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THE SELECTION OF THE WEEKEND BY GILBERT KANN, PERSONAL SHOPPER
At the age of 8, he devours the magazines Domus which are lying dawdle in the family apartment. He sees frequently the friends of his parents, scientific bargain hunters who matter among their close friends of big traders. Student, he takes advantage of his journeys to accompany them and to find rooms of furniture of the decorative arts there of the XXth century.
Having been an art director within a big Parisian agency, he dashes into the creation of the famous city guide " Paris Design " (reference of the most beautiful addresses of Furniture of architects and the creators of the XXth century) and will become " personal shopper " for tasteful private individuals as big luxury brands. Today, for Michel Vivien to the "Bon Marché", all call on to his singular look and its merciless knowledge.
To measure the paths of Paul Bert Serpette by his side impresses. It is necessary to say that he plays here at home. Paul Bert Serpette, it is its ground, its environment, its element.
Transferred in the stands of the biggest market of antiques with a connoisseur, a defender of a XXth Furniture of the decorative arts sharp and requiring where a place is always left with the spectacular with a certain sense of the fabrication.
Console, Dominique Mercy, n ° 3/8 , 2015 Galerie Szanto , Alley 3, booth 14, Serpette.
The border between the art and the design was never so porous. When the designers invite each other to the museum, the artists venture on the furniture, signing ultra-limited editions. So of Dominique Mercy, sculptor of monumental rooms, based in the South of France. Quite in transparency, this console similar to artists' workbenches, resting on two trestles, changes appearance in the course of the day, at the rate of the light beams of which revive the golden tones. We place this work in a hall for a discreet but precious introduction.
And Pair of sconces Lunel, circa 1950 Gallery Furniture and Lights , Alley 6, booth 20-21, Serpette.
In the straight line of the console, answers the working drawing of this pair of wall lamps published by the famous house Lunel. Light and elegant, they glide gracefully over the creation of Mercy. Their system of pendulum balances the set. A rigorous symmetry sits a sober and distinguished entrance. We go immediately into the heart of the matter.
"Perseus" bronze sculpture by Igor Mitoraj ( 1944-2014) numbered and signed Marta Bryl , Alley 1, booth 9-16, Serpette.
The classic, it is the timeless. The Greco-Roman esthetics is of those on whom the time does not have grip anymore. Perennially fashionable, it grants with all the environments by giving this elitist stamp of the Classic art. Sculptor globe-trotter died in Paris last year, Mitoraj draws from the Mediterranean statuary the inspiration of a split up, fragile and skinned body.
Table and 10 chairs, Michaud, creation for a hunting lodge, beech, 1966 Joachim Franco , Alley 5, Stand 9- 10, Serpette.
Impossible for Gilbert Kann to forget numerous guests between friends, the endless meetings and the warm winter evenings. This monumental table of Michaud will welcome everybody without doubt. Wide and massive, it forgets not less the design. The drawing of chairs relieves the set. The hot wood invites to remain hours sat at the table to change the world in good company.
Lighting, Stilnovo, 1950 Maggy Bravar Paul Bert.
Gilbert Kann juggles without batting an eyelid with the opposite. To counterbalance the impressive scale of the table, he does not hesitate to suspend above a lamp 50, signed Stilnovo. Of a disarming simplicity, he spreads a soft light for a calmed and soothing atmosphere. The curvature of this suspended sphere feminizes delicately a dining room at the table and at the chairs more virile.
Serving glasses, Boris Tabacoff for the house Baccarat, 1970 Nicolas Giovannoni , Alley 6, booth 8-10, Serpette.
To receive as high as his apartment, the host putting on a service Baccarat of the 1970s signed Tabacoff. Adventurer of the material, this decorator-sculptor who affected the altuglas and the techniques of thermoforming, ventures here on the glass with one of the big names of the glass factory. The foot everything in curvature of the glass calls reminds the famous spherical conferences of Tabacoff but contrast with the square cup of the glass so perturbing the feminine and male codes.
Pair of armchairs Paolo Buffa, circa 1950 and Acoustic Armchair Christian Daninos, 1973 Edouard Demachy , Alley 5, booth 16, Serpette.
As the punctuation at the end of a sentence, Turquoise seating in the middle of the living room is an exclamation point that gives a rhythm to the decoration. These armchairs signed by the great names of XX design accentuate the interior, reinforce it and emphasize their rounded and comfortable shape ensures an incomparable comfort. And a new hearing experience for Daninos. A line without beginning Endless Floating in the living room, barely supported by open feet. Its purity and its fine line temporize the affirmed color of the armchairs that surround it. It acts as the frame of a fauviste canvas:.
4-spoke lamp post, Mathieu pour Lunel Jean-Louis Courbet , Alley 4, booth 174, Paul Bert. Lying beside the Buffa pair, this floor lamp stimulates the living room by giving it an unexpected, unexpected and Player. With its branches that leave in all the directions, it inhabits the space like no furniture and would give the relief to the most sober of the Rare interiors and demands, it assures to its owner a certain refinement.
Coat hanger, Adam Hoff & Poul Ostergaard, Publisher: Virum Mobelsnekeri, teak and leather, ca 1960 Raphaël Druet , Alley 1, booth 136, Paul Bert. It's time to leave the place. To put back his coat that has been negligently posed on the hanger of this discrete valet. Sober and elegant, it combines pure functionality and timeless appearance. Once turned down, it is no more than trompe-l'œil on the wall of the entrance hall. All the Scandinavian refinement is summarized there.
