"Above reason, there is conscience" - VICTOR HUGO"When I look at a scenery, nothing can stop me from looking at its faults" - OSCAR WILDE"One needs to feel, not to know" - STENDHAL"Beauty is always weird" - CHARLES BAUDELAIRE"Art doesn't reproduce what's visible but makes visible" - PAUL KLEE"Art is not power but word of comfort" - THOMAS MANN"I use differently materials and techniques in use for ages." - SHIGERU BAN"True mastery is the accomplishment of simplicity" - ZEN PRECEPT"Less is more»" - BAHAUS PRECEPT"A way to act is to be a dreamer" - PHILIPPE STARCK"Landscape teaches us how to build our houses. In nature, the plant's shape depends to the place it grows." - GLENN MERCUTT"There is no personal art without personal discipline" - PIERRE REVERDY"Pain hurts but it's not that bad" - SENEQUE"Art that is not in the present will never be" - PABLO PICASSO"Every day, I dim the value of intelligence" - MARCEL PROUST"The agility of a building goes hand in hand with the sincerity of a purpose." - RENZO PIANO"The most important can't be seen by eyes" - Saint Exupery"You should be satisfied discovering and not explaining" - GEORGES BRAQUE"Mona Lisa smiles because all who have drawn her a moustache have died" - ANDRE MALRAUX"By architecture, I want to do the wind dancing, the earth and the sky stiring !" - TADAO ANDO"The beauty of an object depends to the way it catches the light" - ANDREE PUTMAN"A piece of art is a cry in the desert" - FRANCOIS MAURIAC"Money is a good servant but a bad master" - ALEXANDRE DUMAS"A drawing is a rough draft of the awakening mind" - GEORGES ROUAULT"There are no difficult tasks that can't be split into small easy ones" - BUDDHIST PROVERB"The less you desire, the more you are" - ZEN PRECEPT"Despite its physical expression, I consider architecture as mental activity." - DANIEL LIBESKIND"Art starts where nature stops" - OSCAR WILDE"Not to succeed is not a failure, it's training" - TIBETAN PROVERB"I don't have to deform, I start shapeless and I shape" - GEORGE BRAQUE"I refuse to see the finished product in order to only see what it's made of" - PHILIPPE STARCK"Lack and shortcomings create" - PAUL VALERY"When I am out of blue, I use red!" - PABLO PICASSO"I desire a piece of me still unknown" - PAUL GAUGUIN"One must reintroduce dream and sacred in the modern city." - MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS"The artist is a constant player whose masterpiece is the game won" - ANDRE MALRAUX"To become universal, first become intimate !" - RODIN"I have changed the perception of visible with the vision of real" - PHILIPPE STARCK"Work is food for noble souls" - SENEQUE"A building lives thanks its beauty, because it seduces, moves and inspires people." - HERZOG & DE MEURON"Ideas don'y belond to anyone, they are in the mood of time" - PAUL ARDEN"I don't seek, I find" - PABLO PICASSO"For an artist, pride is less a character fault than a necessary condition of creation" - GAETAN PICON"Changes don't modify the sea itself" - VINCENT VAN GOGH"The architect has to choose a disadvantage and to assume the responsability." - COOP HIMMELB(L)AU"The logical reasoning must run into the sense approach in order to make apparent the architecture" - TADAO ANDO"A painter is a collector who makes paintings that he likes to see at other people's place" - PABLO PICASSO"Being an artist is not counting" - RAINER MARIA RILKE"Architecture is everywhere, in a curb of pavement, in a territory abandoned by town planning" - PATRICK BOUCHAIN"Art is not shape but shaping" - PAUL KLEE"I have painted Greek temples all my life without knowing it" - MARK ROTHKO"He who knows internal peace is neither upset by failure nor carried away by success" - MATTHIEU RICCARD"Today is the first day of the rest of my life" - OCCIDENTAL PROVERB"The set should highlight a person and allow him to draw the best from inside" - JACQUES GARCIA"For me, space is ambiguous like air and light which pour between two things." - TOYO ITO


"MISTER X SITTING AND DINNING ROOM"
Welcome my friends !




"ENTRANCE, STAIRCASE AND OFFICE OF MISTER X"
an electric place of life




"MISTER X BEDROOM"
amoung cherry-trees in blossom




"LULU SHOES SHOP"
shoe shop for children
A show-stock and a fitting-circus ring




"RESTAURANT L'OUSTAU"
Mystery and pleasure of space and objects




"ICE CREAM CONFECTIONER ISABELLA"
Fairylike alliance between two walls face to face




A service in 4 steps

First step : meeting between client and interior designer with a visit of the place to deal with
The aim is to examine the ways of realizing a real work of interior design together.
There is no commitment.

Second step: preliminary plan
Draft with the main features and the main questions of the customer.
List of possible answers with a commercial offer.
Approach of the cost of the yard and of the global budget.
Commitment and first account necessary to pass on the next step.

Third step: detailed plan
Search for a concept. Drawing of a detailed plan describing the project with technical indications. Atmosphere's drawing, simple miniature models and materials samples board.
Search of suppliers and craftsmen with a detailed description of the mission for each one.
Second account.

Fourth and last step: coordination and follow-up of the yard
Comparative study of products and services offers.
Previsional calendar of the yard.
Yard's meeting organisation.
Reception of the works and final instalment.



Charges

Each client, each place and each product is unique and impliES a unique schedule.
In principle, nevertheless:
  • First meeting and visit (no comitment): 0 € excl.tax.
    (Offer of travelling expenses, visiting and listening time, first creative thoughts)
  • Preliminary plan: 100 €.E.T.
    Written document with commercial offer in order to make the commitment possible.
    In case of acceptance, this amount is included in the commercial offer.
  • Detailed plan: from 1000 €.E.T.
    Depending on the case, (in the interest of each one) I suggest either a contract which take the surface and volumes into account, or a commission on the global amount of yard and purchases before taxes;(about 15 %).
I am responsible for the final result and represent your warranty of success.



Frequently asked questions
  • What is your style?
    I don't think to have a perticular style.
    The client and the place which needs decorating provide the style.
    Professionnal or private space, I like to stand aside and put the problem centraly.
    That is to say, I think architecture before decoration.
    Instead of saying « it's beautifull », I prefer saying « it works »!

  • What is your minimum budget?
    One can consult me for a simple advice.
    But interior design implies a minimum price...

  • What is your ideal client?
    Customer accepting to be driven where he or she wouldn't have gone alone.
    But also the one who criticises me when needed and makes my work better.
    When a client is genuine enough to communicate his/her dreams and fears, he is going you his/her to trust.
    Trust is essential.

  • Do you refuse some type of yards?
    No but I might refuse some attitudes of client. Attitudes that will not allow a quality interior design.
    There can't be a good architect without a « good prince ». The « meeting » between those has to happen.
    In some cases, it is also possible I am not the right person.

  • Is there some work of design you can't bear?
    There are only three types of work I don't enjoy.
    The pretentious spiritless luxuriousness. Works of design with too much « yin » or on the contrary too much « yang ».

  • What is your favorite professionnal?
    Tadao Ando and John Pawson for space, light and the divine.
    Starck for the scenery and may-be Liaigre for elegance.

  • What is your favorite architectural element?
    Color and matter of course but more singularly the reflection, a fuzzy image and transparency.
    I have also a funny attraction for electric lighting, that is to say the light of night and the light of mankind.
    The comb or the bird wing inspire me as wel...

  • An essential professionnal quality?
    I can't mention only one.
    May-be to understand what the client is unable to express.
    Being both: a composer and a conductor of orchestra.
    Being able to visualize twenty things at the same time in order to measure and to control the effects.
    Being able to draw and to write; to speak and to be silent.
    Not to mistake your desires for those of the client.
    Finding the best possible combination so that the final result is both: an obviousness and a surprise!

  • I heard the title of interior designer doesn't exist in France. Is that true?
    Yes and no.
    Yes, interior design is an art where you can find the best but also the worst. Sometimes, there is a misuse of language.
    No, there isa rigourous training of 5 years after the A-level which is recognised by organizations such as U.N.A.I.D or C.F.A.I.
    To go further, I invite you to visite the web site: www.fnsai.org
    You can also visit the school where I studied: www.penninghen.com

Appropriations - Legal mentions

Luc Hautbout is the contemporary figurative artist specialized in the making of etchings, inviting you to visit the virtual painting gallery and the art gallery in Avignon.