Console in black chestnut F04
Tabletop in Mirage Shagreen leather from Nobilis, colour 10404.04
Ceramic decorative inserts
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Jacques Doucet (1853-1929) was the most celebrated couturier of Belle Époque Paris before assembling one of the most legendary private collections of his era, spanning eighteenth-century French decorative arts to the emerging avant-garde. He sold his period collection to fund his passion for the new, commissioning furniture from Eileen Gray and Pierre Legrain and acquiring Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon directly from the artist’s studio.
The Poiret Console is named for Paul Poiret, the ‘King of Fashion’ and Jacques Doucet’s great contemporary and friendly rival, a couturier who shared Doucet’s taste for exotic materials and dramatic silhouettes even as the two competed for the same Parisian clientele. Garcé & Dimofski build the console in black chestnut, a dark, tailored base worthy of two men famous for their sense of theatre.
The tabletop is finished in Mirage shagreen leather from Nobilis, a material both Poiret and Doucet’s era prized for its exotic, jewel-like texture, here paired with ceramic decorative inserts that add a cooler, more contemporary note. It is a piece built on the same tension between historical luxury and modern edit that defined both men’s legacies.
Few men have left such an indelible mark on the imaginations of art patrons and aesthetes. Jacques Doucet was the archetype of the modern collector, with a love of culture as vast as his curiosity and flair for the new. As a couturier, he mentored Paul Poiret and Madeleine Vionnet while dressing celebrities and heiresses. As a collector, he amassed the most legendary trove of rarities and masterpieces from the 18th century to the avant-garde, including Picasso, Klee, Matisse, and de Chirico, while commissioning furniture from Eileen Gray and Pierre Legrain, who decorated his last home, the fabled Studio Saint James. Now, his legacy lives on through a furniture collection available exclusively through Invisible Collection.
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Flint Terracotta
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Linterno Fabric : St Moritz/Nobili