Three Perspectives on India Mahdavi

India Mahdavi has three addresses within a stone's throw of each other, in the 7th arrondissement. During Paris Design Week, and as part of the decorators’ AD tour, its exhibition axes will also be triple. In the Project Room » « on Rue de Bellechasse, she will launch her first monograph, edited by Chronicle Books. Architecture, interior architecture, furniture, and objects, she explains the genesis of her projects of the last twenty years and documents the inspirations of her unique, cosmopolitan, and joyful style. She slipped in drawings, models, and personal photos.

3 rue Las Cases, the showroom hosts a new collection of very particular furniture, as it is directly inspired by this year's successive confines. During the pandemic, the architect adapted to the new uses introduced by the « Home Office », whose practice is bound to continue. To reinvent the home space, she created Hexagone, a comfortable armchair that can be used as a desk seat or as a seat under the dining table. In corduroy, on a lacquered rotating base, it is accompanied by an ottoman, either stool or footrest. In the same spirit of hybrid use, Bruno is a revolving library whose trays are deep enough to place a printer that you hide in the evening in a quarter turn. As always, his creations are made in collaboration with the best craftsmen, giving them another dimension, that of the poetry of handwork. We remember his collaboration with the Longwy enamels in 2020, or even his tables in straw marquetry with Lison de Caunes.

Finally, in its space Little India, dedicated to accessories, you can see a model of the restaurant the Gallery at Sketch in London in dollhouse format. This work is part of an exhibition project carried out in collaboration with students from the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) for the Salon del Mobile in Milan. The purpose is to resurrect in real or small size mythical spaces that have disappeared or are destined to disappear. One day, the decor of the Sketch will also be reviewed... But, as Coco Chanel said, if fashion passes, the style still remains.