Sylvie Tiago is passionate about the decorative arts, with a predilection for Asia and especially Japan, of which she shows contemporary pieces as well as screens from the 17th century. But she also likes to mix styles with Louis XVI seats or the marvelous furniture created by the artist Louis Cane. Pieces that come together wonderfully according to Sylvie’s love at first sight.
Jean Royère’s works of art made Jacques Lacoste want to open a gallery specialized in design of the 1940s – 1950s and for ten years he has been the one that people consult for an advice or a valuation on the works of art of this great designer. He is also the one who shows this work whenever he gets the opportunity on the other side of the Atlantic. But is does not prevent him from showing the works of Serge Mouille, Alexandre Noll, Georges Jouve or Pierre Szekely.
Every enlightened collector and passionate aesthete needs to visit Pierre Passebon’s gallery. His much awaited exhibitions blend all of his passions, from design and photography to decorative arts.
An antique dealer grandmother, a decorator father, art history studies, Oscar Graf, despite his young age, has the job under his skin. But he chose to focus on a very particular period: the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in Europe and the United States, which his father François-Joseph was one of the first to defend. Like him, Oscar is fond of this Japanese movement which operated in Western Europe from 1868, when the Japanese ports opened up to the world. This current at the origin of many styles was interpreted very differently according to countries and fashions. From the almost contemporary forms of Godwin to the ceramics of Carriès, passing by Edouard Lièvre and the Herter Brothers, the decorative arts were cradled for almost thirty years by this Far Eastern culture which very often appeared as a new world.
Sophie and Mathieu Richard present pieces of the great French designers of the 1950s : Royère, Adnet, Jouve, Perriand, Prouvé, du Plantier but the gallery concentrates on the work of Mathieu Matégot, an inevitable post-war figure. Matégot was the first one to work metal as others work paper or material, by folding it or piercing it.
Both an ultra-specialized archeology gallery which presents almost museum-like pieces and an open place which likes to confront Roman antiquities with the ceramics of Picasso or the work of contemporary artists.
For a little over twenty years, Ollivier, Gladys and Adrien Chenel have formed a team of enthusiastic gallery owners and experts who present these incredible pieces at the most beautiful fairs in the world.
After the Puces de SaintOuen, Guilhem Faget and Alexandra Goult have arrived in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the other design hot spot ! Their Light selection from the 50’s to the 70’s favours Maria Pergay, Gino Sarfatti, Pierre Paulin or less famous names like Ben Swildens or Xavier Féal. You can also spot their favourite artist Claude Morin’s glass creations scattered across the shop.
Eric Philippe particularly likes Scandinavian design but he favors pieces and designers that are rare on the market, so his selection is always exceptional. He exhibits both artistic movements, architects, designers but also sometimes presents collections of objects that he brings together, forming a real aesthetic bias.
The gallery specializes in ritual works from Africa. Whether it be sculptures from West Africa, such as the large Tyiwara crests of the Malian Bambara ethnic group, the “classics” Fang or Punu of Gabonese art, or even the statuary with magical or prophylactic virtues of the tribes Teke, Luba and Kusu from Congo.
For Lucas Ratton, the passion for African art is a family heritage. His grandfather Maurice Ratton, and his great-uncle Charles Ratton, were both gallery owners of Arts Premiers, Maurice in Saint Germain des Prés, Charles in his famous apartment rue de Marignan. Great friends of the avant-garde artists of the 1920s, they were both at the origin of an appreciation of an art that had been underestimated until then.
A pioneer in the rediscovery of Art Deco, the Anne-Sophie Duval gallery is one of the must-see places for collectors of furniture and applied arts. The gallery has represented for forty years the work of the most remarkable creators of the early 20th century: Jean Dunand, Pierre Chareau, Jean-Michel Frank, Armand-Albert Rateau, André Groult or Eileen Gray, but also the creators of the Bauhaus, or the female ceramists of the 1950s.
A researcher of emblematic pieces but also a scout of young talents, Carole Decombe presents both Scandinavian design from the 40s to the 70s, Hans-Agne Jakobsson, Kerstin Hörlin Holmquist or Grete Jalk, as well as contemporary designers such as Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, Isabelle Sicart, Mydriaz, Mauro Mauri or Nicolas and Sébastien Reese.
Ceramics, lighting, furniture, each exhibition is a surprise since it passes from one era to another, exercising our eye on the history of design as well as contemporary creation.
Jean-Jacques Dutko is a multi-faceted antique dealer-gallerist, passionate about many universes. Around the furniture of Jacques-Emile Ruhlman or Eugène Printz, he stages contemporary designers but also primitive art, painting and sculpture, universes that intersect in complete harmony.
