In this shop, what we have is more gastronomic pastry than simple pastry. Pierre Hermé is an avant-garde pastry confectioner and a magician with flavors. He revolutionizes the most established traditions and eliminates the excessive or useless decors which clutter cake shops. He uses salt as sugar to bring out other shades of flavors and he constantly reassesses his own work by exploring new territories or by revisiting his own recipes.
Yves Gastou is a specialist for furniture and sculpture of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. He hunts for, rediscovers all the forgotten designers of those years. He was the one who since 1985 has organized the first exhibitions in France of Ron Arad, Ettore Sottsass or Shiro Kuramata, that he then confronted with the works by older major designers of the 1940s and 1950s as André Arbus, Jacques Adnet, Paul Evans, Gabriella Crespi, Joe Colombo and many others. It is thanks to gallery owners like him that we now enjoy the return of Art Deco in the forefront. Joined by his son Victor in 2005, Yves Gastou continues to exhibit the spatial and playful furniture of the 60s and 70s, cherishing the dream of a free and relaxed way of life, of an art democratized thanks to the introduction of new materials, such as resin, brass, stainless steel, and stone geodes, while integrating a sleek contemporary design. Victor has continued the adventure alone since Yves’ disappearance in 2020.
In a 19th century decor, chocolates and boxes are elegantly arranged on an antique piece of furniture with antique panellings. In the window shop there are exceptional pastries exposed where even, including the most classical ones such as the lemon tart or the frosted cream puff have a reinterpreted taste, and of course the famous macaroons, a series of colours and tastes, which makes it a Mecca for the pastry-making creation.
Marcel Fleiss opened the Galerie des Quatre Mouvements in 1972 with an exhibition of forty rayographs by his friend Man Ray. He presented Dada, Surrealist, Pop, and Hyperrealist works there. In 1981, he opened the Galerie 1900-2000, where he broadened his artistic scope to include other avant-garde movements (Lettrism, Fluxus, etc.) and a few contemporary artists (Pol Bury, George Condo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring’s last exhibition before his death). In 1991, his son David joined him and developed the photography department and collaborations with contemporary artists (Joseph Kosuth and Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sylvie Fleury, and Laurent Grasso). Together, they now focus primarily on Surrealist and Dadaist works (Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Hans Bellmer, Arthur Cravan, etc.) while continuing to champion the art of the 1960s and 70s.
Artists permanently presented : Hans Bellmer, Gaston Bertin, Jean-Louis Brau, Victor Brauner, Pol Bury, William Copley Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Aube Elléouët, Max Ernst, Xavier Escriba, Al Hansen, Jacques Hérold, Ray Johnson, Philippe Jusforgues, Tetsumi Kudo, Wifredo Lam, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Maurice Lemaitre,
Frédéric Léglise, Dora Maar, Man Ray, André Masson, Pierre Molinier, Francis Picabia, Edda Renouf, Miguel Rio Branco, Ed Ruscha, Robert Whitman
Jean-Jacques Dutko is a multi-faceted antique dealer-gallerist, passionate about many universes. Around the furniture of Jacques-Emile Ruhlman or Eugène Printz, he stages contemporary designers but also primitive art, painting and sculpture, universes that intersect in complete harmony.
Established in 2010 by Béatrice Saint-Laurent, Galerie BSL represents established and emerging international artists/designers including: Djim Berger, Nacho Carbonell, Taher Chemirik, Studio Cogitech, Charlotte Cornaton, Carol Egan, Adrien De Melo, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, Charles Kalpakian, Ayala Serfaty, and Faye Toogood. The commissioned works, whether unique or very limited editions, hand crafted or born from technological innovation, are living testimonies of the current radical changes in contemporary creation. Each piece is marked by a constant dialogue between art, design, and architecture.
For more than eighty years, Nobilis has been editing collections of fabrics and wallpapers created by the greatest designers : Christian Liaigre, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Eric Valeiro, Robert Le Héros and many others … Denis Halard, its current director, is really close and very sensitive to contemporary art and has artists work on many projects.
Félix founded the gallery in 1969 and was joined by Félix Junior three years ago. The space gathers together a panel of artists and of major works for the art deco : furniture by André Arbus, Eugène Printz, Jules Leleu, Jacques Adnet and Marcel Coard, the sculptures of Joseph Csaky, Jean-Lambert Rucki, or Gustave Miklos, enamel pieces by Jean Dunand, but also the Orientalist paintings of Jacques Majorelle and the animal drawings of Paul Jouve.
.Countless ranges of colors, styles and materials for this Italian publisher whose factory is located near Como, in the north of Italy. Furnishing fabrics or wall coverings, artisans and textile specialists come together to create products of unique quality. Dedar is also Hermès’ partner for the production and distribution of their furnishing fabrics and wallpapers.
Every product is made with a mix of high-quality and concentrated ingredients : essences of plants very much sought-after (tea tree, bitter orange, tangerine, coriander, geranium) with delicate and refined perfumes. There are no animal ingredients and the synthetic preservatives are reduced to the minimum and are replaced by vegetable products. We also like the way products are presented : in simple and opaque bottles, in order to preserve them from ultraviolet rays and to preserve their integrity.
Publishers specialized in art, fashion and decoration, Martine and Prosper Assouline decided in 2005 to open a bookshop that combines Culture and Luxury, books and objects. We can find there exclusive accessories, curios, personalized gifts … they have opened a new bookshop with the same concept in NYC, at the Plaza Hotel.
