In conversation with Marilyne Salini

You are a decoration addict, but once you’ve closed aside your favorite magazine, how to adapt the precepts of the experts at home?

Here are some of our favourite personalities who havebeen kind enough to share this vision of interior design. With generosity, they indulge you with their choices, share tips and inspiring advice.

Today we talk to

I’m an architect and interior designer. I worked for a number of years in magazines and became increasingly interested in the idea of becoming an interior designer. I trained at the Boule school of design in Paris (all the while bringing up my two children…) and set up my agency in 2017. I know that some people call me a « storyteller » of places and I love the idea as it really sums up my work. The places that we design are there to tell the story of our clients’ lives.

What is your interior design mantra?

Functional spaces, pure lines, light, warmth and freedom to move about. My interiors can include a lot of white space – I love white and feel that it really helps to highlight objects and areas of colour. Art, ceramics and objects are what really set a space apart. 

What do you think of the concept of good taste?

It’s all about getting the baalance right! Putting things together in harmony is an art.

If you were a room in the house?

That’s a tough choice. I am hesitating between the sitting room where you receive visitors, eat, laugh, dance even, and the bedroom which is something of a refuge, a haven of peace. I think it depends on the seasons, the light, the way the sun falls in a room. That’s what makes a space interesting.

I would be working with my hands so a ceramicist or a painter. My father, René Remer, was a fine art and collotype printer; I can still smell the ink from his print rooms and it’s so nostalgic for me!

A dream project?

To create an agriturismo in Minorca. Somewhere that’s both quiet and inviting.

To buy a painting.

Warm white

I do like to use white in my work but I tend to mix it with wood which always has the effect of warming up a space.

A hint of colour I tend to add colour either through wall or floor coverings or objects: wall tiles, wallpaper, flooring, a sculpture against a white wall, ceramics, lighting, cushions or curtains.

I like to keep things as open as possible but I think it’s important to break up a space with glass partitions or open screens. As long as the light can still shine in!

Let there be light

Lighting depends on the orientation and configuration of each space. Sometimes you have to think about colour and artifical light to achieve the desired level of warmth and light.

Textiles forever

Rugs, curtains and cushions are indispensable in an interior. They are like punctuation and create the finishing touches that you need in any space.

What guides you in an interior design project?

It can be a colour, a fabric, a line. It all depends on the project and the theme.

What is your calling card? A place with soul, somewhere that feels like the owner.