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PIA DE BRANTES 'SELECTION OF THE WEEKEND By PIA DE BRANTES Pia de Brantes is not only a woman of festivities, but also a wise and eclectic taste. She is known throughout Paris and beyond for her great social evenings. Mistress of ceremonies, François Pinault, the leading figures in the art world, gave him a blind confidence and confided to him without sacrificing their most select events.True of Paul Bert Serpette, she comes every sunday morning to the discovery of treasures in the alleys of the market. So much that she passed her passion of the Fleas to one of her sons, now antique dealer alley 7. On a vacation, follow the guide for a summer selection smelling spray and the Mediterranean sun.
earrings, gold and coral Sylvie Corbelin Alley 7, booth 291, Paul Bert outset, Pia de Brantes sets the tone with these elongated loops placed ears are under the sign of the ocean. Finely worked, they combine coral and navy blue with a golden seahorse elegant. A whimsical pair and refined taste for women who never renounce humor.
table, Christian Heckscher, brass and black lacquered steel, single piece, 1972 On 7 , Alley 7, Paul Bert. Gold, monumental and striated with a light graphic design, this extraordinary table is a unique piece signed by the Belgian artist Christian Heckscher. Every hours tf the day, to the rhythm of the variations of the sun, it is transformed by adorning itself with all the shades of gold. True sculpture, it illuminates with its warm light a large residence of seaside, in Provence, Sicily or in Greece, Places that inspired Christian Heckscher in the late 1960s.
Owl, golden brass, year 70 Guillaume Canipel , Alley 4, booth 201, Paul Bert. Curious animal, the owl is a decorative motif of which Pia loves. Here In golden brass, very 70, it gives a humorous and shifted side to a neat interior "I made it climb on a branch of steel and hang outside of my house during holidays" entrusts Pia which possesses the same. Skated by the bad weather, it would become almost wild again, thus entrusted to the elements.
Christ, walnut wood, circa 1950 Marie Boutreux , Alley 3, booth 163-165, Paul Bert. With his false airs of Giacometti, a rare simplicity. Reduced to its most primitive form, it reminds one of a preparatory sketch. So refined that one would almost doubt that it is a crucifix. Walnut wood and Christ are confused and offer themselves in a poetic and meditative reading. Dating back to the 1950s and originating in Brittany, this Christ on the cross institutes a serene and contemplative tone to a house of seaside. Its bamboo handle gives it exotic and distant tunes. One travels with pleasure weightedness of this discreet little jewel and in the tone in which one does not forget above all to slip his plane tickets!
Thierry Atanasio , Alley 1, booth 7, Serpette. This view of the lighthouse of Newport, Connecticut, is surprising.Its perfect original state first, its light then the horizon, the dusty sky indicating a day that begins or ends quietly, calmly, serenely. Absorbed by this navy, Pia returns to her eighteen years spent on the East coast of the United States.
Ceramic , Cloutier Brothers, circa 1950 Pellazzo and Lexcellent Antiquités , Alley 3, booth 12, Serpette. Looking at it, we would almost feel the sun burning the retina. Astre radiant, this superb Ceramic Cloutier Frères still releases the warmth of the south where it was born. This peaceful face that looks at you calls to slow down, to drag, to dream lying in a chaise longue protected from an overwhelming heat by the shade of a palm tree.
Mirror Sun with prisms inclined pan, mirror R oxidized, gilded with gold leaf, 1950 Pascal Weitz , Alley 4, Serpette. To ward off the days without sun, Pia hangs on the walls of his house patinated, oxidized, this sun mirror is all the more warm. It warms an atmosphere by giving it a touch nothing glitz. It is contemplated with pleasure and, when the sky emerges, we delight to see ricochet the rays.
Gilt bronze pedestals , second Part of the 20th century, signed CD, France Fortuné Antiquités , Alley 1, Booth 29bis, Owl, sunshine, hippocampus, Pia likes to bring the outside in its interior. One can easily imagine the large windows of his holiday house open. The garden, as an invitation always renewed to the friends of passage or neighbors. These golden pedestrians as the summer sun are small shrubs where some birds have chosen home. Beautiful perches to keep preciously at home.
Coco lamp Tier "in bamboo and rattan 1970s Artismove , Alley 6, Paul Bert. What, in deco, sounds more vacation than rattan and palm trees? So imagine a rattan palm lamp! Kitsch to wish, this luminaire would brighten up the saddest of summer days. It twists a interior a little too sober playing this humor dear to Pia who knows that in life as in decoration, serious often rhymes with boring.