Merging classic and modern stylings, the collection displays timeless design suffused with French elegance.
THG Paris, the leading French atelier in faucets and bath accessories whose collaborations with prestigious brands include Lalique, Baccarat and Christofle, announced its latest collection — Les Ondes, which is French for “waves” — at the 2018 Architectural Digest Design Show.
Les Ondes is the first product collaboration between THG Paris and the internationally recognized interior design duo of Patrick Gilles and Dorothée Boissier, but not the first partnership. Gilles & Boissier has designed and outfitted several projects with THG Paris products, including the Baccarat Hotel property.
Gilles & Boissier revisited the styling of a Baccarat crystal lamp they designed for the Baccarat Hotel in New York for the new THG Paris bath collection, with the fixture’s faceted crystal sides recalling the transparency of water.
“We are privileged to have Patrick and Dorothée translate their signature stylings into an exclusive bath collection for our brand,” says Pedro Uranga, the North American director of THG Paris.
Merging classic and modern stylings, the Gilles & Boissier collection displays timeless design suffused with French elegance. The collection draws inspiration from the transparency of water, and on top of the faucet’s 10-sided faceted base sits a trident-shaped brace reminiscent of Neptune, a Roman sea deity.
The collection is available with cross or lever handles, and like all THG Paris products, is offered in various configurations for basins, matching bathtub and shower systems and a range of matching accessories. THG Paris offers a variety of finishes to complement each design, including but not limited to chrome, nickel and soft gold.
In addition to the collection’s debut at the AD Design Show, the new collection will display in THG Paris’ design center in the Decoration & Design Building in New York.
Photos courtesy of THG Paris
The invisible collection began with two friends who saw a need for a website that offered some of the most exclusive items from the best names in French design in one marketplace.
The Invisible Collection has added its first British interior designer, Sophie Ashby, to its list of revered international designers and architects who contribute to its selection of furniture and household accessories.
The Invisible Collection is a website that provides people a way to online shop the private collections of Europe’s interior designers and architects. The website began with two friends, Anna Zaoui and Isabelle Dubern, who saw there was a need for a website that offered some of the most exclusive items from the best names in French design in one marketplace. From there, Zaoui and Dubern expanded to include designers from other European countries to make their company international.
A few noteworthy designers who contribute to the Invisible Collection are India Mahdavi, a French architect, industrial designer, graphic designer and furniture designer, Hubert Le Gall, a French designer, sculptor, scenographer and painter, and Federica Tondato, an Italian architect and interior designer. The addition of Ashby, the creative director of Studio Ashby, to the list of designers has widened the scope of the Invisible Collection to include pieces by British designers.
Studio Ashby’s first furniture collection in collaboration with the Invisible Collection consists of 17 pieces. The collection was designed for private residential projects in the United Kingdom, including a riverside penthouse on the Southbank, a holiday home on the coast in the new forest and a family home in Holland Park.
The collection draws inspiration from art, nature and the places Ashby has traveled to and experienced. From the works of Yves Klein to Jean Arp, and the Japanese Kyoto gardens of Holland Park to the colors of the Karoo, Ashby’s nomadic upbringing and love for travel, combined with her artistic sensibility, grant a unique personality to her designs.
Ashby’s different experiences have each fed her understanding of design, its power and its possibility — from the vast nature of the south African landscape to the small rooms of a Victorian house in the city, and the urban intensity of New York to the rural charm of the English countryside.
Photos courtesy of www.theinvisiblecollection.com