The Art of Design Issue 22 2016 | Page 118

118 Combining functionality with poetry, creating a "multifaceted trademark which is nevertheless recognisable" in the French spirit, is the direction which the two partners are taking, bringing with them in their enthusiastic and infinite production hotel flagships such as the Martinez in Cannes or the Grand Hotel de Cabourg, a testimonial to hundred-year old luxury, renowned for its role in the beginning of sea bathing. For Accor, they are helping to transform the Sofitel hotels so that they join the refined and highest end of the market in Lisbon, Marseille (Vieux Port) in Casablanca and soon in Frankfurt. In Quiberon they have revisited the mythical thalassotherapy spa for the group, paying a fantastic tribute to Brittany... Hotels belonging to large groups, mythical luxury hotels, high profile and gastronomic restaurants, but also boutique hotels (Les Jardins de la Villa in Paris or the East West in Geneva), paradisiacal resorts (Moofushi in the Maldives for Constance Hotels & Resorts) and private projects, the studio produces and designs many unique works serving the history of a place but also associating artistic expression. True creation is one which is shared and open to others, building bridges and links between the idea and the production, the design and the realisation; which brings together expertise and gives it full rein. Certain of their works are now produced by very reputable French manufacturers. Their 25 years of experience, their career paths, their voyages, their vision of things, their analyses, their singularity and the fineness and richness of their ideas have brought certain of their clients to ask them to have a much larger approach towards the projects. Today as well as being used for their expertise and savoir-faire, they have been entrusted with missions of artistic direction and global design. www.studiomhna.com