I started designing furniture at the same time as I started working as an architect. It's a fact that came quite organically: a building calls for its own furniture. Like in architecture, furniture embodies use, structure, fullness and emptiness, volume and material.
The miniature architecture has been incorporated into the Bardo Collections project, which seeks to promote alternative objects and uses, as well as local productions to promote craftmanship and know-how.
The furniture edition for Bardo Collections is inspired by the shapes that form the backdrop to my daily life. The curve of the Gulf of Tunis, the doughnut of Sidi Bou Said, the garden through the window of my office, have all influenced the desks and tables that are essential elements in any house or flat. The desk is used for work, for meals and for displaying objects and books.
The kitchen, which has gradually become the focal point of our lives, is proposed by Bardo as an object of pleasure without losing its usefulness. It welcomes colour and new shapes in the same way any other piece of furniture does. There's a kind of infinity in certain pieces, like the Serpent table, the Babylon bookshelf or the Gabes sofa.
There's no beginning and no end. The pieces can be placed end to end.