At home with a connoisseur

The product of this sanguine brainstorming,At Home with a Connoisseur, features marked aesthetic expressions in a space redesigned by Rinck in collaboration with Julia Van Hagen. The latest addition to the Félicité collection unveiled last January, a monumental bronze ceiling light by Rinck, is suspended above the table from the same collection. This new design, some six feet across, boasts carved branches that reach across the space to gently illuminate the premises. Rinck also presents a period 1940s sideboard, typical of a late Art Deco style that brought the house such success in the post-war period. Above the sideboard are two wall lights from the Félicité collection that subtly mold the light, uniting these two Rinck designs separated by seven decades of history.

The space was painted by the skilled artisans of Argile and features two of the Paris specialists’ custom shades, Atelier Red and Scala, generating a strong chromatic dialogue to match the character of the designs. The exclusive wallpaper is from celebrated English company Fromental, which presents “The Classicist Sketchbook” based a design by Rinck, inspired by full-scale sketches from our company’s sculptors for period-furniture projects. This is the first physical collaboration between Rinck and Fromental, who were eager to work together after having taken part in a number of collaborative events and pop-ups in recent years over the course of various design weeks in the world’s décor capitals.

For the gallery’s floors, the Rinck team chose to call upon the talents of Lady Deirdre Dyson, a grande dame of English design, who showcases two rugs at the event. This echoes the recent opening of her Paris showroom, a stone’s throw away on Rue des Saints Pères, which treats a discerning Parisian public to contemporary creations traditionally handcrafted from the finest materials in Nepal.