France Bittel and Olivier Chanard

Founders of the architecture and interior design agency Bleu Gris, as well as the decoration store Cobalt in Nice, France Bittel and Olivier Chanard all create bold concepts and strong identities. Specialised in the design of custom made spaces, this creative duo have combined their talents in order to develop turnkey projects, where modernity and timelessness are expressed through their sense of detail and the use of beautiful materials. Discover their MOM selection of products.
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MAGIC CIRCUS ÉDITIONS
Pendant made with brass and mouth blown glass in Murano, handmade. -
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LA MANUFACTURE
With a playful design and an inflated appearance, Soufflé mirror borrows the French expression for ‘blown’ to name itself, emphasising its more evident and distinctive feature. A frame by the puffy and light appearance of a balloon hides inside a wooden structure and contains the arch-shaped surface of the full-length mirror. The tubular fixture, while guaranteeing a variable support point, both on the wall and on the ground, it allows the mirror to assume the ideal position, to adapt accordingly to the environment. -
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The ASSEMBLE sofa designed by destroyers/builders encourages exactly what its name suggests: to assemble your own sofa. The asymmetrical cushions are assembled into different sofa-elements. There are single seaters to choose from, two-seaters, corner elements, poufs and side tables to play around with. This sofa was developed to be neither too firm, nor very soft. “This universal fit was a very important feature in my design process”, says Linde Freya Tangelder, the woman behind destroyers/builders. Form-wise the ASSEMBLE was inspired by weathered pebble stones, by ground glass or the remains