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This old seventeenth century building was once a Corsican gro-

cery shop. Today, it has been transformed into a Maison d’Hôtes with 5 unique rooms - each is de-signed in a different style by a talented artist. We of-fer our guests a rare oppor-tunity to sleep in a work of art - before it changes the following year. Enjoy an original artistic experience during a stay in this house seeped in history.

The SpiriT of AVpStylish and with great atten-tion to detail, this is both a welcoming and comfortable place to stay. AVP combines Art and Decadence, repre-senting free expression and lifestyle. It’s definitely time-less and also rather daring!

- WhAT iS AVp ?

“ Wake up ina Work of Art! ! ”

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Le ConCepTEphemeral display :The space evolves into a “gallery” with its works of art available for sale.

Design : Furnishings un-derscore each artist’s work.

Comfortable & Hospitable : A privileged and intimate welcome awaits guests at this showcase lodging.

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2012SAISON III

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Philippe BaudelcoquePainterTiltGraffiti ArtistMatthias OlmetaPhotographerMourad MessoubeurVisual ArtistMass ConfusionGraphic Design StudioEugénie BergeonGraphic Artist

Communal AreasThe WizardVisual artistToma LPainter

FurnitureCécile GonnardHeritageLaure TinelLa Boutique Ephemere

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Philippe BaudelocqueFusion

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TiltGraffiti Artist

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MistStalagmist2013

SAISON IV

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MistGraffiti ArtistMilène GuermontVisual ArtistLa Dame noirPhotographer & Label MusicAvexcitersArchitect and Designers Julien ColombierSurface pattern designerOhidoIllustrator

Communal AreasHyperline StudioVisual ArtistCheyenneIllustratorToma LPainter

FurnitureCécile GonnardHeritageLaure TinelLa Boutique EphemereMarine AlaryMAchin

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Milène GuermontPolysensual

2011SAISON II

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Clément JolinPhotographerJustin BlythGraphic designer & Visual artistGaëlle VilledaryVisual Artist/Model MakerMothi LimbuGraphic IllustratorStudio Corpus Illustrator and Model Maker

Communal AreasGuillaume ChamahianPhotographerVéronique SarafianVisual artistToma L.Painter

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Clément JolinMur - mur

Gaëlle VilledaryRéminiscence

2010SAISON I

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Stéphane ManelIllustratorTous des KGraphic Design StudioFred CalmetsPainterL’ArtmadaCollective of Graffiti ArtistsClaire LeinaSurface Pattern Designer

Communal AreasJérome RomainPainterToma L.Painter

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TOUS DES K3D

Stéphane ManelWhite lines

SAISON V

SAiSon 52014

The newArtists

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Pixtil StudioSurface pattern & creativecoding designers

Thomas CantoStreetart & visual artist

Pascale RobertPainter

Julien ColombierSurface pattern designer

AVExcitersArchitect & designers

The galleryReeve SchumacherVisual Artist and Musician

Guillaume ChamahianPhotographer

Cheyenne IllustratriceIllustrator

FurnitureCécile GonnardHeritage

Marine AlaryMAchin

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PETIT DÉJEUNER

PETIT DÉJEUNER

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Pixtil StudioBio

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Pixtil is a graphic design studio formed by a duo of designers and digital textile graduate ensci. Af-ter working in different agencies, Delphine Saltet and Olivier Paradeise de-cided to unite their world in a common script. They imagine collections of patterns and textiles for home professionals and fashion. In the interest of modernity, Pixtil designs its own digital tools to propose a reinterpreta-tion of traditional know-how.

In 2013, the studio creat-ed his first collection of bed linen under its own brand. The collection is thought in the interest of responsible production and high quality.

For Au Vieux Panier, the studio has created Wind - a pattern custom paint-ed directly on the white walls of the room. Each element of the piece becomes obstacle and changes the trajectory of the pattern consists of 18000 strokes. Wind is made of creative cod-ing. A gravity and a light wind are scheduled for the drawing up of natural way into the room. Dense and refined, drawing dresses and lives walls to surround you and cause an infinite round. A wall-paper runs on the walls of the living room in a gra-dient density and move-ment.

pixtil-studio.fr

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SUITE POUR 2

XXLSUITE POUR 4

Pixtil StudioTerrasse

Pixtil StudioBedroom

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Thomas CantoBio

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Born in1979, lives and works in France.

Thomas Canto transpos-es his personal vision of his environment on can-vas; proposing an ab-stract and duplicate vi-sion to the disorganized entanglement of the mixtures of his urban life. On one hand, the city in sections of walls or blue prints, on the other hu-manity and its individual-ity.

For his paintings, he draws his inspiration from his memories and his meetings with the city and its inhabitants add-ing to it his own style, with the greatest accura-cy and attention to detail. From walls covered with graffiti and posters to the surreal architectures of his futuristic cities, from the absence of any trace of mankind to his highly meticulous portraits, the artist is all about detail.

Fond of precision work and keen on pure aes-thetics, technique holds a prominent place in his production. His gestures, as well as the materials and tools he uses evolve together with his art, and his work continues to gain clarity through ex-perience and time. The patience and meticu-lousness displayed give an almost industrial as-pect to his treatment of modern architecture; the drips and splashes that are specific to graffiti, are organized in a falsely random equilibrium that shapes the faces he por-trays.

thomascanto.com

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Thomas CantoBedroom

Thomas CantoDetail

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Pascale RobertBio

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What pushes Pascale Robert to paint his friends and family in their worst tomfoolery, for 15 years now, is in between the nasty trick and kindness. Stabbing in the back with cam-era as a weapon around a table during parties when people are drunk, or just cheerful, confi-dent, relaxed. At that time a flash highlights the beautiful glance at the exact moment where we forget our stresses of the day, or social protocols, to found themselves one day, often not in the best, on one of her books . By two resolutely his-torical practices, paint-ing and drawing, Pas-cale Robert combines party culture at work in the studio to pro-duce a cheerful and smart work. Faces, un-likly framing, outra-geous attitudes and inappropriate pauses ... everything usually is forgotten or erased in one second with digi-tal cameras, here it be-comes the subject of an overly precise atten-tion.

And each work, after hours of work, is the witness of a fleeting moment. This contra-diction between the beauty of the gesture and the ungratefulness of the posture (which is not one) forms the nub of her practice.

Did she settled down by proposing for this room masked characters?The portraits are not less ferocious. Like this innu-endo salacious animation hidden by a curtain that allows to be foreseen through a small open-ing, appearances are de-ceiving. Wolves are eggs Benedict and balloons cubitainers. The brat has taken over, the design has spilled over the walls. Leaving only the trace of festive moments of wan-dering, a room in which adults would have cele-brated their intact child-hood.

pascalewobert.free.fr

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Pascale RobertBedroom

Pascale Robert“La tarte Flambée Flambée” video

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- AVeXCiTerS SKÖ

AvexcitersBio

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AVE is a collective of Ar-chitects and Designers specialized in digital pro-totyping and new technol-ogies.

At the border between real and virtual, it tends through the realization of micro-architectures and interactive installations to the advent of non-stan-dard architecture.The group includes audio-visual as an architectural expression tool with the ability to reveal the quali-ty of a place or a project.

AVE is also an Architec-ture Agency using new technologies. The projects are always turned into un-usual treatment of space. The team tries to reveal through Architectural proj-ects the new problematics of our Society.We also work for archi-tects and desi- gners help-ing them to realize their projects.

av-exciters.com

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MPOUR 2

AvexcitersSoft lights

Projection“Mapping”

- JULien CoLoMBier

JulienColombier

LA LOGEPOURPRE

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Dreams Fabrication« Painting for me is an act of appropriating reality. I press this wonderful and stupid world to try and extract some of its poetry and absurdity.I work with mental imag-es, with urgency of tran-scribing them onto the canvas. As in any transla-tion, this path is not linear but it’s precisely the dis-tortion produced by the gesture of painting that interests me.

My paintings evoke worlds without humans or human-related ob-jects. Their atmosphere could be post-human, or pre-human, insofar as the human presence is only announced without ever becoming a clear visual utterance.I never had any curiosity for religion and haven’t received religious edu-cation, and yet my work is influenced by bibli-cal images : apocalypse, downfall, apparitions, di-vine lights, heaven and hell. In contrast perhaps to those archetypes I never stopped referring to the cultural images that marked my teenage years: urban culture and its graffitis, advertising, comic strips etc. Those are present above all in my approach to color, volume and texture ».

Julien C.’s works are scen-ery of dreams. They rest on the distinct porosi-ty between the decora-tive (associated with the interior decoration and graphic design) and the aesthetic-involving new sensible forms and their experience.The influence of pat-terns is made explicit. The pictorial motif is nev-er staged, inscribed in a narrative or dramatized. There are no characters or elements that could interact with one anoth-er. There are motifs that repeat infinitely, just like patterns on wallpapers. However, instead of be-ing the consequence of industrial reproduction, the repetition here be-comes a pictorial strate-gy in its own right. Paint-er’s repeated gestures manifest themselves in the subtle differences be-tween the repeated pat-terns. These slippages give force and movement to the paintings. Move-ment of particular kind, as these paintings don’t allow for temporal devel-opment. The patterns are just there, repeating, from top to bottom, from left to right.What does move is the volume and the texture, achieved through « high-liting », technique bor-rowed from graffitis.

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Julien ColombierLoge pourpre

This is what gives depth without creating per-spective per-se. The ef-fect is one of temporal suspension that could touch on an instant, as much as on the eterni-ty. And indeed, the artist himself refers to his fas-cination with eternal re-currence and a possibility of renewal. Circularity of the sort, that is apparent in his images of waves, clouds, or lightnings: they verge on the terrible, ter-rifying, unstoppable force of nature, while simulta-neously being stylized and inscribed in a cultural history, made familiar and humanized without how-ever loosing a touch of menace.

juliencolombier.com

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- The GALLerY

GALLERYArtists

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REEVE SCHUMACHER Born in the United States in 1981, Reeve Schumach-er is a composer and vi-sual artist. He obtained his degree in fine arts at the University of Miami in 2003. He has been leav-ing in Arles for the last three years.Reeve Schumacher is currently carrying out extensive work on spiral shapes. He likes to ques-tion the relationship of man to nature. Wheth-er through drawing or sculpture, it is inspired by the natural geometry to give birth architectures and creatures of a future time.

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GUILLAUME CHAMAHIAN He is the founder and the artistic co-director of the annual festival Les Nu-its Photographiques, an event that exhibits and supports cutting edge photography. He lives and works in Marseille. Guillaume brings forward an unconscious aesthetic, and is still today extreme-ly grounded in his artistic action. A stateless and self-taught photographer, Guillaume embraces a

certain approach to dra-ma. The human, trapped between his desires for construction, and his de-structive urges, will haunt his photographic explo-ration. In this way he goes on to question genocide, the death of God and the believer, urban de-velopment-often failed-, unique residue of man’s passage on earth.

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CHEYENNELaura is born in 1988 in Strasbourg, from 4 years of art school, various travels and some nice encounters is born Chey-enne.Today, living in Stras-bourg she’s develops her pencil lines through ev-eryday life, dream and po-etry. Today here different collaboration/partner-ships allows here to ex-tend here work on differ-ent support (magazines, longboards, books, tis-sus, piece of furnitures...) as well as here personal work ( paintings, hand-drawed skateboards, jew-elry).

cargocollective.com/cheyenneillustration

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CheyenneIllustrator

Guillaume ChamahianPhotographer

Reeve SchumacherVisual Artist and Musician

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Mobilierd’Artistes

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Today Cecile is focusing on a more personal proj-ect: creating a line of re-stored vintage furniture and designing exclusive or limited edition textiles.

HERITAGE : In essence it consists of armchairs, chairs, benches and a few “home-made” cushions. This collection is both definitely contemporary and inextricably hand-crafted. The idea is to apply a new skin to each object and inject it with a modern touch while respecting its origin and craftsmanship.

Cecile tries to rediscov-er preciousness in the sense of attachment. Go-ing against the tide of standard lines and forms, she likes to take her time working on an object, matching a material with it, playing with its forms, its threads, its marks and colours, giving it back a personality and expres-siveness. Many of her de-signs tease and work the textiles to make them the heart of the object.Acquiring a Heritage piece, is acquiring a story that continues to be writ-ten…

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CÉCILE GONNARD An arts graduate, Ceci-le Gonnard has woven her way for several years through creations, stage sets and styling, interior design and decoration…Always reinventing, her inspiration digs deep into the heart of a new discovery, of a material, a journey, a page – her daily dose. She applies her sense of volumes, co-lours, materials to each object; respecting its or-igin, but also playing with its shapes and its surfac-es to bring out a partic-ular mood: always light, poetic, sensitive.

MARINE ALARYMAchinHer work focuses on recy-cling in this world where planned obsolescence directs our lives. MAchin tries to “limit damages” with its collections of fur-niture, accessories and all kinds of stuff!Over the “chineries” proj-ects and research materi-als and colors, MAchin re-pears gives identity and restores objects.

Facebook page : MAchin

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- SoUnD DeSiGn

SOUND DESIGNBedrooms

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Au Vieux Panier left “Carte Blanche” to the Label Virgo Music & La Dame Noir to create in each room a sound de-sign. Inspired by the art-work of the hotel, Paul (Virgo Music) & Phred (Black Lady) brings an-other dimension. Come listen to their playlists sometimes groovy, sexy and definitely electronic.

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