For its second edition, Bienvenue Design returns to the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to the mythical Hotel La Louisiane.
From September 8 to 11 during the Paris Design Week, Bienvenue Design brings together galleries and design studios and allows its exhibitors to reinvent the hotel room spaces.
© Room 36 — Crosby Studios by Harry Nuriev In this edition, designer and architect Harry Nuriev and his firm Crosby Studios will produce a series of furniture pieces and take over room 36 for a global design set. It will be the first room in the hotel to be commissioned entirely to a designer. After the public opening, it will be available to accommodate future hotel guests who desire a fresh, personal interpretation of this historic venue, once an oasis for the arts and bohemia.
Featured Exhibitors : PAF ATELIER — FIRMAMENT Std. & RAFAEL DE CARDENAS — LA BOCCA DE LA VERITA — MANUFACTURE DE COULEUVRE — TOKIO. — ZOE RUMEAU — JN MELLOR CLUB — CILUZIO par AAMA Design — MAISON MARTIN MOREL — ATELIER CONSTANT — HIROMI — LIA ROCHAS — HOMAAR — GALERIE PRADIER-JEAUNEAU — REMIX GALLERY — MAXENCE DE BAGNEUX — MAISON VERRSEN — CROSBY STUDIOS BY HARRY NURIEV
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| Jean-François Declerq |
| Jean-François has been invigorating the contemporary design scene for more than a decade. In 2015, he founded Atelier Jespers, a non-profit art center occupying the premises of the iconic modernist atelier of Oscar Jespers, to highlight contemporary designers within an architectural landmark. More recently, he founded La Bocca de la Verita gallery, creating a unique space to give young designers the opportunity to exhibit their work. Jean-François has accompanied nearly 150 designers and collaborated with dozens of international galleries. |
| Marie Godfrain |
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| For its 2022 edition, Bienvenue Design is joined Marie Godfrain. Marie is a freelance journalist specialized in design, decorative arts, crafts and architecture. She writes weekly for M, the magazine of Le Monde, and also collaborates with IDEAT and Le Quotidien de l'Art. She teaches History of Design at the ENSCI, and has recently published a biography of the ceramist Frédéric Gautier with Actes Sud. |
The Hotel La Louisiane, our main partner |
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| Freedom : Philippe Lhomme Std. — Photo © Maurine Tric |
| Often compared to the Chelsea hotel in New York by its residents and loyal guests, La Louisiane has been active since 1823 in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près, keeping alive a good part of the neighborhood's memory. Its walls have grown thicker with both the artistic and literary activity they have hosted since the stay of Verlaine and Rimbaud. In 1943 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir settled in the hotel, and with them, it became the headquarters of Existentialism. Just like them, numerous writers, painters, visual artists, filmmakers, and photographers have passed through the rooms of La Louisiane; the likes of Juliette Gréco, Miles Davis, Nan Goldin, Lucian Freud, the members of Pink Floyd, and Quentin Tarantino, among others. There are countless historical examples that show how the creative activity has been an ongoing privilege of the hotel: Picasso encouraged the young César there, Dali joined him with Amanda Lear, Giacometti and Takis offered their works to Albert Cossery in exchange for paying for their rooms, Michael Leiris developed his reflections on art there, Keith Haring drew on its napkins; Nam June Paik enjoyed the absence of televisions in the rooms, and even Cy Twombly went so far as to state that he felt better at La Louisiane than at the Ritz. These and many others have contributed during each decade to shaping the hotel's legendary status. |
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About Bienvenue |
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Bienvenue is an events platform which aims to offer an alternative fair experience format, by connecting galleries, professionals and art industries with both collectors and amateurs in a way that rethinks the role of the fair under the terms of an open dialogue. Bienvenue.art |