Inside Yves Saint Laurent’s ‘decadent’ homes
The apartment’s inside was established in the Artwork Deco type by French architect Jean-Michel in the 1920s, reflecting Saint Laurent’s obsession with the Jazz Age, which was also echoed in his all set-to-wear collections of the time. The designer was in thrall then to the streamlined nonetheless luxurious aesthetic of higher-conclusion Art Deco, and the apartment housed Eileen Gray’s Dragon armchair, stools by Pierre Legrain, vases by Jean Dunand, Gustave Miklos’s stools with a red lacquer frame and opulent pieces purchased at a 1972 sale of early 20th-Century couturier Jacques Doucet’s collection of modern art and furnishings.
A new reserve, Yves Saint Laurent at Property – Everyday living with Yves and Pierre, prepared by their pal, the inside designer Jacques Grange, showcases the couple’s 1970s residences. Their other vital 70s residence was Dar es Saada, a pink mansion in a secluded location in Marrakech, acquired in 1974, whose interiors had been redesigned by Bill Willis. For Saint Laurent, who was born in French Algeria, their Moroccan villa – surrounded by the paradisiacal Jardin Majorelle produced by French “Orientalist” painter Jacques Majorelle – supplied an escape from the commercial pressures of Paris.
“As the 1st celebs to permit their households to be photographed for interior style publications, Saint Laurent and Bergé basically reworked Marrakech into Paris’s 21st arrondissement,” writes journalist Laurence Benaïm in the guide. The openly homosexual couple experienced holidayed in Marrakech in 1967, and mingled with bohemian People Talitha and Paul Getty. The youthful, epicene Saint Laurent grew his hair, adopted a extra calm hippy seem, and smoked kief (hashish, frequent in North Africa), with his other key muse, Loulou de la Falaise. In the mid-1970s, he donned free kaftans there and in 1976 made a Moroccan-influenced, vibrantly colored womenswear selection – simple tunics and harem pants in purples and oranges.
Better acknowledged as a vogue designer, Saint Laurent is however admired by lots of for his flavor in interiors, says Martina Mondadori, editor of Cabana journal and co-writer of the guide, YSL Lexicon: An ABC of the Style, Lifetime and Inspirations of Yves Saint Laurent: “There is not a manner designer or inside decorator in the past 15 many years who hasn’t been encouraged in some capacity by Saint Laurent’s vision. Dar Es Saada was an ode to the versatile, refined globe he lived in. The circulation of rooms on the ground flooring is the great set structure for any bash. It really is as decadent as it receives, and the velvets, the colors and tiles make the whole household truly feel really intimate – eventually the solution to building everybody experience at residence.”
