At Studio Liaigre’s London Showroom, Parisian Elegance Prevails

Liaigre’s London showroom has had a pre-Christmas face lift, with carefully arranged new room sets and a number of new pieces introduced to the collection. They include the Catamaran coffee table, whose top is composed of wide woven strips of collet leather—the heavier hide that comes from the cow’s neck. It was originally designed for a penthouse in Greenwich Village with inspiration from another major project Studio Liaigre had completed in Bora Bora, where roofs are made of woven pandanus leaves. The leather comes in three colors—black, white, or chocolate—and is also for the handsome, fold-up Bazane stool.

The showroom, with its white walls and fine plaster details, is a neutral backdrop for Liaigre’s blend of Parisian elegance, where fine materials form the backbone of each piece, and thick silk carpets in brown and taupe sit on wide-planked wooden floor. The new Brizan lamp, for example, is a horizontal light with a patinated brass shade and a white sand-blasted cedar base. But around the walls, London’s Atlas gallery has been invited to hang a series of artworks. They include one of Richard Caldicott’s abstract compositions where he layers multiple transparencies before photographing them from above. (His work is currently on view at the nearby Victoria & Albert Museum, as part of Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection.)