Christine and John Gachot have a Frank Lloyd Wright desk that has moved with them all over Manhattan. “Avenue C and Third to Bond – not when Bond Street was cool, by the way,” says Christine, who founded interior design outfit Gachot Studios with John, her husband, in 2012. She picked up the streamlined mahogany Taliesin design at the Chelsea Flea, and over the course of 30 years it has served as everything from a vanity unit to a base for her kids’ Lego installations. More recently, it provided inspiration for a new furniture collection, created exclusively for online design hub Artemest, launching on 20 April.
A Pied A Terre apartment in Paris designed by Maxime Bousquet © Ludovic Balay
Vintage influences are rife in design today – and art deco flourishes are particularly prevalent. While period interiors are being zhuzhed up – see The Savoy hotel’s recent revamp of its art deco rooms or the Orient Express’s restoration of original 1920s train carriages (rolling on to tracks next year) – new projects such as Parisian architect and interior designer Maxime Bousquet’s Pied A Terre apartments capture the mood. The latest release from Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades revives designs by 1920s collaborator Pierre Legrain – from a dressing table to book covers and bindings, which have been rethought as rugs and textiles. Interpretations of the era are also being cast as contemporary would-be heirlooms, rich in materiality and craftsmanship. Several deco-esque collections are debuting at Salone del Mobile in Milan this month and NYCxDesign in May.
