AD Intérieurs opens at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
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Chahan Minassian designed a presidential office around a smoked-glass-spangled desk made in 1966 by the sculptor César. Metallic tones appear throughout the space, which contains built-in arches, an encased sword collection, and a thronelike chair by Paul Evans.
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"We found our inspiration in Marie Antoinette’s world of elegance and the excellence of traditional French craftsmanship," says interior designer Caroline Sarkozy. She and Laurent Bourgois chose a settee that once belonged to the queen herself. "Marie Antoinette was an obsessive patron of the arts," says Sarkozy; the designers honored her by commissioning French artisans to craft mirrored doors, engraved 18th-century-style wood panels, and painted motifs to fill their intimate sitting room.
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Vincent Darré designed a surrealist "boxed-up living room," covered in floor-to-ceiling raw-pine planks. Darré selected Accumulation renault n°180, a 1972 sculpture by French-born American artist Arman, and protects it, and the space’s Dalí-esque furnishings, like precious artwork in transport. The decorator, who is known for his diverse work in fashion design, illustration, costuming, and magazine art direction, says his space is meant to be full of "goofy charm."
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Isabelle Stanislas is known for bringing period furnishings back to life through the use of contemporary materials such as steel, concrete, and stone. The designer created a bar and library with a 16th-century Venetian wood sarcophagus chest at its heart. The room contains expansive shelving and suspended seating that extends into a table.
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Dorothée Boissier and Patrick Gilles teamed up with Pascale Mussard, the artistic director of Petit h (the Hermès atelier that repurposes unused leather into delightful accessories) and conceived a his-and-hers work space titled "Le Bureau Oxymore." The two-sided office reconciles Apollonian and Dionysian forces, at once orderly and wild. A leather-trimmed wood cabinet by Christian Astuguevieille stands at the center of the room, serving as a middle ground between the two spaces.
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Inspired by the famed Dominican diplomat and race car driver Porfirio Rubirosa, Luis Laplace and his partner, Christophe Comoy, conceived a Latin playboy’s antechamber. "Luis had a coup de foudre with the desk of Clément Mère," Comoy says. "It is elegant, simple, timeless, architectural, and totally out of fashion." The duo installed the desk among contemporary elements such as a rosewood wardrobe (designed by Laplace), masculine walnut paneling, and royal-blue carpeting.
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Antiques champion François-Joseph Graf picked cloisonné planters, vases, and perfume vaporizers from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties and worked with Fendi to effect "a Chinese pavilion." The imperial vessels accent a chinoiserie-themed room organized by columns, strongly structured furniture, and carven paneling printed with Far East calligraphy.
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Tristan Auer designed a dressing room for the modern-day dandy, selecting "Monumental," a 1970s neon steel ceiling lamp by late architect and interior designer Michel Boyer. "I structured my room around this gigantic chandelier, contrasting it with an intimate space that is for dressing," explained Auer.
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Architects Bismut & Bismut worked from a 1950s brass-and-leather bureau de champagne by Art Deco modernist Jacques Adnet. "When we saw this superb little desk in the collections of the museum hidden under a strong plastic protection, we jumped on it!" says Michel Bismut. The architect and his brother Daniel designed a reading lounge, "an outdated concept" they approached with a contemporary eye.
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Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, who recently designed the new Air France lounge at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, was "seduced" by an 1890 golden wood-and-glass Art Nouveau case by decorator and poster designer Georges de Feure. Cloth-draped walls, plaster screens, a rosé-marble podium, elegant lounger, and a parquet-patterned floor achieve a stage-like setting for work that is both intellectual and sensual.
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For his living room, Pierre Yovanovitch chose a 1926 Pierre Dariel outdoor chair. "I like the deceptive simplicity of this armchair, with its overlapping wooden planks held together with glue," Yovanovitch explains. A stained-glass window and skylight by Ateliers Duchemin brighten the space, which is furnished with a pink sofa covered in Glant fabric.
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In a large room under the nave of the museum, architect and designer Charles Zana carved out a bathing lounge that combines Turkish showers with a gray-and-almond Art Deco bath. Zana picked a 1957 ceiling lamp by Ettore Sottsass (not shown), composed of three colorful inverted metal cones on a rod, scattering light in gentle splashes throughout the space.
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Linda Pinto of Cabinet Alberto Pinto picked a late 1960s pedestal table by metal sculptor Philippe Hiquily for her music/tasting room. The designer filled the jazzy red-and-blue space with furniture that includes a cork bench and a piano that doubles as a bar (it has a keyboard on one side and a serving surface on the other). The bar, says Pinto, "defines the hedonistic atmosphere of the space."
