Studio Lintel, Marseille

Six disciplines, one studio

Booking from autumn 2026

Every project is a doorway.

Every project is a doorway.

Studio Lintel designs buildings, rooms, photographs, films, books and objects. Pick a door below and step into the work.

The threshold: hover a door to open it wider

Five of eight projects. All work below

Architecture

Architecture

Interiors

Interiors

Photography

Photography

Film

Film

Graphic

Graphic

Objects

Objects

Architecture

Architecture

Interiors

Interiors

Photography

Photography

Film

Film

Graphic

Graphic

Objects

Objects

No. 01

The studio

We are eight people in an old print shop in Marseille. We draw houses, make photographs and films, design books and shape objects, and every one of them begins at the door.

We are eight people in an old print shop in Marseille. We draw houses, make photographs and films, design books and shape objects, and every one of them begins at the door.

14

Years in the print shop

61

Projects finished

6

Disciplines under one roof

1

Door to start at

Person standing on hallway taken during daytime

No. 02

Step through

House of Nine Arches

Scroll and the doorway opens into the room. On every project page the cover does the same on load.

No. 03

The rooms

Eight projects, each one a door you can walk through.

Buildings, films, books, prints and objects from the last three years. Pick a row.

2025

Gray and brown concrete hallway

2024

Architecture

Brown concrete houses

2025

Interiors

A living room filled with furniture and a painting on the wall

2023

Photography

A couple of people standing in a room

2025

Gray sand surface

2024

A close up of a type of metal type

2023

Two white ceramic bowls

No. 04

Six disciplines

Pick the kind of door you need.

Each discipline has its own page of work and its own way of starting.

Gray and brown concrete hallway

Houses, courtyards and small public buildings, drawn around one good door and the light that comes through it.

A living room filled with furniture and a painting on the wall

Rooms for living, sleeping and eating, planned from the threshold inwards so the first step feels right.

A couple of people standing in a room

Commissioned series, books and exhibitions, shot on film and printed by hand in our own darkroom.

Red padded theater chairs

Short films, title sequences and cinema identities, cut slowly and lit like rooms.

A close up of a type of metal type

Type, books, signage and identities for people who make or show things.

Two white ceramic bowls

Tableware, lamps and furniture made in small runs with workshops we know by name.

No. 05

Depth

Look through one doorway and there is always another behind it.

Our pages are built in flat layers that drift at different speeds as you scroll. No 3D, only careful layering.

Courtyard entrance to a white building with potted plants
A shadow of a plant on a brick wall
A minimalist staircase with white concrete steps leading to a landing with a vase

No. 06

How we work

Three doors between a brief and a finished thing.

Every project passes the same three doors. You are in the room for each one.

01

Listen and measure

We visit, measure and listen. You tell us how you want to live, work or show, and we write it down in plain words.

Door 01

02

Draw the threshold

Three concept sketches, each starting from a different way in. You choose one and we develop it into drawings, models and prints.

Door 02

03

Build and open

We manage the makers, the site and the printers, and stay until the last lamp is on and the door opens.

Door 03

No. 07

Services

Six things we do, and do properly.

Hire us for one of them or for all six. Most projects use two or three.

01

Houses, courtyards and small public buildings.

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02

Rooms planned from the threshold inwards.

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03

Commissioned series, books and exhibitions.

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04

Short films, title sequences and cinema identities.

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05

Type, books, signage and identities.

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06

Tableware, lamps and furniture in small runs.

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No. 08

In numbers

61

Projects finished since 2012

9

Countries we have built or filmed in

112

Prints sold from the darkroom

100%

Made by makers within a day’s drive

No. 09

Voices

What people say after they have walked through.

They spent a week just looking at the site. The house they drew is the only one that could have been built there.

Claire Aubry

Owner, House of Nine Arches

Every room in our hotel has a story now, and every guest tells it differently.

Théo Marchal

General manager, Maison Linden

The red door made a one-screen cinema feel like the place to be on a Tuesday.

Ilse Van Damme

Programmer, Cinema Rood

They found the letters in our own drawers and gave them back to us at any size.

Bram Goossens

Head of collections, Museum of Print

Our workshop was in the credits, not the small print. That mattered.

Manon Velay

Owner, Atelier Verre et Terre

Forty prints, one winter and nobody rushed. The show looks it.

Aurélien Pons

Director, Galerie Nord

No. 10

Journal

Notes from the studio.

Short pieces on process, materials, light and the odd disaster.

A bright teal door with ornate details and mailbox

Process

5 min

We draw the way in before we draw anything else. Here is what that does to a project.

A weathered red double door under a stone archway

Materials

4 min

Three things we learned from finishing eighteen hotel rooms in lime.

A doorway leading to a set of stairs

Light

6 min

How an arched opening throws light differently from a rectangular one, with photographs.

No. 11

The studio

Six people who draw, shoot, cut, set and make.

Small on purpose. You will speak to the person who does the work.

OF

Principal, architecture

MD

Director, interiors

SB

Photographer

JV

Film director

AD

Graphic designer

RC

Product designer

No. 12

Questions

Before you knock.

The short answers. Anything else, write to us.

How do I start a project with you?

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What size of project do you take on?

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Do you work outside France?

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What does it cost?

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Can I visit the studio?

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Do you sell the objects you design?

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