Atelier Ismail Hutet is an independent creative practice based in Versailles. The atelier moves between art direction, scenography and spatial design, product and collectible design, and interactive experiences.
We collaborate with cultural institutions, museums, architecture and design studios, and artisans, from research and concept to execution.
Each intervention is built through our precise design methodology "Luminotransduction": research, narrative, and human perception brought together so that spaces, objects, and experiences are lived as much as they are seen.

Ismail Hutet is an award-winning Art director and Designer working at the intersection of research, space, and visual storytelling.
Prix du Design de l'Institut du monde arabe
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
Finalist
Doha Design District - Public Art Open Call
2026
Fragments of a Weave
Shortlisted
FROMM.Lab International Design Competition
2025
Minara: Pillars of Light
Selected
AlUla Design Award
2024
Skinlal
Winner
Adobe Creative Jam France
2024
The Essence of Perfume
Second prize
Lebanese Architecture Award
2017
Syste.M
Selected
AREEN Award for Excellence in Architecture
2017
Fabrica
Finalist
Eco-Entrepreneurship Award
2016
Bosta
Finalist
Let There Be Light Competition
2015
Flashes from the Past
Second prize
Toolbox Competition
2014
Point
Winner
INTERLACED: Dialogues in Design
Design Doha Biennale
2026-2027
Minara: Pillars of Light
Exposition du Prix du design de l’IMA 2026
Institut du monde arabe (IMA)
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
Public Art Open Call Exhibition
Doha Design District
2026
Fragments of a Weave
INTERLACED: Dialogues in Design
Alcova Milano 11th Edition
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
NOMAD Abu Dhabi, Inaugural Edition
NOMAD Abu Dhabi 2025
2025
In Transit: A Nomadic Library
Sanaam AlUla Night
Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU)
2024
Skinlal
Artigiano in Fiera
Arts AlUla, Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU)
2024
Skinlal
Le Patrimoine de l’eau
International Heritage Fair at the Carrousel du Louvre
2024
BITS Studio
Biennale Architettura 2021, Co-Habitats
La Biennale di Venezia
2021
Beirut Shifting Grounds
Design & Nostalgia
Beirut Design Week
2019
Memory in Folded Paper
AUB Architecture 50th Anniversary: Fifty Years of Graduates & Selected Works
American University of Beirut (AUB)
2018
Syste.M
Growing Sustainability
Beirut Design Week
2016
Adaptive Landforms
Interlaced: Dialogues in Design
2026
FROMM.Lab
The Space Between
2026
FROMM.
Serpentine Pavilion 2023: À Table!
2023
Serpentine and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln
Co-Habitats
2021
Actar Publishers / Actar D
Materiality and Digital Technologies: Concrete Experiments for the Built Environment
2021
Emerald Publishing
ARD Anthology catalogue
2019
Department of Architecture and Design, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (MSFEA) at The American University of Beirut (AUB)
New Territories: Digital Materiality from Natural Systems to Environmental Impact
2018
University of East London
Apparatuses and Constructed Narratives: The Imaginary Life of Cappadocia
2016
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA / ACSA Press)
Salon Privé Magazine
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
Raum und Wohnen
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
ELLE Décoration France
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
AD Middle East
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
Canvas
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
Doha News
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
SCALE Magazine
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
Interni
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
Doha News
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
AD Italia
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
AD Middle East
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
Selections Arts Magazine
2026
Minara: Pillars of Light
Hia Magazine
2024
Skinlal
Sayidaty
2024
Skinlal
Harper's Bazaar Arabia
2024
Skinlal
Arab News
2024
Skinlal
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Art Direction
Art direction at the atelier begins with research. Identities, editorial systems, publications, and images are shaped into coherent visual narratives where idea, form, and medium work together with clarity and intention. From concept to execution, each project is built as a system: a visual language precise enough to communicate, and open enough to live across print, screen, and space.
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Scenography and spatial design
Scenographies turn research into space. Exhibitions, installations, and environments are composed through light, material, and movement, so that a narrative becomes something visitors inhabit rather than observe. Rooted in architectural training, this work serves museums, cultural institutions, fairs, and heritage programs: spaces that are lived as much as they are seen.
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Product and collectible design
Objects that carry memory and territory. Each piece is developed through material research, narrative, and close collaboration with artisans, connecting craft traditions to contemporary. Conceived as limited editions and collectible works, they are designed for lasting emotional connection, with sustainability, innovation and savoir-faire at their core.
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Interactive and immersive experiences
Digital as a tool of cultural transmission. Through augmented interactive installations, and sensory experiences, the atelier explores how technology can support memory, craftsmanship, and heritage. Guided by the Luminotransduction methodology, each experience brings research, narrative, technology, and human perception together, so that innovation serves meaning.
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Creative Consulting
Consulting brings the atelier's perspective to a project before it takes form. Through concept, research, editorial strategy, and creative direction, ideas are given structure and a clear narrative line, whether guiding a studio, an institution, or a body of work toward its strongest expression. A way of thinking alongside, from the first question to the finished whole.