Patrick Jouin
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, PARIS
Deborah Wilk -- Interior Design, 12/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
“Jewelry should be about pleasure,” Patrick Jouin says. To update a venerable boutique once patronized by the Duchess of Windsor and Princess Grace of Monaco, he opened up the warren of rooms that had filled the 2,500-square-foot space, which occupies part of an 18th-century mansion on the Place Vendôme. Next, he created just three salons on two levels. They're connected by a staircase hidden behind the curved walls of a double-height rotunda, with its cascading chandelier of handblown Murano glass balls. Decorative elements represent the arcadian fantasy of the Van Cleef aesthetic. Branches, blossoms, and butterflies are hand-carved into oak boiserie. Vitrines showcase mannequins with fairy wings.
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PROJECT Eko, Toronto.
STANDOUT The painted MDF ribs wrapping this jewelry boutique protrude increasingly toward the rear of the narrow space, making it appear deeper.
EOA/Elmslie Osler Architect
PROJECT Amaridian, New York.
STANDOUT At this gallery of African art and objects, a partition that looks like solid concrete is actually clad in a composite made from recycled newspaper.
Yabu Pushelberg
PROJECT David Yurman, Los Angeles.
STANDOUT Walls and a ceiling paneled in zebrawood lead rearward to this jewelry boutique's backlit glass wall sculpture by Catherine Hibbits.
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