La Cachette

We continue Charlotte Perriand’s work by offering views and framings on the landscape, transforming La Cachette into an interior landscape to be surveyed, contemplated and inhabited. The path, represented by the lines, becomes the hotel’s common thread. Guests and users extend and prepare their outdoor experiences inside La Cachette.

La Cachette is a place of departure, a place of refuge, but also a place to be explored. The path materializes in many ways. A unique motif of the true topographical curve of the Massif de la Vanoise, the Les Arcs sector and the Bourg-Saint-Maurice valley (based on the IGN map of the area), can be found on the floor of all common areas.

Thinking about spaces also means thinking about their use and accessibility.

The former gallery between the hotel and the restaurant has been transformed and enlarged.

Once a place of passage, the extension makes this space the heart of the project: a central living space open to the outside, housing the bar area and shared workspace. Whether you’re coming from the hotel, from outside or from the restaurant, you’ll be passing through this new universe, that of La Cachette.

The main element is the imposing central fireplace around which we will meet.
A string of lights on the ceiling recalls the traditional torchlight descent, the route and the crossing of the slopes.
The shades of green, grey and ochre used are directly inspired by the surrounding landscape.
The selection of furniture and coffee tables was made with Selency, a specialist in antique and vintage objects.

In order to offer a hotel service better adapted to the new ways of working and travelling, a coworking space has been designed: warm, open to the outside and functional.
The ropes suspended above the work spaces

The very pure glasswork, with its random rhythm, is made up of a set of squares in primary colours inspired by Perriand and acting as dividers.

The light fixture above the bar again recalls the path, the movement, the turn.

The use of a textured burnt effect earthenware refers to the rings of wood.

To lighten the counter, the use of mirrored plinths gives the bar a levitating effect.

Local artists have also been invited to decorate the walls. 4 photographers exhibit their vision of the mountains through black and white photographs: Dominique Daher (5^th floor), Manu Reyboz (6^th floor), Karim-Olivier Bourakkadi (7^th floor) and Alexandre Gendron (8^th floor).

The murals, which vary in color from floor to floor, were also painted by local artist Julienne Rat-Patron.

The Patriarche team also created the new graphic universe of the La Cachette hotel: the logos and its chromatic range.

The logo is inspired by the specific sloping facades of Arc 1600, which allowed guests to enjoy the sun or protect themselves from the snow depending on their orientation.

The staircase logo also recalls the structure of the building with its multi-levels and cascading terraces.

La Cachette Hotel tells a story. The story of an emblematic place inspired by Charlotte Perriand. During the visit, the visitor can discover the photographs of the hotel, as an architectural memory.

The mountain as an external landscape that welcomes us inside. The visitor is invited to walk along the path traced by a graphic and narrative line. This line evokes topographic maps, marked paths and summits. It can be curved, straight or broken.

Wood, a durable material that evokes the mountains, was used for all the signage. The panels and signs thus created accompany and guide the visitor throughout his or her wanderings.