Marion Moustey et Ewerton Alves

Le Bureau du poète
The Poet’s Office is an interior architecture proposal conceived as a retreat space and an ode to slowness. The project is rooted in Mediterranean territory and draws upon local resources to construct a sober and contextualised material narrative.
The space is deliberately reduced to essentials: a desk, seating, a rug, and a curtain. Each element is conceived as a presence, not as decoration. The desk, substantial and mineral, asserts an almost archaic stability. It dialogues with a woven rug made from dried lavender, whose texture diffuses an olfactory and sensory dimension. The curtain, lightweight, filters light and introduces continuous atmospheric variation. The ensemble comprises a quiet room, traversed by wind and light.
The project explores the concept of «building with»: building with the earth, working with plants, creating with available resources. It does not seek accumulation but rather rightness. Materials are left legible, little transformed, so that their origin remains perceptible. This economy of means produces spatial intensity, where every gesture counts.
The Poet’s Office thus questions the very function of work and creation: how to design a space that is not productive in the industrial sense, but fertile in the sensory sense? Architecture becomes here a support for attention, a framework for writing, and ultimately a device for listening to the territory.