September will see the release of the second monograph published by Rizzoli dedicated to the work of Paris-based interior designer Jean-Louis Deniot. Destinations presents 18 of his projects, from Bangkok to Cali in Colombia. There is what looks like a mini-Versailles in New Delhi, whose owners refer to as their ‘farmhouse’, though there is nothing remotely rural about it, as well as his own house in LA’s Hollywood Hills. There’s also the dacha (seasonal residence) on Yves Saint Laurent’s former country house in Normandy, the Château Gabriel, which he has redecorated for its new owners.
In many of the places Jean-Louis works, he tried to create a new paradigm of just how an interior should look there. For a loft project in Miami, he referenced the city’s status as one of the world’s art capitals and took inspiration from the reconstitution of sculptor Constantin Brâncusi’s atelier near the Pompidou Centre in Paris. But for this holiday home on the Île de Ré, off France’s west coast, he also decided to come up with a fresh new aesthetic. “The houses there tend to be pretty old-fashioned with lots of driftwood,” he says. “They look rather sad.”
This story is from the August - September 2022 edition of Belle Magazine Australia.
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