All-Over Painting
In the summer 2018, Culture in Architecture’s founder Aline Asmar D’Amman, while designing the new « Jules Vernes » , shared several keywords with me that led to the creation of grand scale sky paintings at the famous Eiffel Tower restaurant. – Etchings / like in a cloud/ Basquiat’s Eiffel Tower painting/ thunderous. The skies […]
One of my new patinas on display at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris as part of Karl Lagerfeld’s new exhibition : « Architectures ».The creator chose one of my most recent work to decorate the shades of his table lamps in his first exhibition of functional sculptures. The architect Aline Asmar d’Amman carried out the studies and development […]
Decorative painting for the ultra-contemporary style. Avant-garde contemporary design was chosen by the owner to decorate this space. I was asked to create subtile patinas on the doors, plinths, and windows of this 21st Century artist’s studio. The owner thought it absolutely necessary to include decorative painting in the creative process. For the ceiling I […]
The spirit of Süe and Mare and the Compagnie des Arts Français 1919 – 1927 Whenever my team and I create new painted material for decorators and their clients, we always have in mind the story of the exceptional rebirth of French decorative arts embodied by the Compagnie des Arts Français. At the beginning of […]
Les prémices du décor de la chambre rose ou la rencontre entre l’art des Lumières et l’art contemporain.
The story behind the decorative paintings of the Grands Appartements at the Hôtel de Crillon, based on the indications given by Karl Lagerfeld. Episode 1 When artistic director, Aline d’Amann, in charge of redecorating the hotel, first approached Karl Lagerfeld about the Grands Appartements, I had already been working for the great designer for over […]
How a myth became an inspiration for one of the most exquisite rooms of the Hôtel de Crillon, a Rosewood Hotel in Paris. Karl Lagerfeld , While visiting the future suites that would carry his unmistakable touch, recounted the story of a drunk Bacchus in lusty pursuit of a nymph, who, startled, ran away and […]
Christophe Martin 