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Photo credit: Häre Christian
Sessùn has teamed up with TABLE to present an artisanal, color-filled capsule, crafted in Marseille from Sessùn’s excess textiles. This limited collection merges home linens and accessories, all produced in TABLE’s workshops.
In their Marseille atelier, Caroline Perdrix and Alice Moireau, founders of TABLE, shared with us the story and the mindset behind this collaboration. Between madras checks and linen canvases, the capsule unfolds a luminous patchwork of patterns and colors, celebrating creativity, local craftsmanship, and a savoir-faire passed down through generations.
The collection is available exclusively at Sessùn Alma, a space devoted to artisans and the art of living.
Alice, Caroline, how did you meet, and what inspired you to create together?
Caroline: We met in 2016. Alice modeled for the clothing brand I was running at the time, Atelier Bartavelle. We connected immediately and worked together several times. I felt a desire to leave behind ready-to-wear and dive into a more personal universe around the art of the table. Meeting Alice gave me the impulse to go further and carry a project together, blending our strengths and worlds.
Alice: Caroline introduced me to Marseille during a second shoot for her label. I had never been to Provence before. I fell in love with the city right away, especially since the first neighborhood I discovered was La Madrague de Montredon, sublime, serene, raw.
How was the TABLE project born, and why choose such a simple yet symbolic name?
Caroline: A few years later, following the release of Alice’s cookbook “Au pays d’Alice”, we had the idea to create some textile pieces for the table, merging her culinary world with my vision as a textile and fashion designer. From that first idea, the urge to develop a true joint project grew fast, culminating in the birth of our brand: TABLE.
Alice: The night before our first deep branding meeting, I dreamed that the word TABLE was hammered repeatedly. The next morning, upon waking, it felt like the only name that could work.
How would you describe the world of TABLE and your main sources of inspiration?
Caroline: TABLE is a brand of color, joy, and responsibility. We use bio-sourced fabrics and work with certified workshops within a consistent CSR approach. We also collaborate with artisans, both in France and abroad. Our creations arise from the meeting of our two universes: for me, color and patterns are essential, then craftsmanship and material guide each design.
Alice: Caroline and I share a love for color and a deep respect for craft. TABLE brings together these two passions through pieces that invite one to set joyous, warm tables, spaces for exchange among those we cherish.
You advocate for local, artisanal production. How does this requirement guide your decisions daily, from material to finished product?
Caroline: Sometimes our production is local, for instance our metis fabric (linen and cotton) for the Carmel and Amarelle collections is woven in the Vosges, and we collaborate with ceramists between Paris and Marseille, or with woodworkers in Pantin.
We also develop abroad, for example in Jaipur, India, for block printing. What guides us most is the quality of the craftsmanship, the way in which pieces are made with respect for artisans, and their durability. A case in point: our placemats are made in Ghana, valorizing the traditional palm-weaving technique. We’ve imagined robust, durable pieces, designed to accompany daily use and resist time.
How did the meeting between Sessùn and TABLE come about, and what motivated this collaboration?
Caroline: I’ve known Sessùn for years, as a Marseillaise. I first worked at the Paris shop during my student years, and later had the opportunity to meet Emma François Grasset through a leather sourcing project. Since then we’ve collaborated across different projects, notably with the Itinérance association, which highlights Mediterranean textile craft and heritage. I’m also part of Sessùn’s mission-driven works council.
For some time, Emma, Alice and I had considered a collaboration around tableware. Since Sessùn Alma highlights local know-how and artisanal production, we wanted to foreground one of TABLE’s strengths: the patchwork work we do in our Marseille atelier using vintage table linens, transforming them into tablecloths, napkins, towels, aprons, etc. It seemed natural to apply that same process to Sessùn’s dormant fabric stocks, reinventing pieces from them.
From Sessùn’s leftover fabrics, which products did you envision, and how did you integrate textile revalorization into your creative process?
Caroline: We designed napkins, towels, tablecloths, oven mitts, tote bags and aprons in various patchwork forms. We played with stripe and check combinations, and also with freer compositions inspired by our usual creation process at TABLE. The challenge was to find the right balance between colors and proportions of sewn elements.
What aspect of Sessùn’s DNA inspires you most, and how is it expressed in this collaboration?
Alice: We are drawn to natural tones, quality materials, and checks and stripes, all of which belong to TABLE’s aesthetic as well. We also admire that Sessùn has been created and led by a Marseillaise woman for so many years.
Finally: If you could imagine your dream table, styled with your creations, who would you invite and what would you share?
Alice: My dream would be to lay a pink-and-orange table, with only food in those two hues (shrimp, upside-down orange cakes, pickled turnips…) and invite all my friends dressed in those tones. Celebrate it all to good disco music, like a cult of color.
Caroline: I would invite all my friends and host a multigenerational meal. We would share a never-ending feast, cooked by the women chefs I have met here in Marseille. Each would bring her universe, her dishes both deeply personal and beautifully crafted: Mina Kande, Zuri Camille de Souza, Samia Benazzouz, and Cannelle Lab.
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