For more than 20 years, the Hertrich & Adnet Studio has been writing and staging new stories along with his projects.
Marc Hertrich, born in a five generation family of cabinetmakers, wished to open his scope of work and turned to interior design. After graduating from the Ecole Boulle, he soon joined Michel Boyer, a famous interior designer. Next to him, Marc learns and his master naturally recommends him for an ambitious project: the Richemond Hotel in Geneva.
The refurbishing of the Genevan palace, from a first mission, becomes a master piece: Marc Hertrich, discovering the world of luxurious hotel business, is captured by its excesses, its extravagance and its connections with the rest of the world. New clients call up for his support, the projects (jewellery boutiques and shop windows, restaurants, flats or villas…) take turns and Marc slowly builds around him a team of assistants (architects, designers, decorators…) in order to meet more and more demanding customers’ expectations.
In 1997, ten years after he created his agency, Marc Hertrich makes a crucial encounter which motivates him to partner: indeed, he discovers in Nicolas Adnet the same sensitivity and a creative universe similar to his.
Member of the Lanvin Haute Couture managing team, Nicolas Adnet is the perfect self educated partner in terms of interior design. But his flare for materials, his passion for colours and his sense of details win Marc Hertrich over.
Then a real synergy builds up between the two men, and, together, they develop the concepts of new projects. Each place reveals to them a new scenario to conceive, the target being to give a real identity to each of their projects. In a contemporary architectural language, they personalise each project by diverting and re-visiting history and local cultures, yet using the latest technologies. For each new project, the real challenge is to come up with exclusive concepts.
They find inspiration in tradition, knowhow and decorative arts. A certain French touch defines their work, constantly enriched by their numerous trips, encounters and projects. Their rigorous spirit, tinted with imaginative ideas, poetry and a deep freedom is a great success, in France as well as overseas where the French know- how always means quality and refinement.
Within ten years, thanks to numerous projects, the Hertrich & Adnet Studio team is made up of more than twenty five staff.
When this strong pair imagines chic tables, it is beside big names of gastronomy, like Michel Rostang (Dessirier, L’Absinthe, or Jarrasse restaurants) Antoine Westermann (Goh restaurant and Link bar at the Sofitel Strasbourg) or the Pourcel brothers (Eastwest Hotel in Geneva).
For the Club Med, they found a new lease of life to important villages: Agadir in Morocco, Cancun and Ixtapa in Mexico, as well as Bali. The French Tourism Board also trusted them with the most ambitious and luxurious projects: the creation of the Albion Plantation Village in Mauritius, first 5 tridents resort as well as the interior design of the nearby villas, new real estate complex for the Club Med.
For Accor, worldwide leader in the hotel industry, they take part in the transformation of the Sofitel hotels which take a step higher towards the luxurious hospitality business. After Lisboa in Portugal, the Vieux Port Sofitel in Marseille was awarded its fifth star due to the renovation achieved by the Hertrich & Adnet Studio.
Other jewel of the luxurious hospitality business, which calls up for the Studio : the Martinez Hotel in Cannes the most glamorous stars are flocking into. For the International Movie festival 2010, they delivered the “Suite des Oliviers”, immediately awarded by the Six Star Diamond Award, and six new prestige suites.
The Constance Group awarded them with the « jewel island » for a complete refurbishing of the Moofushi Island completed by a whole set of villas on stilts.
If the big hotel groups appreciate the professionalism and the style of the Hertrich & Adnet Studio, it is also acknowledged among an independent clientele of boutique- hotels willing to give their projects a radiant and specific atmosphere. It is the case for the Jardins de la Villa in Paris, the Eastwest in Geneva, or the 1835 White Palm in Cannes.
Although they are particularly fond of the creative atmosphere of the hospitality business, other commercial projects of architecture and private residences scander their projects as well.
The Hertrich & Adnet Studio holds an ultimate card: the creation of furniture, lighting systems, and carpets which naturally find their place in their projects. Some of them have already been produced by Nobilis and Ligne Roset. Other projects are coming up soon…