Jakob + MacFarlane
13, rue des Francs Bourgeois
I have always loved Jakob + MacFarlane for its work in the restaurant Georges at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.The restaurant remains, to this day, a futuristic fantasy, perfectly unexpected.
It was not until I revisited the Florence Loewy bookstore in the Marais, home to Jakob + MacFarlane’s “hive” of plywood bookshelves, that I found inspiration for my own Marais boutique.
The architects and I subsequently joined forces and envisioned a place where imagination knows no bounds: a design that defies the laws of nature with a structure of floating islands that appear suspended in time. More precisely, a mirrored box, slipped into the existing shell of a historic building, where a cluster of buoyant islands could be reflected into infinity. The endless visual complexity produced by the mirrors is an invitation to reflect on your own, while choosing the perfume that defines you.
F.M.
Promise by Dominique Ropion is our newest addition to the Middle East collection, and a perfume one does not easily forget. Two precious varieties of rose, lifted by apple, pink pepper and clove, and bound to a sensuous base of patchouli, cypriol and labdanum, celebrate one of the strongest bonds in human relationships, keeping one’s word.
A new Editions de Parfums store is opening in Milan this month, designed by Frédéric Malle himself as his own Milanese pied-à-terre. Adapting his own taste to the original structure and style of the building, he has married 1940s neoclassicism with constellation of modern objects in a paradigm of architectural rigor.
Laguna B, a leader in Venetian glass craftsmanship, has created a limited edition line for Frédéric Malle of five candles in Murano glass. Colorful, playfully extravagant and skillfully executed, each candle is a unique collector’s item, never again replicated.
