L’OFFICIEL: How would you describe Festen’s DNA?
This is the hardest question because it is never easy to put our work into words. But if we have to summarize, we are an interior design agency that works on existing buildings whose history we reinvent. Our job is a link between what happened, what is happening, and what will happen later. We don’t want to impose a style. We work mainly with natural materials, and we have a local approach. We want to be consistent and fair with the projects we are offered. We also like imperfection, patina; things that