Le Cann

Founded in 2021 by Raphaëlle Robert and Guillaume Fantin, Le Cann studio brings a precise French minimalist voice to interior architecture. The two designers met at École Bleue before training at the most demanding Parisian firms: Raphaëlle at Marie Deroudilhe and Thierry Lemaire, Guillaume at Andrée Putman and Joseph Dirand. That formation shows in every project.

Their practice is rooted in drawing. Pages of traced lines, refined collaboratively, guide the spatial thinking that defines Le Cann's work. Volumes are shaped by light. Clean lines articulate space without announcing themselves. The 1930s design tradition, with its attention to ensemble and craft, runs through everything they produce, yet the studio resists a fixed aesthetic. Inspiration, Robert and Fantin have said, can arrive through travel, a film, or a material flaw that turns out beautifully, and each project is shaped by its own context.

The result holds opposing qualities in tension: rigorous and warm, minimal and referential, restrained and expressive. Sisal, travertine, and brocade recur across their commissions, chosen for tactile presence rather than trend. The guesthouse in Castillon-du-Gard, completed in 2022, stands among their most recognized projects, a 32 m² space where bold architectural gesture and disciplined detailing coexist.

Recognition has followed quickly. AD magazine named the studio among France's emerging decoration talents in 2023. The FD100 Prize and the AD & Range Rover Awards came in 2024. Le Cann is listed among the AD100, the annual selection of France's most influential interior architects. Their work is available on Monde Singulier.