Lebanese architect Aline Asmar d'Amman is launching an eponymous furniture line with The Invisible Collection.
Almost a decade later, she’s back at the 150-year-old space for the launch of her first eponymous furniture collection, which is on display among 300 historic objects, including an oversize bookcase once owned by the 19th-century couturier Jacques Doucet.
Fashion plays a major role in her design process. Helmut Newton’s iconic snapshot of a model in a black Yves Saint Laurent trouser suit was on her mood board when she designed the Smoking line of luminaries, named after the French word for tuxedo.©Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt/Courtesy of Culture in Architecture
Asmar d’Amman said the design was four years in the making and involved collaborating with master upholsterer Charles Jouffre on a structure that is as visually flawless as an haute couture gown. “When I enter a place like that, the first thing I do is to start writing a story with fashion characters. I imagine how they would look walking through those rooms today,” she said. “In this place, you have to imagine the Marchesa Casati, but dressed in John Galliano,” she suggested, referring to the Italian aristocrat known for her eccentric style.
Though she’s now based in Paris, her outlook was shaped by those early impressions. “You learn so many things: first of all, to enjoy the instant and to celebrate life when it’s possible. And also, probably from my mother, that beauty is also about dignity and beauty saves you every day,” Asmar d’Amman said.
Together with the historical marble makers of Laboratorio Morseletto in Italy, she is also using recovered materials like the pink onyx and scarred Vincenza stone that make up her Stone Cloud coffee tables. Meanwhile, slabs of marble, salvaged from luxury stores, are repurposed in a series of plinths.
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