Julien Colas

马与鱼 (MAYU) is a design studio in Shanghai founded by 小马 (XIAOMA) and 大鱼 (DAYU), two French designers living in China for the past 3 years. 小马 (XIAOMA) is an interior designer graduated in France in 2017 and 大鱼 (DAYU) is a Civil Engineer and Architect graduated in France in 2017. For the last 3 years they worked and experienced different companies in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

小马 and 大鱼 have traveled and worked in many countries like France (Paris), Germany (Berlin), United States (New-York) and Scotland (Endinburgh) before China. Always adapting to the local culture, they worked at different scales such as urban planning, architecture, interior design and furniture design. Recently, they designed and built mainly in Beijing and Shanghai, apartments, restaurants, stores, public places and houses.

Today 马与鱼 wants to experience their own philosophy in design. A philosophy based on the inhabitants needs, and on an interaction between space, materials and culture with the human beeings. They propose in one hand a story taking into account the intentions of the inhabitants, the constraints of the site and also a strong vision of the society.

A society which today is facing some challenges between different values like tradition and modernity, fast and slow interactions, movement and stillness, consumerisism and sustainability. Our design is placed in this “in between”, with a sensitivity and consciousness of those challenges. In each project, we tell a story of our world.