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were to surface through our refreshing design.”
The Café is divided in two separate sections. On one
side lies a long bench, its colors soft and lively, allowing
the location’s natural light to shine. On the other, the
service section is hemmed in a container-inspired
workspace where customers get served as if they were
sitting on a food truck stool, waiting for their order.
Within this workspace there’s even a place designed
especially for the tricycle as there is a little workshop
where it can be stored, repaired and admired by the
patrons. According to Audrée L. Larose, designer
at Les Ateliers Guyon: “From the very beginning,
our clients were adamant on the matter: they want
the bike, which gets a lot of looks on the street, to be
integrated in the design so it can still be gazed upon.
But they also made it clear that they didn’t want the
whole place to be tricycle-themed. We believe we
achieved, through this project, a perfect blend, subtle
yet bold, of their first intentions and our concept to
bring the outside in.”
The conceptual approach to design, from Les
Ateliers Guyon
Les Ateliers Guyon has been specialized in object
design and interior design for over 5 years now and
still manages to take us to a foreign world with every
creation. Félix Guyon, owner and designer, explains
his vision of what design should be and how his evergrowing business taps into that vision: “Chiefly, a good
design must not only meet the client’s requirements,
Café Pista
but also that of the user, while bringing their basic
needs to a higher level. To ensure that the space or
object is deemed comfortable and user-friendly,
proper design always comes first for us. Yet, at home,
it’s still not enough; we need to add some hot sauce to
the mix! Contrasts always find a place in our projects,
just like sweet and salty complement one another.
When this is not reflected by styles from different
times, it can be found in the materials used, in textures,
volumes or light sources that cross and give us the edge
we’re always looking for. Magic, in all its poetry, must
reign over every piece we create, in a subtle marriage
between formal and conceptual elements colliding in a
unique and calculated design!”
Les Ateliers Guyon
Félix Guyon, founder at Les Ateliers Guyon, has given
birth to a second company specializing in luminaire
design, along with its cofounder Audrée L.Larose,
called Larose Guyon.
Audrée L. Larose and Félix Guyon, design lovers and
lovers in life, combine both of their visions and offer a
design both masculine and feminine, where contrasts
confront each other in a meticulous, subtle and bold
design. They tell us their story: “We literally found
each other, we form the best possible team we could
have imagined. Our strengths support the other’s
weaknesses and vice versa. From our often opposed
visions arise results which surpass our first intentions
every time. We like to see ourselves as follows: Félix is
Website: www.lesateliers-guyon.com
a burst of ideas and Audrée is the funnel which refines
and gives focus!’’ Together they become a “dream
team“, as they put it themselves, laughing.
Their combination recently led them to present their
Larose-Guyon Luminaire project at ICFF 2016,
in New York. An artistic installation project for a
few Chicago hotels is also in the works. These two
multidisciplinary designers should stay on your radar,
as it looks like their next projects are going to be more
and more surprising!