Jury-GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN / Published on January 14, 2021
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Jaime Bouzaglo
Designer & founder
Jaime Bouzaglo Design Studio
Morocco – Spain – Montréal, Québec, Canada
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE – PEOPLE OF DESIGN VERSION!
What prescient youthful memory relates to your present career?
I was born in a small town between Morocco and Spain. The architecture was white and simple.
Later, I had the privilege of building projects in world capitals, telles que Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, New York… My greatest dreams came true.
Project: Immeuble Ashod, Jaime Bouzaglo
What are three basic rules you learned from your mentors?
Dream the impossible.
Break down barriers.
Freedom is a vector.
What project launched your career?
The CERRUTI store in Tokyo. And that of Paris in 1990.
Any music playing while you work?
PinK Floyd or The Beatles… it all depends on my mood.
Click on the names to listen a playlist
 Pink Floyd – Photo : Source : Vilisvir, CC BY-SA 3.0 |
 The Beatles – Photo: Harry Pot, CC0 |
Jaime Bouzaglo
Do you work in PJs or three-piece suits?
I like to dress up to work.
It’s my way of showing respect for what I do, in occurrence, my job.
What is your current design state of mind?
It’s a special time in which great freedom is expressed.
Casino Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco, 2020, Jaime Bouzaglo
It is with a modern and Andalusian design evoking the Moroccan style that this Casino was designed, located in the middle of the TAJ of Marrakech. The client wanted to evoke the Thousand and One Nights … the interior is worthy of an Ali Baba movie. It’s like a UFO had just landed in this paradisiacal environment.
Franck O Ghery – Photo National Building Museum; photo by Paul Morigi, CC BY 2.0
What past designer/architect inspires you the most?
Oscar Niemeyer in architecture.
Shiro Kuramata in Design.
What is your most marked design quality?
To forget everything that has been done… and to start from scratch.
Like a rebirth!
Waiting room of the orthodontist clinic, Montréal, Canada, 2020.
A cascade of water provides relaxation and relief. We have the impression of being in a bar from where the glass facade allows us to see the city and escape. The colors remain neutral.
How would you like your designs to go down in history?
By their honesty and sincerity.
What peer quality do you most value?
Creation provides great well-being. It creates longevity. It activates neurons…
Chang Restaurant, Shanghai, China, 2021.
This restaurant has been designed taking into account the rules of distancing, and taking into account the pandemic, this is the reason why the spaces are treated as shells that can accommodate families or couples ready to occupy the cubicles.
Which project is the epitome of your work?
The one I’m doing right now 😉
While waiting for the Diva chair
that went around the world and ended up at the Museum.
Source photo : http://www.debarcadere.fr/article3/la-diva
La Diva Chair, permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Valencia, Spain, 1992.
Diva chair by Andreu World, produced in Spain in Valencia and sold throughout the world. She has been part of world famous exhibitions such as Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, Paris, London, Cologne, etc.
How are your country of belonging’s values reflected in your work?
The tactile side of the materials…
And the Mediterranean warmth.
What always inspires you?
The smile of the loved woman…
If a spell were to transform you into an object, by all means, what would you like to be, and why?
The Sun, nothing less! It illuminates the world and sends us a beautiful energy, makes us happy… Light, bright!
What is your favorite place in the world?
Facing the Mediterranean, contemplating the waves and losing myself in my thoughts.
Burj Khalifa – Photo : Donaldytong <https://commons.wikimedia. org/wiki/User:Donaldytong>
What design or architecture project do you wish you would have thought of yourself?
Burj Al kalifa Tower
If you could host any three guests, past or alive, over for dinner, who would you choose and what would you dare serving?
James Dean, Gisèle Bündchen, and Gigi Hadid.
Sushi and lots of sake.
 James Dean – Photo: Harrie Verstappen |
 Gisèle Bundchen – Photo: Tiago Chediak |
 Gigi Hadid – Photo: The Door |
What is your mantra?
Dream awake. Dream the impossible.
What is your dream? THINK BIG!
To receive an order from a head of state to rehabilitate a city or a capital! THE DREAM!
See other projects of Jaime bouzaglo:
Loft Hotel event hall, Montréal, Canada, 2010.
Photo: Maria Salvati.
Event space, surreal with disproportionate proportions.
Espace Cormier on Sherbrooke Street connected to the Loft Hotel, Montreal, Canada, 2010.
Event space, it is a space which gives off dreams by these proportions, during the exhibitions, the space this metamorphosis and the magic operates.
Restaurant Mozart, Montréal, Canada, 2020.
This space was designed with modest materials. This restaurant is friendly and warm. The lighting gives this place a young and relaxed atmosphere.
Résidence « M » gym on rue Monkland, Montréal, Canada, 2014.
Photo: Maria Salvati.
This gymnasium is part of a residential building project that we have developed.
Boutique Antonio Ortega, Montréal, Canada, 2019.
Photo: Maria Salvati.
Located on Sherbrooke Street, the ready-to-wear boutique of the couturier Antonio Ortega, with its needle on the ceiling this space reflects the vocation of the couturier, all in great simplicity.
Magmall Bathtub
Kalou 3 Chair
Taly Divan
Valentino Chair
One morning when I saw my daughter pouring Nutella on the toast. Yes, miraculously crystallizing into a siege.
Cascais Cups
Cascais Picher
Le Belmont appartements, Montréal, Canada, 2020.
The lobby of the “Belmont” reminds us of the lobbies of 5 star hotels. All the furniture has been custom designed for this space. The proportions have been delicately studied for a distinguished and informed clientele who loves luxury. The refined colors give this place its letters of nobility.
Lobby Bitcoin
I was given the mandate to design the “head offices” of “Bitcoin”.
Saint Laurent Lobby
The lobby on Boulevard Saint Laurent. Is a space of a very restricted width. I tried to enlarge it with mirrors to create an “optical illusion”.
Malibu 2 Residence
Residence close to the beach for a small family. It wants to be simple, minimalist and practical. I tried to offer them a maximum of water to better enjoy the sun.
Felida living room
Baloul-Kohen Living room
Espace B
