FRANÇOIS CHAMPSAUR
Graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille and the National School of Decorative Arts (ENSAD), François Champsaur founded his own interior design agency in 1996. From his first projects, he tackled his projects of interior architecture such as the realization of its furniture with the desire to build spaces and volumes nourished with meaning, in line with a contemporary art of living.
He has carried out the transformation of luxury hotels such as the Hotel Manapany in St Barthélémy, the Royal Evian on the shores of Lake Geneva, the Hotel Bailli de Suffren in Rayol-Canadel, the Hotel Vernet, the Metropolitan, and the ‘Hôtel du Ministère in Paris, as well as numerous residences for individuals and art collectors. From the arrangement of small spaces like the Café Ineko, rue des Gravilliers to XXL projects or the future hotel project of Ian Shrager in Madrid, with the architect John Pawson, his achievements seek to reveal a greater osmosis between the building and the human.
Today, he likes to say that he is fond of the « imperfect » to explain his philosophy strongly inspired by the simplicity and the well-thought-out handcrafting of vernacular architecture. A supporter of a new model of thought and construction, he wishes to give back meaning to space and support change by moving away from industrial design, remaining faithful to what he has always loved: nature, light, local materials, clean lines.
