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Posted on July 27th 2009

French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of House for the Little Ones at the 104 Centquatre arts centre in Paris.

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French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of La Maison des Petits (House for the Little Ones) at the 104 Centquatre arts centre in Paris. The venue aims to provide a public space where children can exercise their creativity and is divided into distinct areas for children of different ages and abilities. Furnished with freestanding, mushroom-like structures, a sky-blue shell makes the space luminous, while an artificial garden offsets the industrial character of the place. Lowered stools ensure that parents sit at the same level as their children.

Matali Crasset

Matali Crasset was born in 1965 in Chlons-en-Champagne. After graduating at the Ateliers ENSCI in 1991, she participated in the Milan Triennial, where she presented her project the Domestic Trilogy, in which three diffusors spreading warmth (murmur and intimacy), light (images and memories) and water (scents and swirls).

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