A cosmopolitan icon for over 130 years, the Orient Express is an emblem of timeless luxury. This legendary blend of exotic opulence and extreme refinement will soon be unveiled.

The rebirth of the Orient Express is a technological challenge, meeting scientific and technical criteria, and an artistic and aesthetic challenge where the entire project has been conceived as a total work of art.

For this mythical train, which was once decorated by René Prou, René Lalique, Christofle… and which will travel all over the world, Maxime d’Angeac has combined the most beautiful materials, elm burr, mahogany, velvet, silk, bevelled mirror, crystal…

We are fortunate to have been selected and to participate in this luxurious project in close collaboration with other companies of the living heritage, craftsmen of arts.

We will be participating in the various upholstery works in the bar and restaurant carriages as well as the suite carriages.

The Four Seasons Hotel Firenze – a historic 5-star hotel – located just a stone’s throw from the city’s cultural district, combines old-world luxury with modern comfort,

Set in the largest private park in Florence, dotted with statues, fountains and century-old trees, this ancient Renaissance palace has kept its floors, walls and ceilings covered with frescoes and original architectural details.

We are currently making all the decorations, curtains, sub-curtains – all motorised – , wall hangings, & bedding for this Palace, including a historic Suite.

Each collection is presented in a setting that tells the story of nature, light and femininity specific to the brand. Immaculate cut paper and satin embroidered with gold are used to evoke in a subtle and poetic way the movement of water and the reflection of the singular light of the Kimberley region where, in the Timor Sea, the most beautiful pearls of the world grow. The relief of the coast is evoked through the weaving of a metal mesh which creates a landscape as the background of the collections. The presentation of the collections in the windows has also been redesigned in order to adapt to the new architectural concept and to give the creations the lightness and elegance that distinguish them: we find in the displays the brass of the furniture, the textiles that dress the shop, the curve of the pearls… Flexible and modular, this system of busts and props adapts to all collections and unfolds for the visitor’s viewing pleasure.

 

Retail design : Carbondale

Visual Merchandising : Manymany

Photographie : Tyrone Branigan

The Chopard group recently acquired the Hôtel de Vendôme, one of the most renowned addresses in the capital. This building, built in 1723 by Pierre PERRIN, is located on Place Vendôme in the centre of the Parisian high jewellery district.

The choice of the acquisition of this Parisian address by Chopard is not insignificant, one of the most famous boutiques of the jeweller having opened on the ground floor of the hotel 10 years earlier (recently renovated by us).

We are currently carrying out

all draperies, curtains, sub-curtains – all motorised – in the rooms and suites, the decorations in all the common areas: bars, lounges & restaurants,
the wall hangings on all the walls of the Suites,
all bedding including headboards and bed frames in a timeless style integrating home automation (speakers, reading lights, controls) in these creations, four-poster beds & bed canopy

After Milan, London, Paris, Dubai, Beijing, Shanghai, Bali and recently Tokyo, the upcoming opening of a Bulgari Hotels & Resorts property in the Italian capital is a return to its roots.

Scheduled to open in June 2023, the Bulgari Hotel Roma is an exceptional tribute to the place that serves as Bulgari’s headquarters and main source of inspiration.

Located at number 10 Piazza Augusto Imperatore in the Campo Marzio district, Bulgari Hotel Roma will be housed in a historic building designed by architect Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo and built in the late 1930s.

We have been working closely with the architects of the site, and are currently creating all the decorations, curtains, sub-curtains – all motorised – for the presidential rooms and suites, the decorations for all the common areas: bars, lounges & restaurants, on two levels, the administrative areas. All the fabrics were made especially for this project.

We were also asked to make all the external blinds for the huge columned gallery.

Located on the Avenue George V, in the heart of the Golden Triangle, the luxury and fashion district, nestled between the Seine and the Champs-Elysées, the Bulgari Hotel Paris is a new hotel experience where the codes of Italian hospitality, Bulgari’s jewelry heritage and the prestigious history of the City of Light merge.

We created all the decorations, curtains and sub-curtains – some of which are motorized – for the large bays, rooms and suites, including the Bulgari Penthouse, an exceptional private apartment of nearly 400 m2 with its 6-meter high curtains, as well as those of the Il Ristorante – Niko Romito.

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Located at the heart of the Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle was built in 1681 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Louis XIV’s favorite architect and a reference of French classicism. This spectacular building once hosted members of Europe’s political and cultural elite, from ambassadors to artists, musicians, writers and scientists of the Enlightenment.

More than two centuries later, after a complete restoration, Le Grand Contrôle is reborn to reveal to its guests the exclusive world of the Château de Versailles.

We were honored to participate in this prestigious renovation.
The historic lounges and the 14 rooms and suites restored in accordance with the original spirit were decorated with tapestries.

The walls of the Historic Lounges were adorned with decorative panels framed by brass moldings. Patterned borders on the perimeter emphasize the wainscoting. The central parts in plain fabric highlight the sconces and paintings.

The walls of the rooms and suites have been traditionally treated with tapestries, delimited by lacquer patina picture rails. The fabrics have all been custom woven according to the historical data from the Pierre Frey Studio.

The challenge required by Christophe Tollemer’s and the client’s teams was not only to match with high precision the tapestries drawings with the curtains, doors under the tapestries, and attic walls, but also to respect the various technical details required by the complexity of the rooms.

Only the meticulous care and expert manual dexterity of our companions could bring this high-precision work to a successful conclusion.

Interior Architect: Christophe Tollemer
Photo credits: Renee Kemps

Originally built by French architect François Durel in 1901 in a post-Haussmann style, the hotel has been carefully redesigned by the architectural firm Pierre-Yves Rochon.

We had the honor to work on the entire Palace : the Lobby, the Bar, the gastronomic restaurants L’Atelier of Joël Robuchon and Le Jardinier of Alain Verzeroli, as well as the Spa Guerlain & the Suites.

This project thus allowed us to implement all areas of our craft of excellence.

In the public areas, particular care has been given to the wool satin window decors, on which have been applied elegant embroidered borders in the lower part.

Installed on motorised rods, these decors were embellished by custom-made hanging tiebacks from Passementerie de l’Ile de France.

The two large porches of the gastronomic restaurant Le Jardinier are adorned with motorised decors including decorative curtains, wooden Venetian blinds, day and night roman blinds, allowing to modulate the intimacy of the place according to the hours of the day.

The window decors of the restaurant L’atelier of Joël Robuchon are decorated with curtains, wooden Venetian blinds, & reel blinds that dim the light, all motorised.

A particular work was completed on the curtains made of wool sheet of different colors, connected by a lamb’s wool cording.

The suites are decorated with curtains, under-curtains and sheers operated on motorised rods, embellished by custom-made suspended tiebacks.

The corridors are stretched with wild silk; the walls on the headboard side are decorated with a geometric diamond-shaped fabric.

The leather-covered headboards and bed frames custom-made in the Ateliers Philippe Coudray complement this decor by discreetly incorporating reading lights and switches.

A very particular work was performed on certain headboards by integrating lacquered wood bedsides and brass inlays.

Precious fabrics were selected for the making of plaids, facings and cushions made to measure to match the overall decoration.

Architect: Pierre-Yves Rochon – Cabinet Pierre-Yves Rochon

 

 

For this majestic contemporary villa in San Francisco, the Ateliers Philippe Coudray made the window decors, tapestries, wall cladding, Japanese walls and all the decorative cushions.

To decorate the monumental bays of this villa, noble materials were chosen such as wool satin, linen, linen veil, woolen cloth, abaca…

A work of application of leather border over-stitched with saddle stitches was completed on some of these decors.

Because of the high height and the length of the bays, all the curtains as well as the solar blinds were motorised, and managed by a home automation system.

Architect: Pascal Goujon
Interior Architecture: Aude Gros-Rosanvallon – Holocene Design

An emblematic address of the Maison Boucheron, the oldest private mansion in Paris has regained its original volumes while combining refinement and sobriety.

The Ateliers Philippe Coudray participated in the creation of the window decors and in the installation of tapestries during its renovation in late 2018.

Facing south, the Hôtel de Nocé is bathed in sunlight from morning to night.

Only curtains made of very light fabric, mounted on thin black wrought iron rods, with simple while elegant tiebacks (created specifically for this project) allowed to control the brightness in the rooms, while preserving transparency, faithful to the aesthetics of the Maison Boucheron.

Historical Monument Chief Architect: Michel Goutal
Interior Decorator: Pierre-Yves Rochon – Cabinet Pierre-Yves Rochon