Grand Central Saint-Lazare
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Grand Central Saint-Lazare

Le Studio Sanna Baldé as Architects

Grand Central is a living place where spaces are explored according to one's mood and state of mind. It is a dwelling where the atmosphere becomes a new art of working ‘à la française’, through good entertainment and good food, while remaining simple. The Grand Central reflects the ambitions of renewing Parisian tertiary codes. How can we re-create these standards? By reinterpreting architecture through the body movement in space.

 

For Le Studio Sanna Baldé, dance is a communication tool between body and space. Similarly, the choreographer Germaine Acogny talks about the floor as a partner. The furniture for the catering areas at Grand Central was imagined through a similar approach of collaboration between architecture, body and landscape. The ‘variations’ series aims to increase fluidity of movement, to suggest suspended spaces, to establish others firmly on the ground, to enfold the body and set it free.

 

This variation comes from the simple combination of wood and fabric which is then tailored to each space, as a bench, a stool, an arm chair, a sofa. Once the bench is part of the landscape it becomes a place in its own right, a breathing or a sharing space, a home within the Grand Maison.

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