Palais Bulles

Also known as Bubble Palace, Antti Lovag designed this house for the French Industrialist Pierre Bernard, and Pierre Cardin, a fashion designer, later purchased it. Its distinctive design is unconventional and can be described as a series of spherical structures interconnected to make a 1,200-square-meter estate. The organic, rounded shapes provide ample natural lighting and spectacular views of the French Riviera. Bright interior walls support this lighting to create radiant, open living spaces. This meant that while the building didn’t have large, expansive rooms, it felt comfortable even with many people. The artwork inspired by Palais Bulles uses colours like the materials specified by Antti Lovag to enhance the connection between the two. The work suggests subtle chaos, recreating the path the mind takes when exploring the building, losing yourself through the maze of bubbles but never becoming truly lost. The bubbles in the artwork simulate the safe havens each room offered in the “palace,” with threading used to run through these, emulating the connection between rooms and the stunning exterior views.