Ria is Filipina and Yiouri is Cypriot, one studied design and the other architecture. They met in London in the 1980s where they both worked for the designer John Stefanidis. Few years later they decided to achieve (to fulfil) their dream by creating their first collection of furniture and by showing it in Paris. Success was instantaneous : the Crillon placed an order for the apartments of this luxury hotel, Neiman Marcus and Barney’s show them in New York City. They settled in the Rue du Bac and since then never stopped creating furniture very inspired by Art Deco for which they have no limits concerning the choice of materials that they use, like at that time : rare woods, crocodile, python, cobra or ostrich skin, but also horn or mothers-of-pearls.
When she created Caravane in 1995, Françoise Dorget traveled the world to bring back unique decorative objects that are often still unknown in France. Today the very notion of the unique is complicated but the Caravan style is still there with fabrics, accessories, furniture and lighting inspired by artisanal know-how. For the armchairs, sofas and chaise lounges which have also made the brand’s reputation, manufacturing remains exclusively French. Timeless pieces with an ethnic-chic style that blend with any decor.
In Paris, New York and Shanghai, the Dumonteil Gallery presents a selection of design pieces, sculptures, paintings and photographs around the theme of Animals and Nature.
The 88 Phillipe Rapin Gallery features a selection of furniture and artwork of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and historical curiosities. An unusual space opposite to the Louvre which features major artists , Robert Goossens , the famous craftsman of Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, Roberto Rida , Marc Bankowsky … The icons of Italian decorative arts : Gio Ponti , Osvaldo Borsani , Franco Albini , Guglielmo Ulrich … And the English painter and sculptor of Op Art, Marc Cavell ( 1911-1989 ). An eclectic and prolific gallery where styles and periods collide.
