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team explains. "They also characterize a craftsman and an art of
living. . .outside, with the heat of the sun, stored in the hot stones."
Staged as an exhibition space for objects, Sessun Alma calls to
mind the domestic domain of a curator. Yet every item in the store is for
purchase. The canopy is a shelf support for cosmetics. The kitchen,
stock and boxes are concealed behind hammered glass covered
with plants. "What we usually hide is staged here to create depth and
make the scenography useful," say the architects. Wooden tables
are long, like shelves, and the staff library takes up an entire section
of wall. The partitioning of the extra-large fitting rooms serve as an
exhibition wall for selected pieces, while large steps offer seating or
support for baskets of fruit and other goods. "We have worked for a
long time on the display of the various objects to be exhibited," they
add. "On a base, suspended, on a table, on shelves, dense and
punctual." All is a product of their precise thinking.
As the world re-enters life, Sessun Alma suggests a new
way that "life" might be lived. Certainly with the savior faire of
a well-defined space. But perhaps more slowly, where one
is at the center of their existence, surrounded with a few truly
beautiful objects rather than residing on its more congested
peripheries. This is not unlike how Marion Bernard views its own
work. "Like Emma [Francois]," the creator of Sessun, "we have
a real attraction for artisanal production. We claim experimental
collaborations, and work on matter, in situ." marionbernard.com
