French way of life / Hotels and offices post-Covid: a new French way of life
Friday 16 April —
00:00
- 00:47
The Talks
Description
My Furniture is French. Office, open-space, flex office, coworking and teleworking. Five-star hotels, apartment or residence-hotel, hotel, hostel, co-living and now on-site travel. Twenty years of (r)evolutions experimenting with new lifestyles, including those of millennials. The pandemic questions our art of living!
Participants
Damien PerrotGlobal Chief Design, Technical Services and Innovation Officer Accor Premium, Midscale & Economy brands
Ana MoussinetInterior designer
Axel SchoenertArchitect & Co-Founder - Axel Schoenert architectes
Lionel BlaisseJournalist
Damien Perrot
Global Chief Design, Technical Services and Innovation Officer Accor Premium, Midscale & Economy brands
After graduating from Vatel Hospitality School, Damien Perrot joined Accor in 1998 as IT Project manager for the Wagon-Lits Company. He was then appointed Project manager in the Procurement Department. From 2000 to 2012, he successfully occupied various positions within the Hotels Equipment Services: as IT Project leader first, then as Department Director before being appointed Design & Technical Services Communication Director in 2009. In 2013, he joined the ibis Family teams as Technical Vice-President for Europe. From 2014 to 2022, Damien led the Group Global Design department and from 2021 the Innovation Lab as well. As of January 2023, he oversees the Global Design, Technical Services and Innovation for Premium, Midscale & Economy brands at Accor. Damien has been fond of cuisine since his childhood and of board sports later on. Damien’s major challenge today is to define and deploy the Design and Innovation strategy for the Premium, Midscale & Economy brands. He also ensures to reinforce the brand equity and brand identity, bringing his team and the group strategy beyond hospitality traditional borders in terms of design, technical services and innovation. Always respecting operational obligations, the department Damien leads is increasingly looking for creativity to build experiences and arouse emotions, while also increasing the performance for investors.
Ana Moussinet
Interior designer
She was raised in Belgrade, Serbia, within a family of painters, architects, and engineers. From a very young age, she was immersed in the world of art. As a child, her playground was the garden of the Belgrade Fine Arts Academy, where her parents took her to share their passion. Her training as a qualified architect now allows her to approach each new project in light of its size and limitations, from a different point of view, certainly with greater ease. This is why her projects are never just about the selected atmospheres or materials, but also about space and its use, thus creating a true signature style. “About my inspirations: I’m not attached to any particular school of thought or style. I’m inspired by all kinds of things; my inspirations are constructed as I resolve mysteries. A singular creation emerges from an ambitious project, which is, in turn, an interpretation of what its author sought to express”, she likes to say.
Axel Schoenert
Architect & Co-Founder - Axel Schoenert architectes
Axel Schoenert founded the Franco-German Axel Schoenert architectural firm with his wife Zsofia Varnagy, interior designer, in 1999 in Paris. With a multicultural team, the agency builds its business, in France and internationally, in the fields of architecture, interior design, design and furniture design. The firm’s priority is to promote an eclectic vision of its work and favor the diversification of the field by intervening both on new projects as well as on complex revamps. Their expertise is put to use on all types of programs and on all types of scales: offices, hotels, restaurants, spas, housing, public buildings and cultural facilities. Among his remarkable projects, the restructuring and new construction of SHIFT 54 London (Winner of the SIMI Grand Prix 2018), the UFO future headquarters of Le Bon Coin, measuring over 7 000m², the Belvédère at La Défense, the Puteaux city hall in 2013 (Winner of the ArchiDesignClub Awards in 2015); renovations of office buildings in the center of Paris such as Octo Technology’s 34 avenue de l’Opéra and the 4-6 rue d’Athènes seat of the MNT, the world headquarters of Sephora, rue Ybry in Neuilly-sur-Seine; or even refurbishments of the 4 co-working spaces created in France by one of the leaders of the sector, the WeWork company. Cultural areas, restaurants and fitness centers are also part of the agency’s references. In Paris, for example, it has revamped the first hotel in France of 25hours Hotel Terminus Nord, the Beauchamps hotel incorporating the theme of “Flâneur”, and the first two MEININGER hotels which will open to the public in October 2019 in Paris and Lyon.
Lionel Blaisse
Journalist
A former architect, a journalist, author, and consultant specializing in architecture and design.