On the occasion of the Puces Festival, Nans Design invites you to discover a new scenography: an atmosphere where the creations of several great designers of the 80s coexist.
The era is intended to be eclectic and plural, mixing luxury materials and formal reflection.
At the beginning of the 80s, by a few designers imbued with a primitive imagination, drawing their codes far back in the past, the aesthetics of interior decoration became partly baroque and non-conformist.
This 80, seen today as “bourgeois”, is extremely luxurious through the use of rock crystal, raw or gilded hammered bronze, as well as gouge-worked oak.
It reconnects with the taste for ornamentation, the sense of color and the alliance of unexpected materials. Revealing a wealth of inspiration and a freedom of creation that blithely sweep away the conventions and dogmatism in force among these contemporaries (think of the Radical movement which opted for stripping).
There is a visible shift from art to object.
Not in opposition but on the contrary as a necessary link in the decorative arts, we find in the same period a reinterpretation of the earlier so-called "classical" style.
The creators work on emptiness, black, interpret in an academic way the furniture present in large apartments such as bergère, daybed, console. This furniture is deliberately large and imposing, giving an impression of formalism but also creating spaces within space.
This is how furniture by Jean-Michel Wilmotte furnishes French embassies or that of Andrée Putman the salons of our most renowned public institutions.
To be a designer in the 80s is to embody a new profession that plays with the limits between architecture, interior architecture, visual art and design where the conception of space is a priority in the creative process.
In our new scenography, several pieces by designer Olivier Gagnère produced in small series in the 80s will be presented, during his fruitful collaboration with the Neotu gallery (Pierre Staudenmayer). From the same designer, a superb vase produced in only 8 copies by the Henriot pottery.
Andrée Putman, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Pierre Casenove, so many representatives of French refinement, complete this selection.
The close dialogue established between the various designers also reveals our enthusiasm for sharing our choices and discoveries.
We are present by appointment and every weekend on the stand to allow you a better understanding of the different movements.
Looking forward to welcoming you to share our passion for Design,
Nans