10 Top Coworking Spaces In The South Of France

People who live in or travel to the South of France don’t just get to relax and play all day every day; they need to work too. Here are 10 of the most stylish coworking places in the region that offer everything from shared spaces, trendy cafés, meeting rooms, and even labs to help workers make their creative products.

ATWORK—Cannes

ATWORK in Cannes offers a stylish place to work. Located near the Botanical Gardens, it has private work rooms, meeting rooms, and coworking spaces as well as a tearoom, Fleur et Chloé for those who get a bit peckish.

Make It Marseille—Marseille

This is a place for the more creative minds as people can actually make products at Make It Marseille It has machinery, workshops, a small factory, a photo studio, and shared coworking spaces. It’s also a place where people can get training to help realise their creative entrepreneurial ideas. It’s reasonably central too.

La Verrière—Nice

Trying to bring independent workers under one roof, La Verrière offers meeting rooms and shared coworking spaces. They offer four different monthly rates—with a one-month sign-up minimum—with different membership benefits on each tier.

Yelloworking—Aix-en-Provence

Yelloworking used to be located in the residential area of Mazarin, but it is now located in a large house near the Parc Jourdan and not far from the centre of Aix-en-Provence.
Yelloworking offers monthly or yearly memberships, but they also have daily rates for those just passing by. The house has calm and pretty outside space that people can work in the open air with a coffee.

Smack Coworking—Marseille

Smack Coworking has a meet-up café where people can chat, eat, drink, and share ideas. Spread over three floors, Smack also has three open spaces to work in as well as 50 offices, two meeting rooms, and a 40-seat conference room. It also has a stylish roof terrace. They offer passes by the hour or the month.

I LOV'IT WORKLABS—Marseille

Shopping Mall

This environmentally-friendly space offers private offices, shared coworking spaces, and meeting rooms. For a monthly fee, I LOV’IT also allows people to use their address as their company’s address. Located in the achingly hip new neighbourhood of La Joliette, it’s near the chic new shopping mall, Terrasses du Port.

The Workhouse Café—Nice

Cafe, Coffee Shop, French, European, Vegetarian, Vegan

The terrace | © Courtesy of Workhouse Café

The Workhouse Café has room for 32 independent workers and offers yummy food. With two meeting rooms and scanners and printers for those who need them, workers can pay by the hour (€5 ($5.96)), by the day (€30 ($35.75)) or by the month (€350 ($416.97)). Among the benefits that monthly members enjoy include privileged access to the roof and the ability to reserve workspaces.

Le Loft—Marseille

Le Loft is located in Marseille’s ‘Vieux Port’ area and is incredibly central. It’s also one of the few coworking spaces that is open 24 hours. It only offers monthly memberships, but it does have a free trial period and members have access to shared offices, a fitted kitchen, table football, and unlimited coffee and cakes.

Anticafé—Aix-en-Provence

An idea that began in Paris, Anticafé allows its customers to pay for the time they spend in the space in hourly increments (or part thereof). Sign in after arriving, help yourself to unlimited food and drinks like a coffee, a slice of cake or a bowl of cereal before heading to a table, and pay before leaving.

Kitchen-Cannes—Cannes

Kitchen-Cannes’ aim is to provide working “nomads” and independent workers with an affordable and well-equipped space to work. It’s an incredibly successful space and can sometimes get full. Sign up to get notified when they have space available to new members.

About the author

Alex Ledsom

English writer in France. Swapped a hectic life in the city of London for an easy-going southern French vibe. I still work just as hard but on my own terms and on my own time. I enjoy travelling, writing, working, hanging out with friends and family... and of course meeting the amazing people and seeing the wonderful things this country has to offer. www.alexledsom.com