paris desk

The desk design presented here was specially made for a client's iconic apartment. This apartment had been designed in 1929 by Pierre Chareau for Mrs Fahri. Not much of his work had survived. The assignment here was to eliminate what did not have its place in this poetic and highly eccentric flat overlooking a garden square. The intervention was major, but surgical and respectful of Chareau’s magically evocative ideas and uniqueness. The desk design is a ‘clin d’oeil’ to the architect, and also to Palladio whose San Giorgio Maggiore, the owners favourite church, is printed on the surface. The wood used is a precious rosewood, a Chareau favourite, and the top is interchangeable with any image requested – as long as it is aesthetically pleasing….