Interior Design

BLUE FUGU FISH FINS

Mathilde de l’Ecotais designs entire environments around a photograph. Depending on the light and the architecture of the walls, she uses a photograph—here, a single fugu fin—to emphasise the ceiling height and the zenithal light falling on it, amplifying its reflections.

This fin guides the eye, creates direction and breathing space, but it does more than that: installed on a movable partition, it resembles a knife pointed towards the chef working at the Teppan built into the central Zimbabwe-marble island. It is the artist’s vision that determines the interior design. With her team, Mathilde conceives, draws, selects the materials and colours, and determines how they are used.

"In an age of everything being endlessly replicable, I love designing exceptional, one-of-a-kind pieces, tailored to the millimetre and ready to make a place unique "

LE DIX Restaurant, Paris 11th 

"For this exceptional Parisian venue, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, I designed the restaurant and transformed a semi-outdoor passage into a champagne bar with curved lines."