Travelling With an Eye For Detail: Marseille
When you work for Glassette, inspiration has a habit of following you everywhere. For me, travelling is no easy switch-off. My editorial eye is wide open. A five-minute stroll can quickly become an hour when there’s a doorway worth photographing, a particularly good tiled floor or a beautifully set-up bistro table you aren’t even dining at. Every detail feels worth documenting, and every snap brings my iPhone one step closer to begging for more storage.
On the flight home, headphones on, I find myself scrolling through everything I’ve captured, wondering what made me stop in the first place. Why that particular window? What was it about that dish, that shopfront, that slightly faded sign?
After a recent weekend in Marseille, I realised this is how I remember a place: by taking its details and turning them into a visual moodboard. A colour combination I’d never thought to put together, a soap I suddenly need in my bathroom, a table setting worth recreating at home. A collection of little visual souvenirs that follow me home and find their way into everyday life.
So, here is my Marseille moodboard.
A reason to run, not jog, to ‘Jogging’? The lust-worthy cabinet curated with skincare and wellness brands. Currently searching for vintage apothecary cabinets for my future bathroom.
I fear I now only desire butter in fun forms like these sardines at Tuba Club. Yes, I did order butter moulds when I got home. No, I don’t have any regrets.
Always a fan of a terracotta tile (who isn’t?), but the hexagonal ones covering the floor of our hotel room inspired a new saved folder on my phone dedicated to alternative tiles.
I’m not usually one to go mad for a sunset photo, but the views from Les Goudes offered a different definition of ‘sunset orange’. Paired with the dusty lilac-blue of the Med, it was a true spectacle.
When a room is named ‘Verte’, you naturally expect a lot of green. But the range of shades, tones and uses in our room at Les Chambres de la Relève made me fall in love with colour blocking all over again. The striped tiles covering the bathroom were a particular favourite, as was the frilled lampshade.
Every restaurant we went to served wine in a variation of the classic ISO/INAO tasting glass. Wonderfully unfussy and distinctly French.
How could a Marseille moodboard be complete without its soap? The colours and scents of these traditional hard soaps were impossible to miss and gave me an excuse to invest in a new soap dish.
