Over time, Maison N°20 has been able to impose a theatrical and eclectic style, which mixes contemporary exuberance and elegance of classical proportions, always favoring exceptional materials that accentuate this singular atmosphere.
Interior designer, Charles Tassin divides his time between prestigious construction sites and the Galerie May, rue de Lille, where he presents his creations. Perfectly in his time, he knows how to mix all the others, take to each one certain elements that will make him create unique universes.
With the Galerie May and Maylis Queyrat, he publishes furniture designed in the pure tradition of art craftsmanship: marquetry, lacquer or ceramics, with a resolutely contemporary approach. Deeply attached to craftsmanship, he has a very assertive sense of refinement, elegance, but also exuberance, which make all the charm of the French Style.
First Parisian address for the favorite interior designer of chic restaurants. She wanted it as a small art gallery or even a living space where she can display her own collections by mixing them with those of other designers or with unique pieces that she has found, to recreate these joyful and colorful universe of which she has the secret.
Raphaël Le Berre and Thomas Vevaud met 25 years ago on the benches of the Camondo school. They created their architecture agency 10 years ago and, from project to project, have developed their own line of furniture. This collection of armchairs and benches, chests of drawers, consoles, pedestal tables, mirrors, screens or rugs is now exhibited in a gallery dedicated to it. A universe where the shapes are undulating, greedy, the color essential and the materials treated above all for their intrinsic beauty.
Chahan Minassian is multitalented : he is an interior designer, a designer, an antique dealer and a gallery owner. He has a passion for the American furniture of the 1930s to the 1960s, he presents, in his gallery of the Rue de Lille, pieces by Vladimir Kagan, Paul Evans, Karl Springer, Tommi Parzinger, Paul Laszlo, Philip and Kelvin Laverne, Edward Wormley, Harry Bertoia… and just next to it, he becomes again an interior designer and presents his style for international customers.
Sylvie Tiago is passionate about the decorative arts, with a predilection for Asia and especially Japan, of which she shows contemporary pieces as well as screens from the 17th century. But she also likes to mix styles with Louis XVI seats or the marvelous furniture created by the artist Louis Cane. Pieces that come together wonderfully according to Sylvie’s love at first sight.
True Germanopratin at heart, Charles Zana studied architecture at the Beaux Arts in Paris. The artistic history of the district, its galleries, its publishing houses and even its cafes then made him want to open his agency and his showroom there.
A great defender of a French way of life, Charles Zana is also passionate about the great masters of 20th century Italian design such as Ettore Sottsass or Carlo Scarpa. Each project is a new opportunity for him and his team to showcase French craftsmanship and in his gallery you can discover his furniture collections inspired by his many passions.
