L’Appuntamento
Paris Design Week
On a Belle Époque rattan music stand sits the score of Ornella Vanoni’s cult song ‘L’Appuntamento’, one of Sandra Benhamou’s favorites. In her expressive voice, the star of Italian pop evokes the vagaries of love, its joys and torments. The dreamy mood tinged with drama of this 1970s ballad has inspired the designer in the creation of a dreamscape.
Galerie Vauclair and its conservatories were an obvious choice to show her collection L’Appuntamento in its best light. The mise-en-scène is arranged like a Milanese apartment, the installation echoes the bohemian chic of interiors by Gabriella Crespi, as much as the winter gardens so dear to Renzo Mongiardino.
Lined in ice-blue raw silk, the first room invites to enjoy a drink while playing chess. There Sandra Benhamou presents a new chess table with an iroko base and a travertine checkerboard. On either side, she has placed a Dolly armchair upholstered in floral blue fabric, along with her Leon bar in lacquer, steel, brass, and smoked glass. The small adjacent salon, with its black walls, is home to her new Gae sofa with its sinuous lines, alongside the Gaby coffee table in glossy teak. Over the table hangs a spectacular tubular chandelier in vintage Murano glass, a collaboration with Veronese.
Credits: Valerio Geraci
