As spring approaches, a color electrifies the stands of Paul Bert Serpette. It dazzles the retina and marks the spirits. Like a challenge to the sky, still gray, of an endless winter's end, it bursts on the armchairs, the ceramics, the lights. This color is blue.
INTERNATIONAL PAUL BERT SERPETTE BLUE
As the artist Yves Klein made his signature by elaborating and depositing his own blue, IKB (International Klein Blue), in 1960, Paul Bert Serpette erects blue as the signature of spring. It is no longer a red thread, but a lagoon between the stands of Paul Bert and those of Serpette. By touch, the blue is found in each staging, offering the walker a course tinted with indigo. Whether it reigns supreme or is deposited sparingly, the color of the sea is a game to which antiquarians enjoy ease and pleasure.
MONOCHROME OR ALLOVER
Some people make the audacious choice of displaying it on the walls of Paul Bert Serpette: in turquoise strips by Steeve Ciccotti at Paul Bert or on a single wall at the back of the stand, as with Angels Parra To Serpette or Jean-Baptiste Bouvier to Paul Bert. Placed in a frank and luminous indigo decor, the furniture stands out and literally jumps to the eyes. Others, such as Edouard Demachy, replenish their foundations and rhythm their booths with a deep and sustained tone, such as the incredible acoustic armchair seen in some James Bond and signed Christian Daninos passed from its original navy blue to an electric turquoise.
50 SHADES OF BLUE
Indigo, turquoise, ultramarine, denim, pastel, it is the whole range of blue that is played at Paul Bert Serpette. Classic, royal, electric, soothing or vibrant, this color is a bottomless pit of decorative possibilities and it crosses styles as well as ages. At Laurent Vanlian, a superb vase illuminates its window: this 1930 ceramic, in the 18th century taste, is painted in "blue Deck", a characteristic shade of Theodore Deck, a French ceramist of the 19th century. At Antoine Geoffroy d'Assy, blue comes from northern Europe in the 50s and 60s with a sofa Carl Malmsten, a pair of Kerstin Horlin Holmquist armchairs and a lamp published by Falkenbergs.
THE CALL OF THE BROKEN
Spring is not to be missed in Paul Bert Serpette, the blue "has the gift of transforming a usual object into a true sculpture" analyzes Edouard Demachy. Highlighted, enhanced, delimited, the armchair, the lamp or the indigo sofa distinguishes itself and sits a decoration racy and assumed. It is the salt of a sought-after interior for all those who aspire to an elsewhere where the azure and the sailor are everywhere.
