Gallery proprietor Amelie du Chalard has opened the doorways to her unimaginable Parisian residence crammed with artwork and design collections, a lot of it from Fritz Hansen. After discovering the Danish model, du Chalard fell in love with Poul Kjærholm’s designs and over time has collected a few of his items that now stay in her gallery-like residence. The house was as soon as a personal library earlier than turning into an artist’s studio, earlier than du Chalard referred to as it residence.
Du Chalard says, “My house is a mirrored image of myself and the way in which I wish to stay,” she continues, “so it is crammed with artwork and furnishings which might be significant to me. Since I used to be 15, the one items I’ve given to my birthday art work. Work, sculptures, pictures, textiles; I come into contact with many mediums. I really feel the identical means about furnishings. All of the furnishings I’ve tells a narrative and I’m very centered on all kinds of textures from wooden to cotton to wool to steel.
Poul Kjærholm’s work is not the one work by Fritz Hansen to reside in her house — a number of Arne Jacobsen Grand Prix chairs are organized across the prolonged kitchen island that doubles as a eating desk.
The bottom ground covers practically 1,100 sq. toes with hovering ceilings, making it the right house for Du Chalard’s spectacular artwork assortment. “I preserve my partitions white so I can use them as a backdrop for art work of various sizes and mediums,” she says.
One in every of Poul Kjærholm’s PK24 chaise longue chairs makes an announcement within the open lounge.
The sculptural PK0 A armchair (above) and PK25 chair (under), each by Kjærholm, spherical off the sitting space in the lounge. “Additionally it is necessary to notice that whereas these items are sculptural, they’re additionally very snug. That is one thing my husband all the time jogs my memory is necessary! And it is true. I feel Scandinavian design typically has each components: aesthetics and luxury,” she explains.
Amélie du Chalard at her residence in Paris
Images by Gaelle Le Boulicaut, courtesy of Fritz Hansen.
