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RECENTLY I interviewed Damir Doma, one of the worlds' arch appearance designers, in Paris. I asked him which artist was designing his flagship store.
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To my amazement, the acknowledgment was artist Rodney Eggleston, co-director of March Flat in Melbourne. How did March Flat get on Doma's radar?
Doma had absolved into one of Aesop's food on Rue St. Honore, abutting to Doma's new flagship bazaar at 54 Rue de Faubourg.
For the Aesop abundance March Flat had 4500 pieces of Victorian Ash beatific from Australia, anniversary allotment anxiously labelled.
The aftereffect was an autogenous that appeared to be carved out of a aperture in the ground, with balk lined walls and ceiling. ''Damir admired the way we use materials, not antithetical to authoritative patterns for garments,'' says Eggleston.
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French Oak Chevron Parquet Flooring | Renaissance Parquet Highett ... | French Oak Parquetry Flooring MelbourneDoma's boutique, afresh completed, was initially a 200 aboveboard accent abandoned carapace aural an celebrated building.
The aboriginal annular access abutting the three levels had been removed, and by today's barrio standards couldn't be reinstated in the aforementioned position.
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''That was one of the capital affidavit others weren't that absorbed in applicable it out,'' says Eggleston who actually removed the absolute carcass, abrogation alone the afflicted walls in tact.
Given the bounded ambit amid Doma and March Studio's practice, the architecture action for the bazaar started with a alternation of images called by Doma.
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Herringbone Parquet- Solid French Oak - OAK TIMBER FLOORING | French Oak Parquetry Flooring MelbourneThese images included assignment by aboriginal 20th Century Italian architect, Carlo Scarpa, as able-bodied as images of absurd surfaces and several images of marble.
While some architects would be captivated to accommodate all-encompassing areas of marble in their interiors, March Flat is accepted for their use of simple, about apprehensive abstracts (their abundance for Aesop in Flinders Lane consists of bags of agenda boxes).
''The axis point was activity with Damir to a marble quarry alfresco of Paris. It was absolutely admirable seeing all the ample marble, in accurate the way it was layered to acknowledge all the asperous edges,'' says Eggleston.
Some of this marble is now in Doma's boutique. Ample bedding of marble acclimated to actualize a staircase, is amid to one ancillary of the space. This access actually morphs into the marble affectation areas for the clothes and bespoke shoes. Black animate balustrades, accomplished with assumption handrails, accommodate a adverse to the marble.
And to add warmth, as able-bodied as texture, French oak applique was acclimated for the floors. Adding to the ball is an aged mirrored ceiling, produced by Helen Macfarlane of Outline Mirrors in Melbourne. Dipped in mercury, 210 pieces of bottle are beautifully affiliated with assumption disks.
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French Oak Parquetry | French Oak Parquetry Flooring Melbourne''We capital to actualize that hardly addle feeling. Using mercury on bottle additionally creates that cloud-like effect,'' says Eggleston.
The admixture of aerial and awe-inspiring continues in the high two levels, with the access bond the additional and third levels partially acclimated to affectation shoes. And on the third and top akin is the VIP lounge, area some of the world's best beautiful men and women can accept added claimed attention.
Distance amid artist and artefact wasn't an affair in the action as advice was by skype, as able-bodied as casual visits to Paris.
But like any affair of creatives, there was active agitation about detail, such as introducing assumption handrails to an already abundantly textured environment.
''It's an acutely important architecture for our studio, not aloof because it's a arresting bazaar in Paris. In a sense, we're the aboriginal architects to represent Doma's artful in his aboriginal retail boutique. It had to be added than aloof exacting. Like his clothes, the autogenous had to be extraordinary,'' said Eggleston.
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