Since almost 100 years, Poltrona Frau has been working with the greatest names in design : Pierluigi Cerri, Achille Castiglioni, Michele de Lucchi, Jean-Marie Massaud, Andrée Putman or Cini Boeri… Considered as the “Hermès of Italian furniture”, the quality of production has always been a priority for the company, following the example of its patented leather, Pelle Frau, gotten after twenty one different stages of production and available in more than ninety shades of color.
Hubert Le Gall, Elisabeth Garouste, Franck Evennou, Mark Brazier-Jones : the artists-designers promoted by Elisabeth Delacarte all share a poetical world. The unique pieces or in very limited series all tell a story without losing their practicality.
This Parisian branch of the main one in Copenhagen is of course dedicated to Scandinavian design mainly for the period 1920 – 1925. You will find there the best examples of works created by great Danish masters : Arne Jacobsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Finn Juhl, Verner Panton or Hans J. Wegner.
Félix founded the gallery in 1969 and was joined by Félix Junior three years ago. The space gathers together a panel of artists and of major works for the art deco : furniture by André Arbus, Eugène Printz, Jules Leleu, Jacques Adnet and Marcel Coard, the sculptures of Joseph Csaky, Jean-Lambert Rucki, or Gustave Miklos, enamel pieces by Jean Dunand, but also the Orientalist paintings of Jacques Majorelle and the animal drawings of Paul Jouve.
All the great names of contemporary design are here to represent the art in which the Galerie Pouenat specialized in : ironwork : India Mahdavi, François Champsaur or Tristan Auer who designed very beautiful tables in an industrial style. The Pouenat workshop has also been creating sublime railings or decorative banisters for more than a century.
Jean Prouve, Andre Borderie, Jean Maneval, Pierre Guariche, mathieu Mategot, Jean Royere, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Serge Mouille, Charlotte Perriand : Philippe and Mathieu Jousse really show the best of architect furniture. For more than twenty five years, Philippe Jousse has contributed to the recognition of those designers, all forerunners in the design of their time and who have somehow revolutionized shape and material.
Cassina is probably one of the design editor (publisher) which owns the largest (richest) catalogue of design history : Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Frank Lloyd Wright, Franco Albini or Pierre Jeanneret mix with Ron Arad, Gaetano Pesce and Philippe Starck, in a minimalist and sophisticated space created by Piero Lissoni.
Ria is Filipina and Yiouri is Cypriot, one studied design and the other architecture. They met in London in the 1980s where they both worked for the designer John Stefanidis. Few years later they decided to achieve (to fulfil) their dream by creating their first collection of furniture and by showing it in Paris. Success was instantaneous : the Crillon placed an order for the apartments of this luxury hotel, Neiman Marcus and Barney’s show them in New York City. They settled in the Rue du Bac and since then never stopped creating furniture very inspired by Art Deco for which they have no limits concerning the choice of materials that they use, like at that time : rare woods, crocodile, python, cobra or ostrich skin, but also horn or mothers-of-pearls.
In Paris, New York and Shanghai, the Dumonteil Gallery presents a selection of design pieces, sculptures, paintings and photographs around the theme of Animals and Nature.
Great Masters like François Pompon, Georges-Lucien Guyot, Bugatti, Diego Giacometti, Charles Artus, Marcel Derny, Pablo Picasso, Armand Petersen and Joseph Czaky, and contemporary artists, Jean-Marie Fiori, Helmut Koller, Eric Pillot, Jean- Claude Meynard, Rubén Fuentes, Hubert le Gall or Wang Keping,
The 88 Phillipe Rapin Gallery features a selection of furniture and artwork of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and historical curiosities. An unusual space opposite to the Louvre which features major artists , Robert Goossens , the famous craftsman of Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, Roberto Rida , Marc Bankowsky … The icons of Italian decorative arts : Gio Ponti , Osvaldo Borsani , Franco Albini , Guglielmo Ulrich … And the English painter and sculptor of Op Art, Marc Cavell ( 1911-1989 ). An eclectic and prolific gallery where styles and periods collide.
