In the wake of the Maison&Objet 2024 trade show, taking place in Villepinte (just north of Paris) from Thursday, January 18 to Monday, January 22, stores and galleries dedicated to the art of lifestyle and decor in Paris are welcoming the public to display their new spring collections. Here is a selection of three remarkable events, which will outlast the fair.
It's the British designer's return to the capital and his first collaboration with French design furniture distributor Silvera. "How we've missed Paris! Brexit and Covid were massive interruptions to our entente cordiale. I felt the time had come to rekindle our beautiful relationship," said Tom Dixon, who in the late 1990s was creative director at Habitat in Paris. He more recently designed the interiors of the Eclectic restaurant in the Beaugrenelle shopping center in Paris' 15th arrondissement and the brasserie at the Publicis Drugstore on the Champs-Elysées.
In Silvera's German-Pratin showroom, this singularly talented designer – he made a name for himself in the mid-1980s with a range of furniture made from reclaimed and welded metal – has presented the latest innovations from the British brand he founded, under his own name, in 2002. There are new portable lamps equipped with the latest LED technology accompanied by huge floor lamps representative of Dixon's exuberance. Voted Designer of the Year at Maison&Objet in 2014, he also presents his generously shaped Fat seating collection, dressed for winter in a soft, sensory curly wool fabric signed by Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat.
Silvera Bac, 43, rue du Bac, Paris 7th arrondissement. From Thursday, January 18.
This month, the designer and visual artist, who plays freely with shapes and colors, has conjured up an imaginary, albeit functional, fauna at the Saint-Germain-des-Prés art and design gallery founded in 2020 by Charlotte Ketabi and Paul Bourdet. Some 30 never-before-seen creations are featured in this exhibition, dubbed "Escapades": Drawings, gouaches, lamps and a floor lamp, a chair and an armchair, two mirrors, a pedestal table and a rug, which she has staged as if in an apartment. For these unique, hand-crafted pieces, the septuagenarian artist has moved seamlessly from plaster to wrought iron or resin, as illustrated by a wooden wardrobe with resin doors, sculpted with two mermaids.
Escapades, solo exhibition by Elizabeth Garouste, at the Galerie Ketabi Bourdet, 22, Passage Dauphine, Paris 6th arrondissement. From January 18 to February 17.
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