About
2022 degrees
87 community-minded, committed students.
Reading the 2022 projects from the Ecole Camondo graduates once again gives a strong impression of going beyond the fleeting sentiment of the fashionable, beyond equipping the students to use their creative, visionary uniqueness, a design school also nurtures an eminently political form of design.
The school, its team and its teachers have set themselves the collective ambition to embrace a more forward-looking and socially-conscious identity within our profession, marked by notions of the user, usage scenarios and therefore the central role of people.
The scope of thinking of these future interior architects/designers is anchored at the intersection between the considerations of designer and architect. It is based on the inner character of spaces and beings, designed to achieve greater freedom from the outer world and others.
Should interior architecture be the starting point, forming a link with the landscape, town planning and art, as it already inherently does with design?
This is what the new generation seems to be saying to us and both their and our commitment must confirm this.
Camondo School
The Ecole Camondo is affiliated with the institution Les Arts Décoratifs, comprising the MAD, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée Nissim de Camondo and the workshops of the Carrousel and the Ecole Camondo.
It trains interior architects and designers in Paris and Toulon and awards a state-approved degree equivalent to master’s level. Over a 5-year course, teaching spans the wide spectrum of professions covered by these disciplines, at the intersection of art, economics, technology and social and environmental practices.
The Ecole Camondo, be it in Paris or in Toulon, welcomes its students far beyond the physical spaces of each of these two sites, into a vast network, a constellation of academic partners, businesses or institutions, expertise and thought.
The Board of Examiners
A degree in interior design is achieved through the special relationship that is established between teachers and students. A relationship of collaboration, trust and discussion that builds from one session to the next in the unique setting of tutorials: guidance provided by eight set-subject teachers, five free-subject teachers and five dissertation teachers. Some are architects, designers, scenographers or interior designers; others are theoreticians, writers or historians of architecture and design; and some work in the grey areas between definitions and cannot be categorised. All of them share a passion for passing on knowledge; they do everything in their power to guide their future peers through to completion of a course, with the award of a degree, the result of everyone’s dedication and efforts. In addition, there are professionals, experts, specialists, those you might call externally qualified figures, who are just as involved when it comes time for oral presentations. They provide a discerning, fresh perspective, on the results of long months of work. They are professionals of architecture and design, teacher-researchers, experts involved in the world of creation or members of the institution chosen for the purposes of exploration for the 2018 set subject: journalists and management in the Le Monde group. This great team makes up the board of examiners. Drawing on the diversity and complementarity of its members, the board receives, assesses and approves the work, not of one year, but of an entire five year-long course. And as each board has its own personality, you might say that this one was demanding and critical; in short, it was an excellent board. We thank all its members.
Topics
Converting the Leopold Bellan Gymnasium
The choice and development of the project falls consciously within issues of contemporary society and is in line with the three areas of studyfor the project at the Ecole Camondo:
- Scenography: Converting the gymnasium into a scenic space
- Great Interior Designers: Converting the gymnasium into a municipal aquatic center
- Spaces for tomorrow: Converting the gymnasium into a refuge
The set degree topic is presented to a panel composed of teachers and external members. It takes the form of a projection enhanced by physical elements to make it easier to understand and is complemented by anything that appears relevant in order to win the students support for their proposals (films, models, etc.).
Agri(culture): The Domaine de Baudouvin, a remarkable garden
Formerly owned by Henri de Rothschild, this 18th century Provençal manor house, with a garden awarded “Remarkable Garden” status by the French state, is an exceptional heritage site that embodies the inherently southern-French way of life and relationship with nature (and market gardeners).
The estate’s new management wishes to task the students of the Ecole Camondo Méditerranée with designing a programme that combines art and nature, or “Agri(culture)”, a term that designates at once artistic and crop-related culture, nature and landscape, art and nature.
After investigation, observation and analysis work, students must set out the major themes of the programme, which will then be applied to all of the buildings and the garden.
They will take the following key elements into account:
- Its history,
- Its environment: a site with Remarkable Garden status and the exceptional unspoilt countryside of the Var as its immediate surroundings
- Its architecture as an 18th century holiday residence
- An environmentally-friendly approach
- The cultural programme
- The smart and intelligent relationship between the interior (interior architecture) and the exterior (grounds, terrace, garden, etc.).
Teachers
Set subjects
- Jean-Baptiste Auvray
- Martine Bedin
- Emmanuel Benet
- Mathilde Bretillot
- Charlotte Julliard
- Marco Mencacci
- Bernard Moïse
- Patrick Nadeau
- Audrey Tenaillon
- Vincent Tordjman
- Evangelos Vasileiou
Outside school members
Set subjects
- Nicolas Delefosse
- Flora de Gastines
- Pierre David
- Marie Christine Dorner
- Yvon Figueras
- Ida Järnland
- Bruce Ribay
- Arnaud Serrurier
- Laila Nady
- Louis Denavaut
- Didier Ferrari
- Selma Sbai
- Isabelle Bourgeois
- Pierre David
Free topics
Teachers
Free topics
- Jean-Baptiste Auvray
- Martine Bedin
- Emmanuel Benet
- Mathilde Bretillot
- Charlotte Julliard
- Marco Mencacci
- Bernard Moïse
- Patrick Nadeau
- Audrey Tenaillon
- Vincent Tordjman
- Evangelos Vasileiou
Outside school members
Free topics
- Aline Asmar d’Amman
- Mathieu Bassée
- Claire Bétaille
- Chloé Braunstein
- Julia Capp
- Javier Contreras
- Pierre David
- Jérôme Declercq
- Louis Denavaut
- Marc Dibeh
- Goliath Dyèvre
- Cyril Feb
- Yvon Figueras
- Audrey Gay-Mazuel
- Marie Godfrain
- Chantal Hamaide
- Karine Lacquemant
- Laila Nady
- Caroline Naphegyi
- Cloé Pitiot
- Laure Pizay
- François-Xavier Richard
- Caroline Sarkozy
- Jean Dominique Secondi
- Giusi Tinella
- Nathalie Viot
Dissertations
Degrees 2022 at the école Camondo cover three main areas of study: Set design, Spaces for tomorrow, New interior designers and underpinning seven themes: environmentally-friendly transition, transforming what exists, towards the outer world, societal issues – social commitment, scenography (ies), expertise new craftsmanship, care. Embracing a free subject requires students to define an area, identify an issue, find a sponsor, come up with a programme, list limitations, implement a method and develop a project, keeping all aspects under control, while reducing any difficulties, whether we are talking about furniture, objects, spaces, uses or all of the above, anticipating every detail of the materials used. All challenges and approaches, from those who seek and experiment, those who build within the existing framework and those who stage live performing arts to those who invent the services of tomorrow. These subjects are often associated with work constructing a well-founded, documented, critical and self-aware rhetoric that each student had to develop in writing their dissertation. It is patient, year-long work also culminating in the production of a written document, quite often an artefact in its own right, the quality of its layout rivalling the pertinence of its contents. Work that is the crowning achievement of five years of study, the legitimate imprint left by five years of work, sharing and creation?; for every student, every year, from every class.
Teachers
Dissertations
- Laure Fernandez
- Aurélien Fouillet
- Manolita Filippi
- Alexis Markovics
- Flore Garcin-Marrou
- Charlotte Poupon
- Julien Verhaeghe
Outside school members
Dissertations
- Caroline Bougourd
- Catherine Bruant
- Clémentine Cluzeaud
- Béatrice Grondin
- Aurélie Herbet
- Véra Léon
- Laure Levêque
- Nadja Monnet
- Nathalie Simonnot