the ARCHITECT
Hugo Toro
Hugo toro
Aesthete at heart
His story is unique. Hugo Toro comes from here and there, from a French father and a Mexican mother. From an early age, he learned to be an aesthete. Later, the Penninghen school taught him the codes and rules of interior architecture. He then added architecture to his arsenal, completing his training at Vienna's Angewandte Kunst University and at the legendary American UCLA. Now, at the age of 35, he is a star among interior designers. The renovated Villa Albertine in New York is his work. The Midland Dining Room restaurant in London's St Pancras station, too. The future Orient Express La Minerva in Rome, it's him again. On all these projects, as at Mas Candille, Hugo Toro uses his incomparable talent to create singular spaces that finely combine cultural heritage and contemporary innovation, transforming each location into a unique and memorable aesthetic experience.
le mas candille
the metamorphosis
Not much remains of the Mas Candille of yesteryear. " I wanted to give the hotel a true Provençal farmhouse feel, while adding an American touch to make it resemble a large Californian villa," he explains. Hugo created rooms and suites that are luminous, enveloping and full of warmth. The carpets and curtains were painted by him before being reproduced, the stained oak furniture is also a figment of his imagination, and he himself hunted out all the objects scattered around as decoration. Every element has been thought out to create a pleasant setting in both summer and winter." We had to make Mas Candille a place where guests would stay for a long time, often for several days. So I had to use codes from the past, which I then twisted in my own way ," Hugo explains. Everything in this hotel is balanced between yesterday and today, but always full of warm tones that evoke the Côte d'Azur as much as the hills of Los Angeles.
