Earthenware and Fashion).

The opening is one of several events taking place this year in the city which is the European Capital of Culture 2013. Others include an installation of Konstantin Grcic’s furniture in an apartment at Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse and a pavilion by Foster + Partners with a polished steel canopy that reflects passers by.

Mathieu Lehanneur recently designed a circular bar serving food with edible packaging and previous projects include a penthouse bar and nightclub with projectors and cables hanging from large black trees and a Romanesque church with a podium made from stacks of layered marble.

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Photography is by Vincent Duault

Here’s some more information from the designer:

For the opening of Château Borély, now Musée des Arts Décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode in Marseille, Mathieu Lehanneur has designed a monumental chandelier for the entrance hall. “This chandelier was conceived as a rope of light crossing the ceiling, only bands of light and glass are visible. It is not an object. It is not a light fitting. It is the light itself that seems to live and circulate in the entrance space, as if stitched onto the building itself,” summarised the designer.

An impressive visually, on the boundary between light and special effects, since the conventional ceremonial light has been abandoned to pay tribute to the spirit of the place in a more modern fashion. Built in 1760, the Borély country house was a house for holidays and celebrations where the Borély family welcomed their friends. With this light, Mathieu Lehanneur regains the breath of fresh air that formerly blew over the Provençale house.

Materials: LEDs, tubes of borosilicate glass, luminous control system.
Production agency: Eva Albarran & Co

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Fubiz est fier de vous présenter le nouvel épisode Fubiz TV Issue 19. Au sommaire cette semaine, nous avons sélectionné le meilleur de l’actualité de l’univers créatif et nous avons eu la chance de rencontrer le designer français Mathieu Lehanneur. Une interview à découvrir en exclusivité, dans la suite de l’article.

Lighting projectors and cables hang from the spindly branches of chunky black trees inside this penthouse bar and nightclub in Paris by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur (+ slideshow).

Named Electric, the music venue features soundproofed music rooms, an outdoor terrace and a dance floor facing out over the city skyline.

Mathieu Lehanneur collaborated with architect Ana Moussinet to design the interior and added split levels to define different zones.

By day, sofas and trunk-shaped stools can be dotted around the space to form lounge seating areas. By night, these are stored away to open up a ballroom with a rippled DJ booth.

Faceted windows and diagonal panels give texture to the walls in one of the spaces. Others can be used as screens for lighting and video projections.

Mathieu Lehanneur launched his industrial design and interiors studio in 2001. Other interiors he’s designed include a renovation of a Romanesque church in France and an office filled with pulped paper caves. See more design by Mathieu Lehanneur.

Trees have featured in a few interiors recently. See a few more in our recent feature all about indoor forests.

Daytime photography is by Felipe Ribon and night photography is by Fred Fiol.

Here’s some more information from the design team:

Electric by Mathieu Lehanneur

“If Alice in Wonderland had liked rock this is where she would have spent her days and nights…” summarised Mathieu Lehanneur. Electric, the new cultural platform in Paris, is already an event in itself: a 1,000 m2 penthouse in which the designer has devised a canopy of sound suspended between heaven and earth, monumental electrical braids emerging like pitch black trees.

Impressive by day, magical by night, Electric is a venue which never sleeps. A lounge interspersed with soundproofed modules and an 80m2 terrace, Electric is a space equipped with a mixing console whose ballroom floor provides a new perspective over Paris, integrating the ring road as a perpetually moving graphic foreground facing the metal mesh of the Eiffel Tower.

An ephemeral restaurant at lunchtime, a lounge or a club from dusk ’til dawn, Lehanneur and Ana Moussinet have designed a space which can also be freely customised through video projections and an infinite number of layouts available to its customers.

A huge trompe l’œil window onto the city, surrounded by streams of LED lights, is an ultimate nod to a new Versailles, Electric has already been chosen by We Love Art, and Kavinski for the global launch of his next album, and Ducasse… Meanwhile there are already rumours about the installation of an enormous open-air swimming-pool on the site of the car park this summer.

A result of the high creative demands of the management ensured by curator John Michael Ramirez whose range of artists contributes to the cultural distinction of the venue: Greater Paris has found its centre of gravity.

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