The last to arrive in Saint-Germain des Prés, Maxime Flatry is a passionate young merchant who is already well known to Art Deco collectors. This period that he particularly likes sometimes takes him to the other side of the world to discover pieces by André Groult, Jean-Michel Frank, Pierre Chareau, Marc Du Plantier, Jean Dunand or even Serge Roche. Wonders that he stages like compositions in a gallery which is a very pretty setting.
Amélie du Chalard has created a place apart. A place conceived as an apartment rather than a gallery and which appeals to art or design lovers as well as collectors. Each exhibition is an opportunity for a new scenography and allows you to discover new artists or craftsmen. A joyful, playful and exciting place.
The Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres – Cité de la céramique is one of the leading European porcelain factories. Founded in 1740, thanks to the support of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour, it was successively, over the course of the political regimes, Royal, Imperial and then National Manufacture.
Still in operation, the Manufacture continues to publish objects created since 1740, but its production is also largely oriented towards contemporary creation and its Parisian address is the ideal relay to follow these creations.
Near the Louvre, the Rupture House unveils a permanent collection of Art and Design, but also temporary exhibitions. Conceived as a modern “Medici villa” to better connect brands to artists and culture, this house is a collector’s apartment, a private gallery, a place of meetings and influence.
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Jean-François Foucher presents furniture from the 50s, 60s and 70s: Pierre Guariche, Joseph-André Motte, Pierre Paulin, Michel Boyer, Mathieu Matégot, Robert Mathieu, Jacques Biny, Pierre Disderot and Charlotte Perriand, but also ceramics by Georges Jouve and Italian lighting by Gino Sarfati or the publisher Arteluce.
He also sometimes has favorites and presents Scandinavian or Brazilian furniture when he discovers exceptional pieces.
By presenting a selection of American designers, Jacques Barret, who directs TRIODE, highlights a dynamic scene, little known in Europe, which despite a relatively short history, benefits from a rich legacy left by Russel Wright, Henry Dreyfuss, Normand Bel Geddes, Raymond Loewy, Ray & Charles Eames or George Nelson. Lindsey Adelman, Bec Brittain, Apparatus, Gabriel-Scott, Roll & Hill, Jason Miller, John Pomp, Jonah Takagi, or David Weeks have found at TRIODE a real showcase to present their creations.
Triode produit et distribue aussi sous son nom des pièces exclusives de jeunes designers comme Pierre Gonalons et Simon Naouri, ainsi que les rééditions de créateurs emblématiques du siècle dernier tels Sergio Rodrigues ou Richard Neutra.
Maylis Queyrat and Charles Tassin, respectively designer and interior designer, present here their creations that often pay tribute to the 60s and 70s and bring up to date materials that we love such as lacquered wood, patinated steel and polished aluminum.
Within the Carré Rive Gauche Alexandre Piatti is the only one to defend the Haute Époque and medieval art, but also Italian art. Son of an antique dealer, he evolved in the world of art from his earliest childhood and he is a real enthusiast who likes to show amateurs and collectors all the modernity of the very old pieces he presents. Rare objects, sometimes of museum quality, and whose original use or history is often unknown, but Alexandre Piatti likes to reveal all their secrets.
Yves Gastou is a specialist for furniture and sculpture of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. He hunts for, rediscovers all the forgotten designers of those years. He was the one who since 1985 has organized the first exhibitions in France of Ron Arad, Ettore Sottsass or Shiro Kuramata, that he then confronted with the works by older major designers of the 1940s and 1950s as André Arbus, Jacques Adnet, Paul Evans, Gabriella Crespi, Joe Colombo and many others. It is thanks to gallery owners like him that we now enjoy the return of Art Deco in the forefront.
Chahan Minassian is multitalented : he is an interior designer, a designer, an antique dealer and a gallery owner. He has a passion for the American furniture of the 1930s to the 1960s, he presents, in his gallery of the Rue de Lille, pieces by Vladimir Kagan, Paul Evans, Karl Springer, Tommi Parzinger, Paul Laszlo, Philip and Kelvin Laverne, Edward Wormley, Harry Bertoia… and just next to it, he becomes again an interior designer and presents his style for international customers.
She started her career working with the most prestigious American interior designers before joining Jacques Garcia. Having worked on her own for over twenty years now, Florence Lopez is a trendsetter who hunts for furniture everywhere, creates settings, or works on her own creations inspired by the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. She has two ways of showcasing her work : she regularly collaborates with decorators and interior designers and exhibits her own furniture in the middle of the magnificent settings she creates every two years in her studio in Saint¬Germain des Prés.
Gladys Mougins presents artists who explore very different realms : furniture, jewels, elements of decoration such as lacquer or the enamel, designers who like using metals, steel, bronze, in particular André Dubreuil, or Tom Dixon, Laurence Montano, Michael Pohu, Alasdair Cooke and Véronique Rivemale. The very spirit of Art Deco.
