Darré vincent

renaissance
effervescent mise-en-scène
13 rue royale by appointment

photography by GIASCO BERTOLI
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
translation by PEDRO RODRÌGUEZ

VINCENT DARRÉ IN FRONT OF ‘À LA FRANÇAISE’ SOFA RENAISSANCE COLLECTION, TABLE BY TAHER CHEMIRIK

OLIVIER ZAHM — You’ve reinvented the Maison Darré.

VINCENT DARRÉ — Indeed, it’s now no longer called the Maison Darré, but the Maison Vincent Darré. It’s closer to being my Maison than the Maison Darré, which was a furniture laboratory. It’s a return to a certain vision of the decorative arts. Since the restaurant Maxim’s was next door, the Rue Royale was symbolic of a whole French art of living. That’s what I hoped to reflect. I think the times are such that we should no longer be seeing objects of design in all-white galleries; we should be seeing them in places where people live.

OLIVIER ZAHM — And in…