Mudam Café and Boutique

Bouroullec brothers put up 2 textile pavilions on the stone floor, which act as soft refuges in this sharp light-reflecting architecture. The café is organized around a canteen-style space with two long wooden tables and a “relaxation” area in the ficus garden. The similar structure of the shop is set out like a market stall inside the exhibition hall. “This project is a concrete expression of some long-incubated ideas about building spaces with textile material, as they would be warm and soundproof, like Mongol yurts.” The tiles covering the wooden structures are elements of a new system of modular textile walls developed in 2006 together with Kvadrat, a textile manufacturer. "Be the Artists’ Guest" is the guiding concept of Mudam. Open to the many ways of expression used today, it gives carte blanche to artists and designers to put together the form and content of its spaces.