ЯEVOLUTION ARCHSTUDIO BY ROBERTO BELLANTONI – PREVIEW FUORISALONE 2024

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The Collection Esprit de Paris

A sentimental and cultural journey through the heart of the Ville Lumière, among intellectuals seated at the tables of the Café de Flore” and the jam sessions at the “Club du Tabou”. This is the origin of the collection Esprit de Paris launched by ЯEVOLUTION ARCHSTUDIO by Roberto Bellantoni. Objects and furnishing complement that take shape through a design process that explores that cultured and exclusive way of “being together”, à la Parisienne. The collection came to life through a creative process where the designer imagined himself among Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir, Duke Ellington and Juliette Gréco, Charles Asnavour, and Édith Piaf. Thoughts, voices, music, stories, and visions chase each other in an atmosphere that envelops, thrills and pushes us to travel through time to take part in a reality that belongs to the past century but also our dreams.

As if they were people, the furniture and objects admire encounters, and conversations, and trigger new relationships in their turn, as they become visible traces of the French city. Roberto Bellantoni transports the collection Esprit de Paris into an ideal apartment in Montmartre or another hidden corner of the city and recreates environments where rites and rituals of different encounters, elegant moments of social life, are expressed room after room.

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Every piece wears the name of a person: Didier the bar cabinet in ebony, maple frisé, pewter, and brass with refined details, Marie, the cart with a double tray and leather coating created together with the foldable side table Antoinette, the sculptural turntable Charles, strictly reserved for vinyl collections, and Coco and Yves, respectively a hexagonal glacette and ice bucket in silver-coated brass. This living room would not have been complete without a tea corner with the three-piece service Genevieve, also with geometric shapes and in silver-coated brass, just like the board games Shangai, Minou, and Jenga, Bizet, all made with colors and materials matching the hues of the collection. The ashtray Bernard and matchbox Brigitte, both in precious onyx, are dedicated to the now obsolete memory of the Fumoir.

The collection is completed by the reinterpretation of one of the brand’s iconic pieces, the PREETI Lamp, which for the occasion is dressed in white briar and takes on the role of:  L’ami en blanc.