![]() But it wasn’t until I revisited the Florence Loewy bookstore in the Marais, home to a Jakob + MacFarlanedesigned “hive” of plywood bookshelves, that it hit me: therein lay the spirit for our new Parisian boutique on the rue des Francs Bourgeois.Īs someone who loves working with perfumers, like an editor at a publishing house, I immediately sensed – with the help of these great architects – that together we’d invent a new way to display our collections. A futuristic fantasy, it remains to this day as perfect and unexpected as it was fifteen years ago. I’d always loved Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane’s work on the restaurant Georges at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The goal is one of perfect artistic union, in which our two worlds collide and intertwine… The new boutique, rue des Francs Bourgeois by Frédéric Malle.Įvery new boutique represents a meeting of the minds, a collaboration between myself and a carefully chosen architect whose work I greatly admire. Finally embedded shelf lighting underlights each individual bottle. ![]() The ceiling spot lights are treated as direct light and introduced by creating the same kind of cuts but open and revealed. This light source is concealed through backlit translucide panels. The way in which light was bought into the project was by creating a series of cuts in the walls behind the shelves as well as the ceiling suspended light. A careful collaboration was made with the lighting designers l’Observatoire. Light is a vital component of this project. One perfume bottle becomes a multitude of points within the city of light to be revealed and explored. The inner sides: walls and ceiling of this space are designed to be mirrored stainless steel surfaces creating an effect of an endless complexity of virtual spaces reflecting the actual space of the spectator. The inside space of this box is designed as a three-dimensional wooden grid that is carefully carved away to create a series of mysterious island and stalactite like elements that at once are shelves, tables and other equipment such as refrigerator or scenting columns. This box is designed so its façade facing a busy shopping street is created as one total window. The project is imagined first as a shoebox volume slid into the ground floor of an existing ancient building in the Marais district of Paris.
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