At the Design Parade festival, in Toulon, the interior designer Rodolphe Parente invites you to stroll through a careful scenographed apartment to project itself into a “counter-care”.
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For six years, the former bishopric of Toulon has been hosting the Design Parade interior architecture festival. On this occasion, an interior architect rearrays the floor of this 15th century building century with an ephemeral scenography open to the public. This summer, it is Rodolphe Parente who invites the visitor to wander in a “counter-care”. The designer transformed the exhibition halls into an apartment whose adjoining rooms of a living room would be visited where an invisible party would be in full swing.
We stroll between a bedroom, a corridor, a bathroom or a kitchen, carried by a sound covering produced with the composer Charlie Tribur. “We have imagined two soundtracks, that of an off-scope party from which escapes from voice and electronic music escapes, explains the interior designer. Another, more contemplative, where we Hears the decorator and designer Andrée Putman [with which he worked] evoke dawn and light on a tablecloth of hovering sounds. “Specializing in the creation of tailor -made furniture and the renovation of private houses, he delivers his first project here Public.
“I chose to explore the theme of the party, because I love to bring together, receive people. But what interests me is always the step As for, in this case the care taken in the peripheral parts where the evenings also take place. This evocation avoids falling into the caricature of a festive moment, to suggest feelings and sensations, “explains the forties.
In this subtle scenography, he cultivated his specialties: the combined use of noble and poor materials – a table shaped in stainless steel and mirror polished brass, a bathroom cabinet in construction wood panel associated with a stitch very sophisticated metal; But also the work of light, filtered here by two large vertical walls in pleated dichroic film which bring up colored shadows.