Letter From Paris: 14e Pavillion Des Arts et Du Design

Last week, stylist James Leland Day zipped an email over asking if I'd like to present myself at the 14th Pavillion Des Arts et Du Design.  Most pleasantly, he had a ticket for us to get in, which, naturally, is our preferred situation.  I checked it out here online and typed as fast as my fingers could go that I'd be delighted to be his date, which we soon made a triple with our friend artist Theo Edmonds. 

I met up with my boys at the Pavillion, which we entered at the Tuilleries from the rue de Rivoli, stepping into a world inhabited by art and design professionals that were to varying degrees genuinely accessible to snooty.  Which variety do you think fared the best? 

Pretension is the road to nowhere on all my maps.

These are some of the most striking images from the show that was held from March 24 - 28, 2010.

Most handsome piece of furniture, sleek and natural not to mention handy.  I loved this chair, and if I had a fab house along the northern California coast--maybe Sea Ranch--I'd have it positioned with a fantastic sea view.

Chair by Jack Rogers Hopkins, 1973.  $33,000.00.  (Photo by Beth Arnold)

Todd Merrill & Associates, Inc.

65 Bleecker Street at Crosby Street

New York, NY 10012

Phone: +1 212 673-0531

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www.merillantiques.com

Chair by Jack Rogers Hopkins, 1973.  Another view.  (Photo by Beth Arnold)

These are pieces I'd like to put in my country house (which I don't yet have) in the rocky hills of the Corbieres or Luberon--or in my enormous cottage (no, not that one either) overlooking the lapping blue sea with white foam bubbling lazily on the sand.

Sofa by Jean Prouve.  (Photo by Beth Arnold)

Galerie Downtown by Francois Laffanour
18 rue de Seine
75006  Paris
01.46.33.82.41

www.galeriedowntown.com

Also by Jean Prouve at Galerie Downtown.  (Photo by Beth Arnold)

Or these clean pieces could go in my industrial loft, which exists somewhere in my imaginative colony of houses.

And now for art.  We all have someone in mind for this...And maybe even more than one person?  The whole lot we'd like to mow down in our worst angry moments.

The message says it all:

"Son of A Bitch" by Eric Pougeau.  5,600 €.  (Photo by Beth Arnold)

Who wouldn't want to own this? 

carpenters workshop gallery

Mayfair /

3 Albemarle Street

London W1S 4HE

t +44 (0)20 3051 5939

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This space was beautifully designed to display its tempting pieces by gallery and shop Modernity:

Red chairs designed by Verner Panton for Thonet, Germany. 1966.  (Photo by Beth Arnold)

Designed by Poul Kjaerholm for Kold Christensen, Denmark. 1960's.  (Photo by Beth Arnold)

Modernity


Andrew Duncanson


Isaac Pineus


Maria Wermelin



Sibyllegatan 6


114 42 Stockholm 
Sweden



Phone:  +46-8-20 80 25

Mobile:  
+46-708-39 34 31


[email protected]

www.modernity.se  

Another highlight of the show were these mirrors.  The glass is plain until you step into view, and the enlightening words light up. 

Mirror by Alnoor.  2,500 €.  (Photo by Beth Arnold)

Is this heaven?  I need one!

Mirror by Alnoor.  6,000 €.  (Photo by Beth Arnold)

Galerie de Casson

21, rue de Seine

75006  Paris

Phone:  +33 (0) 1 45 86 94 76

[email protected]

www.galeriedecasson.com

Are you a design freak?  What can you not live without?

                                                              ---Beth Arnold in Paris