Our article will be useful to everyone who is in love withdesign, who are close to the French style, as well as those who are going to visit Paris and find something amazing for their interior We will not tell you about museums and parks, we will not take you to a flea market. Our travel notes are not about this. But you will get acquainted with amazing French brands, visits to showrooms, a royal reception and the Eiffel Tower, which we will show you from an unexpected side. 130 years of Moissonnier
You've probably seen an advertisement for the factory chest of drawersMoissonnier: pink, pot-bellied, with three drawers, so cute, so French, so desirable. This year the factory celebrated its 130th anniversary. The party was held in the Parisian showroom in the Saint-Germain district. Champagne flowed like a river and everyone admired the new beautiful colored boiserie of the factory in dizzying delight. Moissonnier has always loved color, there was never anything beige or gray here. Fuchsia, turquoise, the color of the first grass, lemon yellow, emerald - while maintaining the traditional forms for each historical style, the factory's designers allowed themselves to remove some of the decor, compensating for its deficiency with an abundance of bright color. We liked the living room, in which so many delightful shades were mixed.
If you are in Paris, take a look here at 52 Rue de l'Université, you will admire the factory's items and be inspired to use colour in your interior.
170 years of Yves Delorme This French brandhome textiles are known all over the world. The quality and design of Yves Delorme bed linen are truly royal, so the company celebrated its birthday in royal style. The editors have not seen such a palace reception for a long time. On September 6, Yves Delorme gathered 300 guests from all over the world in the famous Salomon de Rothschild mansion. The luxurious interiors of this architectural monument of the 19th century served as a wonderful backdrop for the presentation of the magnificent collections of bed linen of the above-mentioned brand. Each room of the mansion was decorated in such a way as to emphasize the advantages of a particular line of textiles; especially for this event, the mansion was illuminated with subdued light of different shades. Enchanting classical music played throughout the evening. Guests had the opportunity to talk with the head of the Fremaux Delorme holding Dominique Fremaux, with the new chief designer of Yves Delorme Laurence Rouet, and also with Slava Zaitsev, who has been the head of the Yves Delorme representative office in Russia and the CIS for 20 years. In general, everyone who was able to get here will remember the party for the next five to seven years for sure. We will not provide the addresses of all 12 Yves Delorme boutiques in Paris, but on the main shopping street of Paris it is Rue Saint Honoré, 153; in Moscow, of the three boutiques, the most famous is located on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 26, building 1; in St. Petersburg, there are also several boutiques of this expensive lingerie.
Promemoria Anniversary in a Closed Circle 10th AnniversaryThe event of the Parisian boutique Promemoria, on the contrary, was celebrated in a narrow, almost family circle. The small showroom at 35 Rue de Bellechasse was so full that there was no room to swing a cat. The editors recognized several Russian architects and designers among the guests. This “home” party could be heard from afar: the guests went outside and continued to chat, standing in front of the shop windows, fortunately the weather was good, and there was no end to the treats and delicacies. The star of the evening was unexpectedly the architect Tatyana Mironova, who brought to Paris a proof copy of the second and third volumes of the book of her selected interiors. There was no end to those wishing to see the luxurious edition. You can get acquainted with the masterpieces of Promemoria not only in Paris and Milan, but also in Moscow, at 7 Smolenskaya Street.
The Eiffel Tower and its toilets Who hasn't seen it!It has been standing on the Champ de Mars since 1889. Every visitor considers it their duty to take a photo against the backdrop of its powerful torso. The tower has long since become an integral symbol of Paris, but Parisians did not immediately recognize its right to exist. After the tower was built for the international exhibition (it was initially assumed that the tower would be a temporary structure), a wave of protests swept not only Paris, but all of France. To their shame, the protest was supported even by prominent scientists, artists and art figures - 300 people, even during its construction, demanded that “this monster” not be allowed to be built. It seemed to them a monster that spoiled the entire historical appearance of the city. By the way, the tower changed color several times after its construction. And right at the beginning of its existence, it was not brown-gray (the now patented color of the Eiffel Tower), but ... red! That marvelous “Venetian” red color, which is more similar in tone to a pioneer tie than to the red that is used to dress the seats in the auditoriums. The story about the red was raised not so long ago, when companies and specialists from a variety of fields were invited to reconstruct the tower. The plumbing company Roca, which was engaged in the arrangement of the toilets, also took part in this. And here the story about the red tower took a new turn. It was decided to design the toilets on the first platform in red, and for this purpose the Roca company was ordered special sanitary ceramics - in that very “Venetian” red color. The editors have already written about these toilets, but having arrived in Paris, we realized that our journalistic duty obliged us to see them with our own eyes. Yes! We were here and took pictures of them, and climbed the tower, and in addition to the toilet, we also found an elevator wheel painted in this wonderful red. And in addition, we found several places where the native color of the architectural muse of Paris is visible under the peeling gray paint. We won’t give the address, you all know it.
The standard of Limoges porcelain In the boutique JL CoquetWe dropped in on the very last day of the trip. No, there was no party here, but a tour was arranged especially for us - around one of the smallest and most expensive shops in Paris. It is located in the very heart of the city, on the famous Rue Royale, 7. By the way, the tour lasted for a whole hour, and it was incredibly interesting to learn more and more new facts about porcelain and the features of using services, and we would have stayed for another two or even three hours, but the plane did not wait. However, there was enough material for several articles. The main thing that really surprised us was that it turns out that any product made from porcelain mass mixed in Limoges has the right to be called Limoges porcelain, that is, even in other European countries such porcelain can be made. And often many manufacturers even buy finished products from Limoges, and then only hand-paint them. But not all that glitters is gold. True Limoges quality is born where the entire process is in the same hands: from kneading the mass to baking the porcelain and its decoration. As we have personally seen: JL Coquet porcelain is so thin that it is translucent (although it is not bone). You can draw your own conclusions about the design: this brand has a truly avant-garde, although truly aristocratic one. Recently, in order to help the consumer distinguish “Limoges porcelain” from the real thing, completely made in Limoges, local Limoges factories have agreed to put a green stamp on their products - “Made in Limoges”.
In Spanish, a fiery partyPorcelanosa Grupo It was impossible to pass by this party: the guests occupied not only the avant-garde showroom of the largest Spanish holding (produces tiles, porcelain tiles, plumbing, faucets and kitchens), but also the entire corner of the street on which this house is located. Dealers and designers, as they say, buzzed for four hours straight, the fun was so great that it seemed like a fashionable disco was taking place here. The music was thundering, people were dancing, chatting, raising glasses to the health of the holding and simply having a blast. The conceptual showroom of the Porcelanosa holding in Paris is located at 45 Rue du Bac, in Moscow - 38 Marshal Zhukov Avenue, bldg. 1.
