The studio brings together about ten experts who are assigned to projects as needed: engineers, modelers, plastics engineers, graphic designers, and model makers; and, for architectural design, architects, urban planners, and landscape architects.
OUR EXPERTISE
Product Design
To live better—because when something is well thought out and well designed, a smart object or service will always be a source of pleasure.
The user is always at the heart of the design process. Designing a product means solving a complex equation that combines aesthetics, market trends, technical feasibility, and manufacturing costs, with a common thread that is always centered on people and their desires.
For large corporations, small and medium-sized businesses, or startups
Urban Design
To foster appreciation for, promote, and enhance the city’s public spaces, heritage, and landscapes.
Urban design is a world of its own. It intersects with architecture and its sophisticated codes, history, and the spirit of the city. It is oriented toward the long term, a kind of timelessness on the scale of the urban spaces it enhances. Users are always at the center of the approach, but viewed through a broader lens. When it comes to lighting, the products lead a double life: by day, the objects interact with the city’s scale, and by night, only silhouettes and luminous atmospheres remain.
For small and medium-sized businesses and large corporations, as well as for cities and public institutions.
Luxury Design
To experience a unique, timeless, and exceptional moment through an object or a space.
Luxury design is a world unto itself—one of excess and unique creative vision, where distinction is its defining characteristic. It is built on the excellence of materials, the most refined artisanal techniques, time-honored craftsmanship, and an unwavering commitment to quality. The user seeks out this uniqueness and its value, turning it into an object of passion, reverence, and investment.
For companies seeking new horizons for their expertise in excellence.
Space Design
It allows us to create living spaces in which every element has a purpose and a sensory quality tailored to its users.
Spatial design, or architectural design, represents another dimension of design, as it places the user within the object itself. The user’s perception becomes multisensory and is also experienced through movement as they navigate spaces and their rhythms, light, sounds, and so on… Different spaces layer functions and identities, with languages that intersect
For builders, developers, large public and private corporations, small and medium-sized businesses, the hospitality industry, and retail chains seeking elegant solutions.
Expert Assignments
To help you answer a strategic question about your brand, your products, your offering, or its appeal.
We put our more than 35 years of experience at your service to guide you and help you make the right choices, implement them, and turn them into success.
For small and medium-sized businesses, large corporations, startups, and public and private institutions.
A DPLG-certified architect and designer, Michel Tortel has won numerous international awards. From iconic contemporary homes to furniture and even helicopters, his wide range of knowledge and expertise has been honed through several hundred projects.
His internationally acclaimed work in urban lighting has captivated the world’s largest cities for decades, placing him at the heart of our daily lives. Among other projects, he designed the main streetlights for the city of Paris and illuminates the Bund in Shanghai.
Committed to protecting the planet, he designs all his products to have the longest possible lifespan in order to reduce resource consumption.
A shared culture.
