Iconic project

Art Deco inspiration for Pierre Yovanovitch

A modern vision for Pierre Yovanovitch

The interior designer Pierre Yovanovitch has given a new look to the interior of a private house in London and, in the same spirit, an apartment in Paris. Adept at achieving luxury without ostentation, he turned to Féau Boiseries to design oases of contemporaneity. Fine examples of the interplay between contemporary design and custom-made boiseries, in London’s upmarket Chelsea neighborhood and Paris’s 7^th arrondissement.

Custom-made Régence style study, natural oak, Yovanovitch project for distinguished Parisian interior

Louis XV boiserie scheme installed and restored by Féau Boiseries

Detail of a Louis XV library installed and restored by Féau Boiseries

Double door of a Louis XVI boiserie scheme installed and restored by Féau Boiseries

Detail of a dining room Louis XVI boiserie scheme enhances by Takashi Murakami artwork

A high-end refurbishment made to measure
This salon is a completely new type of decor : the paneling is in pale-patinated oak, understated and refined, with the horizontally ranged veins of the wood beautifully visible, giving an effect of landscape and highlighting the sinuous verticality of the cornice.

Guillaume Féau

Féau Boiseries door frame inspired by one of Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann's art deco motifs

Art Deco inspired patinated oak boiserie scheme

Patinated oak boiserie scheme with undulating ornamentation and carved scarabs on the cornice

Detail of an Art Deco inspired cornice, with sculpted scarabs, created for interior decorator Pierre Yovanovitch

Féau Boiseries doorway inspired by one of Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann's art deco motifs

Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann’s masterpiece revisited

The custom-made boiseries were produced in oak, copying the original Art Deco ornamentation : Ruhlmann’s elegant motif of three rows of dentils in the doorframes [pict. 1], the vertical wave motif of the cornices, carved with a gouge [pict. 2 & 3], however, the female masks that punctuated the period decor have been replaced by soberly carved scarabs [pict. 4].

The choice of Art Deco

Oak door by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Féau private collection

20^th CENTURY STYLE – ART DECO

Lord Rothermere’s Ruhlmann boiseries

Pierre Yovanovitch found inspiration in a decor from the Féau firm’s archives for the salon walls : an Art Deco masterpiece designed by Ruhlmann in 1925 for Lord Rothermere’s apartment on the Champs-Élysées.

More about this work here

Architect / dsigner Pierre Yovanovitch https://www.instagram.com/pierre.yovanovitch/	Style 20^th Century, Art Deco	Location Londres, Paris	Pieces from the collection Art Deco paneling designed by Ruhlmann for Lord Rothermere
Type of project Residential	Rooms decorated 2	Savoir-faire design, joinery/paneling, sculpture/ornamentation, plaster/resin, finishes, logistics, installation	Elements of the decor Boiseries, ceilings and cornices, doors and doorframes, bookcases

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