For Résidence Vue Mer at Design Parade Toulon, Marion Mailaender creates a fictional seaside apartment that feels both nostalgic, personal and joyfully experimental.

Set within the former Évêché of Toulon, the installation offers another vision of the Mediterranean, far from the simple idea of holidays. Drawing on 1970s coastal architecture, Marseille memories and the atmosphere of seaside residences, Mailaender builds an interior where humour, freedom and personal references guide the experience.

The project brings together local materials, reuse, crafted details and unexpected objects: Provençal marble, ceramic tiles, a platform sofa, sculptural lighting, a plasterboard bed, bronze pieces and design references ranging from Italo Rota to Jean-Charles de Castelbajac.

Through this carte blanche, Marion Mailaender turns the apartment into a manifesto of her approach: intuitive, playful and deeply narrative, where memory, popular culture, craftsmanship and Mediterranean imagination come together.