Yasmine, an interior architect trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (ENSAD), and Mehdi, a civil engineer graduated from the Université de Bretagne Sud in Lorient (UBS), founded ALTIN in 2023. Although the studio is recent, it is the culmination of fourteen years of intensive exploration of Tunisian territory and close collaborations with its artisans. Through their design, they materialize the essence of this land: deep woods, fertile sandy clay, raw stones, and starry skies.
Crédit photo : Studio Brinth
To transform these resources, they rely on expertise acquired over the years and draw inspiration from craftsmanship whose techniques sometimes date back to the Neolithic era, positioning themselves as carriers of a “collective and ancestral knowledge shared by all peoples.”
“We are searching for that bond which unites us all and traces back to the earliest beginnings of humanity. Rediscovering it means invoking the relationship our ancestors once had with the living world: respect for nature and intelligence in the use of resources.”
Crédit photo : Studio Brinth
The “Jabal” console (Mountain), a unique piece to be auctioned on April 16 at Piasa (estimate: €12,000 / €18,000), embodies this poetic and singular approach. Composed of five legs resembling obelisks shaped by wind and ancient distant seas, it draws its strength from the rich, deep texture of palm wood. Each leg is handcrafted, making the base an organic structure where the artisan’s gesture is ever-present.
The top, made of perforated steel, hand-ground and scalloped along the edge, appears as though it has been altered by the passage of millennia. The whole forms a complete dialogue between architectural rigor and artisanal emotion. In encountering this organic minimalism, what stands before us is no longer simply a design object, but the soul of a landscape and of a shared humanity—making each creation, as the sale’s title suggests, a heritage of the future.
