Design with Seaweed in Mind – L’eautelier

2025-09-08

From high-end hospitality to seaweed interiors

Meet Morgan Ræ, founder of L’eautelier and and new member of the North Sea Farmers community. With over 25 years of experience in global hospitality design, Morgan has transformed her practice into a nomadic design studio that uses algae, seaweed and other materials from the sea to rethink how we build hotels, airlines and offices.

“After COVID, I dedicated my design practice to the ocean. Algae can touch everything – from textiles and carpets to furniture and finishes.”

Morgan’s beginning to aquatic living

Morgan started out as a home furnishings consultant for IKEA and went on to design biotech laboratories and libraries in San Diego. From there, she moved into interior design for world-class hotels across New York, Tulum and beyond. A turning point came with the Radical Innovation Award-winning floating hotel in Panama. This project inspired her to embed ocean and regeneration into every design. From there, algae entered the picture: first through collaborations with scientists, then as a core design material. Today, L’eautelier is both studio and host, bringing the circular economy to life through exhibitions, suites and speaking platforms like the UN Water Conference in New York, the upcoming UN Ocean Conference in Nice (2025), the Algae Awareness Summit in Berlin (2025) and the Nordic Seaweed Conference (October 2025).

From suites to skies

L’eautelier designs across various sectors. For airlines, Morgan’s team works on first-class serviceware. Think trays, cutlery, cups and even amenity kits made with algae-based materials. For hotels, the studio creates full interiors, such as the upcoming Seaweed Suite in France, where two spa rooms are going fully seaweed-forward. And the Seaweed Sleep Showcase at the upcoming North Sea Seaweed 2025 event. Next to this, the studio also collaborates with seaweed brands, offices and events, curating seaweed-based materials into every detail.

The portfolio of L'eautelier includes collaborations with many leading brands in the hotel industry and these projects have earned multiple accolades, including #8 on the 2024 World’s 50 Best Hotels list. The design studio is also experimenting with new formats, such as an algae-based bed & breakfast for solo travellers seeking digital detox.

What L’eautelier offers

Interior design services for hotels, airlines, lounges, offices and events
Material curation and conversion: turning seaweed biomass into usable hospitality-grade products
Packaging and private-label design for amenities, including compostable shell-based bottles
Showcases & exhibitions, such as the Seaweed Sleep Showcase at North Sea Seaweed 2025

What they are looking for

Non-food biomass and rest streams from seaweed cultivation and processing
Invasive species such as Codium for experimental materials
Makers and artists to collaborate on dyes, textiles, lighting and furniture
Hotel introductions: preferred groups and locations for pilots and suites

Meet L’eautelier at SS Rotterdam

Morgan and L’eautelier believe in building with the ocean. If you have seaweed rest streams, biomass, or a hospitality connection, reach out and explore how design can turn waste into wonder. Don’t miss their Seaweed Sleep Showcase at North Sea Seaweed 2025 in Rotterdam, where the future of algae interiors takes shape.