The Selection of the Special Days by Anne Bony
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THE SELECTION OF THE WEEKEND
SPECIAL DAYS
BY ANNE BONY
Paul Bert Serpette welcomes D'Days, the festival of contemporary creation, which for 15 years has put design on the forefront, reveals emerging creators and builds bridges between culture, economy, social. For this fifteenth edition, Anne Bony, professor of contemporary design at the French Fashion Institute and author of numerous works on decorative arts, has imagined a journey through design and its history at the Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen. Futur Anterior is a dialogue between objects of the past and objects of the present. To Paul Bert Serpette, the commissioner has endeavored to put in perspective big names, such as René Prou, Charlotte Perriand, Guillerme & Chambron or Mathieu Matégot, highlighting the work of antique dealers, guardians of a decorative memory.
Discover a preview of this journey into the history of decorative arts.
Italian Suspension with 3 adjustable branches, 50s
Simonet Antiques , Allée 1, Stand 33, Serpette
Color, lightness and mobility are the three ingredients of the power of seduction of this suspension. "The fifties in Italy are innovating by reintroducing color in functional objects," explains Anne Bony. The choice of primary colors brings this luminous sculpture closer to a work of art and announces Pop Art. This return of the palette in the design echoes the standard lamp "Orbital" Ferrucio Laviani forty years later.
Table "Java", Mathieu Matégot, 1954
2021 Design , Allée 5, Stand 253, Paul Bert
After the war, designers turned to new, cheaper, more economical materials. Mathieu Matégot plays with the sheet metal that he reappropriates by perforating it according to his technique of "rigitulle", teaches Anne Bony. A dance is born between matter and light, renewed at every moment of the day. An elusive object, this "Java" table corresponds to the well-named "Illusion" by Roberta Rampazzo.
Italian table, Guillerme & Chambron, Your House, 1965
Colangelo Antiques , Allée 1, Stand 31, Serpette
In a country marked by lack and deprivation and where everything is to be rebuilt, the leitmotif of Guillerme & Chambron is rapidly imposing itself: economical, utilitarian and comfortable. Produced in series in the Vosges, their furniture promotes a modest, robust and authentic lifestyle. A generous and welcoming rusticity, even reassuring in a devastated France, their creations, such as this table of 1965, are "organic" stresses Anne Bony.
Floor lamp, 40s
Galerie Fourtin, Allée 6, Stand 81, Paul Bert
"Stable vertical presence", analyzes Anne Bony, the floor lamp illuminates the house with its fine and discreet pace. Anne associates Marie-Louis Gustafsson's "Manana" lamppost with this creation of the 1940s, a creation in reverse of established codes: stripped, fragile, the light stands here in a precarious balance, the lamppost resting on the wall.
High-quality dishes, all eras
The Tables of Eva , Alley 4, Stand 2, Serpette
Before appearing on the plate, sophistication stood on the tables. Glassworks, silverware and porcelain were the occasion to display its power and wealth. Unthinkable not to enhance pastries on delicate displays. Today, as the values and stakes are shaken, says Anne Bony, eco-responsibility is inviting up to the plate and fragile porcelain, Ed Carpenter prefers the "simplicity of wood" for its cake tray "Arbor ".
Occasional tables, René Prou, years 40
Lionel Sanderson , Allée 4, Stand 223, Paul Bert
René Prou, a renowned decorator, among others, of the liners France and the Orient Express, signed two delicate side tables "drawn in volutes and endowed with a luminous function", observed Anne Bony. Like a desire to reinvent this discreet and lightweight piece of furniture in essence at a time when rationing and the effort of war rarefied the means. A constraint that echoes that imposed by the brothers Campana with the principle of recovery built up as a means of valorization of the poorest and environmental protection.
Louis XVI style lounge chair, 19th century
Antiques Voltaire , Allée 3, Stand 155bis, Paul Bert
The day bed that appears under Louis XV, Anne Bony tells us, was dedicated to these hours of reading and reading that Madame agreed between two salons or receptions. The traditional wooden shepherdess is then lengthened so that the mistress of house can relax its legs. Today revisited by Konstantin Grcic, the chaise longue is thought for modern and connected life: the book gives place to the tablet, the armrest adapts and the body, today constrained first, is thought in its globality.
Chandelier downhill of mother of pearl pellets, Verner Panton, circa 1960
Jacques André-Bonnard , Allée 3, Stand 149, Paul Bert
A veritable transcription of Op Art and kinetic art in furniture, this creation of Verner Panton proves if necessary the influence of a Vasarely or a Schoffer on the designers of the time. The accumulation of mother-of-pearl pellets gives a thickness and a dynamism to this luster-manifest, whose light ricochets on these precious scales. Fifty years later, another Danish, Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt creates a "Bau" suspension, this time recommending "the erasing of the despotic figure of the designer in favor of appropriation by the user. "
Mulberry chair, Charlotte Perriand, circa 1960
Artocarpus , Allée 2, Stand 143, Paul Bert
A free and terribly modern spirit, Charlotte Perriand is not less a woman "passionate about mountain and rurality" recalls Anne Bony. A passion that led her to use the straw as an upholstery, contrary to the aesthetics enacted by the UAM. A process committed to a certain authenticity that is in perfect harmony with that of Jean-Louis Iratzoki, artistic director of the Alki cooperative society, which today works to safeguard the craft of the Basque Country through local materials namely oak , Felt and ... straw.