Primarily based in France, Louis Denavaut started off his qualified path in the up to date artwork entire world before becoming an inside architect and designer. Qualified at École Camondo in Paris, he then intended luxury cosmetics shops in Asia, grew to become a expert for Louis Vuitton and created household furniture for the renowned HEC Paris company school, amid other folks. In 2018, Denavaut introduced his eponymous studio, doing the job on business and residential tasks. Impressed by Alvar Aalto, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen and De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Denavaut considers the design and style of objects and the approach of drawing two key features to comprehend the rhythm of a room and realize harmony between system and aesthetics. Denavaut’s modern projects replicate how he transforms interior architecture into an artistic gesture.


Inside Layout: What was your over-all layout aim for the new workplaces on Avenue Matignon?

Louis Denavaut: Higher than all, the goal was to supply real comfort and create useful spaces, which would also be aesthetically pleasurable.

ID: What environment did you want to develop in the new workplaces on Avenue Matignon and how did you attain it?

LD: The atmosphere was developed thanks to the created-to-evaluate items of furnishings. It is challenging to set an atmosphere into terms but I experience it actually is effective visually. Often you have the sensation you will fulfill Sean Connery down the corridor.



ID: What is the story at the rear of your the latest task “Passage Thiéré”?

LD: For this challenge, we demolished all the things to begin from scratch and rethink anything with the customers, who are also my pals and younger collectors of modern artwork. So the thought was to do something that would evoke a Parisian gallery. The two curved partitions, which divide the non-public area from the residing place, authorized to make a solid id in this condominium.

ID: What about the places of work Chauchat?

LD: For this undertaking, I had to redesign the transitional spaces, together with the porch, little courtyard and staircase. The aim was to use normal features of typical Parisian structures even though offering them a subtle twist to give tribute to Andrée Putmann who after experienced her office below.



ID: What is your initial memory of style and design?

LD: My to start with reminiscences of design are additional relevant to the aged objects and homes that belonged to my grandparents. For case in point, I bear in mind a concrete tank that my grandmother had put in in the lavatory of her home in the south of France. It was like a compact indoor pool–very poetic.

ID: What designed you want to become a designer?

LD: At first, I was much more attracted to present-day artwork but then I quickly began to like a lot the options of structure (the two for objects and interiors), which can also convey an vital message, typically about what wellness is.



ID: Can you explain your preceding practical experience in the modern artwork entire world? How does it impact your function today?

LD: When I was young, I did not genuinely know what to do. I performed rugby a whole lot and did many modest careers. A person of them was to be a waiter in an artwork gallery wherever I ran into a lot of youthful artists. In the meantime the brother of a single of my mates was an artist who released us to various other young visual artists. We invested time with them, partied together, and at times we served them to install their displays. This is when I started off to like becoming included in this globe.

ID: Can you identify some people in the marketplace who encourage you and inform us why?

LD: I am amazed by my pals of Festen Architecture (we studied together) and I appreciate the work of Laurent Deroo who made all the boutiques of vogue model A.P.C. I am also fascinated by all the younger generation of Belgium architects practically nothing would seem intricate for them and they have this expertise of reinventing ruins with tiny budgets and with model.



ID: What are some of your approaching projects for 2021?

LD: There are, among the some others, a Parisian apartment [in the works] for a painter and a author, and a countryside residence in brick situated in the Baie de Somme (in the French region of Picardie), which will be a radical manifesto.

ID: What is your desire venture?

LD: I would enjoy to structure a restaurant, if a chef reads us…









