When you when you start questioning yourself about taste, it’s a bit like questioning yourself about style. It has to be very much personal but also fluid. We definitely don’t like “official” good taste because it’s annoying and bourgeois, and also a convention and a way to crush other people. It’s so arrogant.

We’re Buddhists and the definition of love is to want other people’s happiness. In our work, we try to do things we love and we particularly appreciate giving something that we have made as a gift – another sign of love.

Boring is really the total enemy of creativity, because when you’re bored, everyone can feel it. Same with interior design; you have to find a way to do something that keeps freshness and amusement and a jolliness, you know?

In French, we say “the perfect is the enemy of the good”. Perfection is a goal; it’s something you cannot reach. It would be excessive pride to think that we do perfect things. Something perfectly done, perfectly finished, would be dead. We should be happy with imperfection.

Time is, of course, the ultimate luxury. The Greeks had two words for time: chronos, from which came chronology, and ion, which is time suspended. This is the time of creation. When you’re in the middle of creating, time is suspended and it’s not the same time.

We are maniacs for details. They give you the feeling that you are accomplishing your work. Our new Paris guide is made on letterpress so that the letters are dancing around the page. Quirky details like this, which almost look like a mistake, give life to things.