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Reverse gradients
This décor uses the principle of graded patinas but instead of going from top to bottom or vice versa, the idea was to create a break at mid-height where each person can see what they imagine.
The presence of the lake has something to do with it, but making a classic universe contemporary remains a difficult exercise.
Switzerland -
Lacoste
On the occasion of a Lacoste retrospective, I was asked to reproduce the tyre marks that a car might have made during a big skid. The use of a painted tyre was obvious but not so easy to work out!
Paris -
Perfume display
Here is a foam model for a sculptural proposal of perfume presentation.
Caron perfumes -
Ets Lelièvre Paris
In partnership with Lelièvre fabrics, here is the creation of a foam partition to be used for photo shoots for their new collections. The idea was to have a material soft enough to sculpt it and rigid enough to hold and support objects in the niches. A whitewash finish finish was requested by Ets Lelièvre.
Rue du Mail, Paris 2ème -
Museum of gastronomy in Lyon
Here are quotes written on the walls of the Hôtel Dieu, where the Gastronomy Museum has been located since 2019. The quotes sent by the Museum's curators were painted by freehand on different supports.
place de l’hôpital à Lyon -
Lodève Museum
Here is the creation of false prehistoric bones for the Lodève Museum. Scans were made from real bones which have remained in the archives of the University of Montpellier 2. I myself was in Montpellier to find the right colors and different types of patina according to the bones originals. Then, I was given the models from the scans and 3D printers. Each bone has gone through time in different ways, making it a very varied patina. All the bones visible in these photos are false and in patinated resins.
Lodeve -
Wooden glasses
For this VIP lounge, it was important to have an idea in relation to the cellar's activity. The use of wine glass in decoration is not new but apparently not in this way. The idea of presenting wooden glasses was interesting to remind us of the oak barrels but asking a wood turner would have been complicated for the regularity of the shapes, for the stability of the wood over time, for the fineness of the thicknesses but above all with the risk of producing many of them to retain only the fifty or so needed for this realization. For my part, I made enough fake wood on different supports to consider it in fake painted oak. The solid glass of the Luminarc brand (Heritage 35cl range) all received a glass hanging paint before being painted, either in powdery matt white or in fake oak to leave the name of the cellar to be read in the middle of these 400 glasses. The structure and support of the glasses were made by the Eusebio Ets in Spain.
MACÁN Bodega, Samaniego in Spain -
The Pasillo
This grandiose passage, both in length and height, is a corridor connecting two parts of the MACÁN cellar. The idea was to use the work of Gilles Chabrier, a glass sculptor, who was installed in the historic cellar. Six glass panels of 250 kg each were moulded with elastomer and then cast in resin plaster to cover the two upper parts with walls for a total length of 46 metres.
MACÁN Bodega, Samaniego in Spain -
Coloured stripes on cracks
Three sets in one for this room. According to my research on new materials, I developed a technique of cracks made in the workshop and then glued on site, in such a way as to let an old decoration show through (the bricks). This room has an incredible ceiling height that I wanted to amplify by killing these colored bands on the ceiling. This principle of strips modifies and creates a strong break with traditional woodwork while respecting it. Without these mouldings, the concept of strips is similar to wallpaper and would be of no interest. They were painted by freehand following all the reliefs.
Switzerland -
El Coffré
Within this bodega, this imposing building "in" the building was named El Coffré by the Spaniards. It contains huge stocks of bottles at a low and stable temperature. Decoratively speaking, it was inconceivable to try to make it disappear visually but on the contrary to enhance it. In addition, I proposed to use it as a means of communication with the name of the cellar, the names and coats of arms of the two associated owners. The large lines symbolize on a large scale and symbolically the "spins" that extend the twigs and vine shoots. I wanted to work with black and anthracite black by contrasting them in a powdery matt on glittering gloss.
MACÁN Bodega, Samaniego in Spain -
Il Vino de Bernardo Enrico
In Bernardo Enrico's restaurant Il Vino, And at the request of decorator Emma Donnesberg, a tangle of anthracite-black and silver bands from the walls to the ceilings was created. Thanks to my friends Florent Marguerie and Francis Llopis for their help.
13 Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, 75007 Paris -
Olivia's bedroom
Fluorescent pink is in the spotlight for this nursery. The stylized clouds and butterflies give a light and airy side. The white, deliberately very present, makes it possible to keep the brightness in the room. With the help of his older brother, the project was a pleasant one. Olivia, still a little girl, will tell us later if this room was made to her liking!
Route de la côte fleurie, Saint Jean les deux Jumeaux in the 77 -
Mondrian
At my client's request, here is an adaptation of Piet Mondrian's works behind a headboard and a small corridor. The strong presence of white makes it possible to keep the brightness of the room while adding touches of cheerful and very present colours.
Rue du Château, Marolles en Hurepoix in Essonne. -
Cherry pastel
This is Miss Z's Room... decorated by Mr Patrick Hourcade (decorator). He asked me to take up and enlarge the sketch she had imagined and drawn on the walls. Only fat pastels could translate the grain and texture of his drawing. The flight of the rest of the room, including the ceiling, is only the interpretation and extension of his inspiration.
Paris 16th -
Folha leaves
Creation of an atmosphere and especially a vegetal "introduction" for this room overlooking the park thanks to the inlaying of Fohla leaves in a taloche coating. These Fohla leaves have the property of being thick, quite supple, and of a colouring that preserves itself over time. They are mainly found on the beaches of equatorial countries. Subsequently, tinted whitewashes were made on this plaster and glued sheets support.
Château Clarke in the Médoc -
Fables by Jean de La Fontaine
Collage in relief of 107 Canson sheets on which were written, by me, with a calligraphic pen the main poems of Jean de La Fontaine. I used a September 2004 reissue that included 239 fables divided into twelve books by Jean de La Fontaine, illustrated by Benjamin Rabier, published in 1906 by the publisher Jules Tallandier. Thanks to a mould, these leaves, maintained by a coating / glue, keep this wavy effect of "wet leaves". The rest of the room received a degraded ivory patina with a wall and a dark "ink" coloured alcove to recall the writing of the poems.
Château Clarke dans le Médoc -
Decorative dominoes
Realization of a series of 13 door faces representing large dominoes. The doors follow one another and constitute a real logical part with a beginning and an end. The doors are flat and the rounds are treated in fake wood in trompe l'oeil to give the impression of relief and depth. This decoration is related to the goose games (see the section floors and ceilings)
Paris 8th -
Red clearance from the 1930s
This small red clearance dating from the 1930s has already undergone several restorations, but here, following a water damage in one corner of the room, I had to take back the nets, friezes and patterns after recreating stencils, in the tones and shapes of the time. This apartment had the honour of hosting our conductor of the Paris Opera.
Avenue Marceau Paris -
SPA at Mont d'Arbois
Here is the decoration of the SPA's massage rooms, including "geological" shapes made of three layers of plaster smoothed and then patinated grey on only 1 wall per room (4 in all). That is to say that the colours of the living rooms can be changed at will and infinitely thanks to luminescent ceilings. The rest of the walls of each lounge were made of gray grayed and graded corded patina. For further information, see under "materials and patinas" the "SPA: indoor swimming pool and jacuzzi".
Chalet du Mont d'Arbois, Megève -
Concrete display stand
Here are some real concrete display cases/showcases. The casts were made flat on real boards more or less offset with deliberately dug ribs. After the installation of the slabs (2 to 3 cm thick), a bleached patina softens the "hard" side of the concrete. The rest of the part has been patinated with oil on glue to give it a slight wear and tear. Note the small concrete square glued to the top of the doors.
Paris 8th -
Vertical white waves
This is a dining room whose walls have been treated with layers of plaster representing mutually overlapping bands, all with a slightly grey patina. Note the "invisible" door whose waves are connected. Installation of silver leaves "torn off" on a black background for the doors and the table (which was previously made of marble).
Paris 8th -
seeds and condiments
In this kitchen, creation of small "niches" in which pepper, broken weights, brown and blond lenses and flageolets were glued to finish. Everything has been varnished in two coats to perfect their durability. Since then, the flageolets have been replaced by pumpkin seeds (more solid). The rest of the kitchen has been patinated with a warm grey tone.
Mont d'Arbois, Megève -
Let's learn Chinese!!!
This is a bedroom with a diagonal interior wall that hides both a dressing room and a bathroom. All the boxes received an imitation canvas on which Asian poems were copied. I do not speak this language but these characters are readable since the French translations are in my possession. A combed patina with gold leaves placed on small fake wood squares constitute the rest of the decoration.
Paris 8th
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Zebra skin radiators
Creation of a patinated taloche plaster on the walls with a full height paneling system and sheet-shaped corners, all in relief. The doors are a mixture of real and fake wood with a small square of bamboo inlaid in the centre. The radiators were given a raised material and then coloured with oil to give the illusion of a zebra skin.
Paris 8ème -
Sweet poppies ladies
On a background of degraded patina and combed in relief, collage of red crepe paper to imitate the "wrinkled" of poppy petals. The stems are in soft relief! Because they are made with an acrylic paste dyed green! A grey sky with a flight of poppies overlooks the entire dining area, which is located in the extension of the kitchen with its red furniture. The table designed by me represents a giant poppy with petals separated by a sandblasting.
Paris 8th -
Colorfull !
Based on the idea of the interior designer Mr Patrick Hourcade, here is a colourful entrance made from 5 matt paints: red on the ceiling, then purple, orange, green and blue on the walls. The carpet was later made in accordance with the entrance. Montyl paintings from Guittet
Rue de Rivoli, Paris 1er
Realisation of curious and fanciful decorative ideas
Curiosities
Imagination and fantasy are the order of the day for this section. I remain very receptive to the most curious and incongruous ideas, as long as the achievements remain within the rules of the art and my abilities. So let's not hesitate!!
