Fabrice Juan first stepped out to discovered his personal company in 2011 following intensive work expertise as Jean-Louis Deniot’s challenge supervisor – and a supportive push from his spouse. Dedicated to the French artwork of dwelling, he draw’s inspiration from basic structure, high-end supplies, made-to-measure work, and intimate collaborations with craftsmen.
A dialogue between structure and furnishings design, innovation and elegance, presents itself throughout Juan’s portfolio. The general aesthetic he crafts for purchasers is one in all timelessness, seamlessly combining basic components and up to date styling. You’ll discover examples of this within the stability between the staircase and the patinated front room finishes in his Iéna challenge, or the Twin Peaks espresso desk as angular American walnut and Calacatta marble overlap, and the Sunray sideboard as shiny lacquer, brass, and matte wooden veneer meld. Arguably a few of Juan’s items, such because the Saint-Germain bench and the Capsule armchair, may already be thought of iconic.
Fabrice Juan Photograph: Francis Amiand
Juan himself has an training in each woodworking and inside design, giving him a novel perspective on the creation and curation of product and areas. He nonetheless has ties with the proficient people he found throughout his woodworking coaching, and a few relationships, similar to with the Gohard and Prométhée workshops, have led to fantastic working partnerships.
Different influences embody designers Jean-Michel Frank and Gio Ponti, together with accrued life experiences, similar to his first go to to the The Palais Bulles, Pierre Cardin’s home. “It’s positioned within the south of France with a phenomenal view of the ocean. I used to be amazed by the natural varieties and weird structure of the buildings, in addition to its pink shade, which made it a really iconic piece of structure,” Juan displays on his first impression of the construction. “As well as, I like the truth that it was owned by a clothier, Pierre Cardin, who accomplished the development.”
One other, maybe sudden, inspiration for Juan is present in movie scores, such because the work of composers Michel Legrand, Ennio Morricone, and Francis Lai, gifted musical artists from the Nineteen Seventies. “I’ve at all times been impressed by movie music. If I have been to strive one other creative medium, it will be movie music composition,” he shares. “To me, a movie rating can take advantage of transformative distinction in understanding the imaginative and prescient of a director.”
It’s compelling the best way that Juan borrows from completely different experiences, relationships, and influences to craft his personal influential fashion. His latest initiatives have included a number of personal residences in France and overseas, and we’re wanting ahead to his storied future.
Fabrice Juan now joins us for this week’s Friday 5!
I really like his structure and the brutalist really feel of his work. In most of his buildings, you possibly can expertise an ideal stability, a symmetry, or, quite the opposite, an assumed asymmetry. His architectural designs are harking back to kids’s playthings, with some buildings utilizing sturdy colours: pinks, blues, and reds. There’s at all times one thing stunning about his creations.
Photograph: Fabrice Juan
The Antonio Canova Museum is a spot I’m very keen on. It’s within the north of Italy, within the city the place the Nineteenth-century painter and sculptor was born. It’s a area I go to frequently, and I really like spending time within the museum, which brings collectively a lot of his sculptures, in addition to visiting part of his personal residence. What I additionally actually take pleasure in on this a part of the world is the renovation work carried out by Carlo Scarpa, an Italian architect, within the Nineteen Fifties, which in flip conjures up my very own work.
Photograph: Philippe Guignard
3. Jean Dewasne
I’ve at all times been very impressed by the format of Jean Dewasne’s works: large, graphic, and intensely colourful frescoes made up of strains, rectangles, and circles in sensible finishes. In every part of the work, one thing is expressed via the motifs. You would possibly even get the impression that there isn’t any finish to the geometry that makes them up, and I really like with the ability to draw inspiration from them to create a sample or a form that can then feed into my designs and furnishings creations.
It’s a novel place, a mysterious home belonging to one of many best French artists of the twentieth century, which has simply opened to the general public. I used to be fortunate sufficient to go to Serge Gainsbourg’s residence on rue de Verneuil in Paris, a spot stuffed with emotion and really shifting. A multi-faceted artist, singer, composer, director, author, and painter, he proves via these completely different skills that creation will be various and that inspiration can come from all horizons. I’ve at all times cherished his style in ornament as a result of he cherished objects and valued their placement, particularly in the best way the rooms have been embellished, with the position of the photograph frames, the black cloth on the partitions, and the skillful use of black and white on this inspirational residence.
I’m notably keen on movies from the 70s, with a desire for the filmography of French director Claude Sautet, who had a number of the best French actors and actresses in entrance of his digital camera. On this photograph from the movie César et Rosalie with Romy Schneider, we see Yves Montand and Samy Frey chatting with the director in a seaside bed room setting, with rattan furnishings and a rope carpet, typical of the period. I really like the best way this director tackles easy topics that everybody can relate to and the ambiance, the colours of the units and the images in his movies are at all times a supply of inspiration for me.
Work by Fabrice Juan:
Tai Ping Carpets x Fabrice Juan
Magellan Photograph: Francis Amiand
Iéna Photograph: Stéphan Julliard
D’Eylau Photograph: Xavier Béjot
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Neuilly sur Seine Photograph: Xavier Béjot
