Esquisses Collection Taps Into Less Colorful Side of Matisse’s Art

Henri Matisse is understood for the masterful use of colour in his artwork, however there’s one other world in his work centered on strains and shapes. For Milan Design Week 2023, Matisse home invited British designer Faye Toogood to interpret Chinese language black ink on white paper from the e-book Drawings: Themes and Variations” by Matisse. All through the pages, the artist repeatedly works on themes till the drawings obtain a form of pure equilibrium, fully devoid of colour. The end result sketches assortment contains lounge and bed room furnishings that pay homage to Matisse’s originality and the liberation expressed in these line drawings.

Toogood was the best particular person to associate with, as Matisse has lengthy been an inspiration for the designer’s work. Her 2017 assortment “Assemblage 5” was devoted to Matisse’s “Chapelle du Rosaire” in Venice. The partnership with Maison Matisse, based by the artist’s descendants, allowed Toogood to additional discover his affect and create her personal form-based vocabulary.

“From drawing as a place to begin, I labored to create a library of gestures, strains and shapes that reply to motifs in Matisse’s sketches. I saved coming again to a collection of desk nonetheless lifes that Matisse made within the Forties. Fruits, veggies, family objects, all rendered in his eloquent, important line,” Toogood shared. “We ended up with over 100 sketches and, initially simply to catalog them, we selected the very best 24 and glued them collectively in a harmonica e-book. That format instantly instructed rugs and a blanket… so these had been the primary items we developed.”

The Esquisses assortment incorporates the primary objects from Maison Matisse in a putting palette of black, white and beige. The pure wool rugs are made with solely the colours present in sheep, with the emphasis on the road and form. Additionally in step with Maison Matisse’s easy core values, each piece inside the assortment is produced in Italy by gifted craftsmen.

For extra data on the Esquisses assortment, go to maison-matisse.com.