RDAI

RDAI is a Paris-based practice working across architecture, interior architecture and design. It was founded in 1972 by Rena Dumas and is now led by Denis Montel and Julia Capp, with more than one hundred employees from ten nationalities at its office in the rue du Mail.

The agency works at every scale, from entire buildings to interiors and individual objects, on retail, hotel, residential, workplace, cultural and event programmes, for around seventy international projects a year. Its long collaboration with Hermès runs through store concepts and objects, alongside hotels such as SO/ Paris, and the practice received the Équerre d’Argent in 2014. Technical development, material research and data analysis support each project, with the aim of reaching the essence of a place rather than applying a fixed language.