No. 04
Studio
Studio Lintel, Marseille
The print shop.
Eight people in a former print shop near the old port. Big tables, one darkroom, one editing suite and a kitchen everybody uses.
No. 01
About
We started with one door and a broken press.
Studio Lintel began in 2012 when Odile Ferrant rented the ground floor of a closed print shop and drew a single house on the old press bed. The house was built. Then a friend needed a book, then a hotel needed rooms, and the studio grew one discipline at a time.
We stayed small on purpose. Everyone here draws, makes or shoots; nobody only manages. That is why you always talk to the person doing your work.
No. 02
House rules
Three rules we do not break.
Rule 01
Answer the door
Whoever you write to replies, and the reply comes from the person who will do the work.
Rule 02
Make it near
Almost everything is made within a day’s drive, so we can visit the maker and you can too.
Rule 03
Show the workings
Drawings, test prints and failed prototypes go in the project file you receive at the end.
No. 03
People
Six of us, and what we each make.
Click a name to see what they have led and how they like to work.
OF
Principal, architecture
Odile founded Studio Lintel after ten years drawing housing in Lisbon and Marseille. She still starts every project by sketching the front door.
MD
Director, interiors
Malik plans rooms from the inside out. He trained as a joiner and still draws every piece of joinery by hand.
SB
Photographer
Saskia shoots medium format and prints in the studio darkroom. Her books have been shown in Ghent, Lyon and Marseille.
JV
Film director
Jonas directs short films and title sequences. He cut his first film in a cinema projection booth and still likes a slow first shot.
AD
Graphic designer
Anouk draws typefaces and designs books. She keeps a drawer of found letters that anyone in the studio can borrow.
RC
Product designer
Rafael designs objects with the workshops that make them. He spends his first week on every project just watching.
No. 04
History
Fourteen years, six doors.
Ground floor of the print shop rented. First house drawn on the old press bed.
Interiors joins with Malik. First hotel rooms.
The darkroom opens in the basement. Photography becomes a discipline.
First short film and first typeface in the same year.
Objects: a table set made with a Sète workshop.
Nine Arches and Maison Linden finished. The studio reaches eight people.
No. 05
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. 06
Journal
Notes from the studio.
Short pieces on process, materials, light and the odd disaster.
Process
5 min
We draw the way in before we draw anything else. Here is what that does to a project.
Materials
4 min
Three things we learned from finishing eighteen hotel rooms in lime.
Light
6 min
How an arched opening throws light differently from a rectangular one, with photographs.
No. 00
Next door
Come and see the print shop.
The studio is open on Thursdays from ten until four. Bring a coffee if you like.