The Smooth Palace is an set up developed as a part of the Enjoyable Palace, an initiative of Centre Pompidou x GrandPalaisRmn. The mission is internet hosting the online game Nightcrawlers by artist Alice Bucknell, and a number of design items from the Centre Pompidou’s assortment curated by Olivier Zeitoun and Marie-Ange Brayer. The Enjoyable Palace is developed in collaboration with thinker Emanuele Coccia and curated by Jean-Max Colard, Joséphine Huppert and Alice Pialoux. The Enjoyable Palace is a co-production of the Centre Pompidou and GrandPalaisRmn with the assist of the Chanel Tradition Fund.
Final summer season, because the Pompidou was getting ready to shut its doorways to the general public, we started to think about a nomadic embassy for the museum, which might journey and host its folks, artwork, and occasions through the Beaubourg’s renovation. Its first vacation spot, the Salon d’Honneur throughout the Grand Palais.
We considered this place as a gentle palace, an deal with for giant and small assemblies, occasions, exhibitions, the place to be collectively, play, talk about, pay attention, but in addition the place one might conceal, have a nap, select to be alone, and discover the intimacy of a shelter a couple of steps away from a public meeting or a efficiency.
We designed the Smooth Palace as an unlimited textile floor, a carpet folded and rolled onto itself to grow to be a big garment, of which each and every crease and fold may very well be explored, and each pocket inhabited. As soon as we step on it, we are able to transfer barefoot, lie or sit anyplace, take a stroll between exhibitions, performances, and video games, take part within the collective choreography of its actions and occasions, or peek from the sheltered privateness of a aspect pocket.
Throughout the Smooth Palace, anywhere can grow to be the stage for an meeting, an occasion, or a efficiency, and we hope that each customer will likely be each actor and spectator within the collective choreography of their day-to-day life.
Architects: Studio Ossidiana; Yr: 2025; Images:Riccardo de Vecchi;
Supply: Inside Zine
