The studio embraces a detail-oriented and material-sensitive approach, rooted in Bérénice Curt’s passion for craftsmanship. Their work focuses on preserving and enhancing existing structures, consistently favoring thoughtful transformation over demolition. From extensions and rooftop additions to furniture designed from leftover materials, each project reflects a commitment to sustainability and creative reuse — advocating preservation over waste, at every scale.

Projects arise from eclectic encounters and a design process shaped by years of collaboration. This process is open-ended and incremental. It involves exhausting the subject: grasping the behavior of environmental and spatial elements, uncovering their potential and ambiguities, optimizing function, and exploring various scenarios — until the most relevant one emerges.

Architectural projects have offered opportunities to develop central features around which the designs take shape, in partnership with renowned French and Italian artisans and suppliers. These collaborations provide access to traditional know-how and help to nurture and expand the artisans’ skills. Here, design serves the material — both to highlight its inherent value and to challenge its technical limits. From the use of raw, monolithic marble to the subtle interplay of different wood species, each piece reflects meticulous attention to detail and a refined architectural aesthetic.