LIVING MEMORIES

For Beaumier, musical-service agency Spectre created lively and kaleidoscopic soundtracks with notes of jazz, samba and pop, perfectly in tune with our hotels.

Marine and Paula are two young architects with roots in the south of France, to which they pay tribute in project after project. The proof of their talent can be experienced at Le Moulin and Capelongue.

An Arles resident for more than 15 years, Delphine selects new and vintage books for Capelongue that reflect her deep knowledge of photography and her desire to “offer authors the chance to meet their readers”.

Elsa Noyons is interested in our relationships with place and the different ways we choose to inhabit spaces. For Le Fitz Roy, she created an inventory in blue ink of the Megève region’s pitons, trees, and rope knots.

Antoine Ricardou, Clémentine Larroumet, and their teams have been with Beaumier since the beginning. With a desire to “bring meaning to spaces, identities and visual stories”, they aim to create “a different, more sensitive, less perfect vision of luxury”.

Captivated by the Mediterranean, which laps up to the rooms in Les Roches Rouges, Charlotte and Hugo wanted to magnify the hotel’s astonishing views. The result is a modernist classic with a widescreen vision.

Laure created Oros to promote her father’s passion for wood. Today, she sells wooden objects handcrafted by artisans from all over France, like the round dishes she created especially for Le Val Thorens.

In 2017, Victoire, her brother and mother walked part of the Tour du Mont Blanc trail. Over four days, she methodically photographed mountains, crags and other peaks. Upon her return, she realized that these natural features were like a portrait of her father, who had died a few years earlier. The resulting work, When the Mountain Took the Place of My Father, is her tribute to him.

In their workshop, Romain and Paul create limited-edition and unique pieces of furniture and sculpture. For Le Val Thorens, they designed and created modern, yet timeless textured bowls and trays that reflect the surrounding peaks.

Jérémie couldn’t find contemporary Provençal furniture to his taste, so he launched his own collection of chairs in late 2020. They now take pride of place in Le Moulin and Capelongue.

At L’Alpaga, their first project for Beaumier, Vicky and Julia wanted to “respect the existing interior design, while incorporating the views of breathtaking prehistoric nature”. They later brought that same consideration of heritage and uniqueness to the Fitz Roy and Le Val Thorens.

Colourful everyday figures, both real and imaginary, are brought to life by this young, self-taught artist. Like the portraits of women in traditional costume he created for Capelongue.

Gwenaëlle’s passion is developing short-, medium- and long-term designs that change the classic, ornamental conception of what a garden should be. Her drawings, photographs and contemporary herbariums also grace a number of the group’s hotels.

The heart of Pascal’s work is a visual interrogation of memory and time. For the lobby at Fitz Roy, he created a monumental artwork: a collection of 20 meticulous ink drawings of Alpine landscapes, which resembles engravings.

Influenced by the Vallauris school and acclaimed in the 1970s, Guy Bareff returned to his first love of ceramics about a decade ago, after meeting antique dealers Hélène Breheret and Benjamin Desprez. For Les Roches Rouges, he recreated the terracotta wall lights that first made his name.

With an all-seeing eye, Gaëlle has captured the personality of each Beaumier hotel, starting with Le Moulin.

Charlotte constructs her artworks like architecture. Using coloured paper that she tears, arranges and assembles, she creates abstract forms that are free, structured, open, and complete. She takes the same approach to tapestry, using wool, silk and linen in richly coloured in blocks, like the beautiful work that graces the restaurant at Le Moulin.

“I chose the name Complete Works to express our holistic approach to both art and design, and our desire to celebrate all that is perfectly handmade,” explains Arnaud, the founder of the Swiss architectural studio that has created spaces as unique as they are timeless. He is currently working on the Belvedere and Wengener Hof hotels in Wengen.

Caroline loves to dance and draw. After laying out large sheets of paper on the floor of her studio, she grabs a brush and dances it across the paper’s surface. The result is a “trace” – a composition of abstract forms and bright colours.

Since graduating from the renowned National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles, Stan has worked on numerous projects in Corsica and Morocco, while exploring the world in search of plants. At Les Roches Rouges, he collaborated with Gwenaëlle Grandjean to create a genuine Mediterranean garden.

American artist Rosemarie enjoys instigating a dialogue between colours and shapes, lines and flat colour blocks on different types of paper. Les Roches Rouges inspired her to create pure works based on a palette of blues, from the lightest to almost black.

Her large format images of folded chairs, painted on rice paper, bring a gentle poetry to the walls of Le Moulin.

Hélène and Benjamin specialize in furniture by French and international designers from the second half of the 20th century, including Pierre Charreau, Charlotte Perriand, Jacques Adnet, Guy Bareff, and Willy Guhl.

In Cucuron, far from the hustle and bustle of the world, Gabriel uses ancient know-how to create baskets from his home-grown wicker and wild branches. His remarkable creations dot the rooms and apartments at Capelongue.

After a chance visit to a pottery workshop in São Paulo, Brazil, Florence changed her destiny and made ceramics her life. From Eyguières, a village in the foothills of the Alpilles, she now makes her pieces of clay and stoneware.

“Drawing landscapes is a pretext to stop for a good while and wait while I reach a visionary state that can incorporate me into geological time,” says Gabriel. “It would be enough for me to become the smallest fragment of this landscape to become eternal.” For Beaumier, he created luminous mountain landscapes that hang in L’Alpaga.