Ciguë is a promising union of six architects, established in 2003. Today it has become a large and ambitious bureau. Ciguë designs private houses, restaurants, boutiques and other public spaces, in addition, the company is actively engaged in product design. Fashion houses that have become clients of Ciguë value the quality and style in which French architects work. For Yves Saint Laurent Ciguë developed two corner shops in Tokyo and London, designed the Isabel Marant boutique in Paris, the Céline showroom, the Maiyet store in New York.













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The Australian cosmetics company Aesop also turned to the French, whose boutiques are examples of advanced design. Ciguë has two brand cosmetic stores on its account in London and Paris. Ciguë formulates his philosophy in a short sentence: “In our work we combine mind, manual labor and heart.” The style in which the French work, it can be described as "smart organic". Minimalistic interiors with lots of white, wood and natural lighting are extremely simple, elegant and functional furniture (for example, in the Paris restaurant Les Grandes Tables du 104).


Ciguë does not limit itself to architecture: they try themselves not only in furniture, but also in jewelry, who participate in the creation of capsule collections of clothing. Ciguë was founded in 2003 by six architects: Hugo Haas, Camille Benard, Guillem Renard, Alphonse Sart, Erwan Leveque and Adrian Anfalve (Hugo Haas, Camille Bénard, Guillem Renard, Alphonse Sarthout, Erwan Levêque, Adrian Hunfalv) Today, Ciguë is a team of twenty professionals with headquarters in France.

The team is never limited to design work. Architects are always ready to roll up their sleeves, they are pleased to cooperate with carpenters, welders and various craftsmen in order to achieve a better quality of execution of their plans. And, of course, they took the tool themselves and made things to order, they have kept the passion for hand made from the time they studied in an architectural school.

They love polished concrete, ferrous metal and brass, old wood in the spirit of the Dutchman Pete Van Eyck, but without commercial gilding. Complicated shades of gray or patinated surfaces - they have found their key to modern luxury, in which everything must be balanced. “When you leave school with a degree in architecture, talent pulls you up, but you discover your helplessness over real practice. From the very beginning, together discussing our ideas and isolating our strengths, we worked in all related professions - plumbers, electricians, plasterer, carpenters ... It is important to be in the “thick of things” and know any business from and to. ”




