John Hatton is considered one of the best American designers and decorators of the second half of the 20th century. His name has become synonymous with elegant luxury, and not least thanks to the European, more precisely, French influence.

Interest in French design woke up in his student years. John Douglas's son says: "In the 50s-60s, when my father studied at the New York FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), French furniture dictated fashion. For that time, it was everything. My father fell under the spell of French design, and it was love for life. " John Hutton had an interest in classic French styles throughout his creative work. It was he who eventually brought the designer to the city of Nancy, the famous French factory PIERRE COLLECTION.

Initially at the facilities PIERRE COLLECTION only the line of furniture and accessories Ensemble by John Hutton was produced. One day, John accidentally got into the attic of a factory building and found samples of French furniture over the past few hundred years. Looking at them, for the first time, he truly realized what French design is. As a result, John still could not part with PIERRE COLLECTION. Moreover, he became the chief designer of the brand. To be closer to production, he moved to Nancy. He settled in the apartment, which eventually became a real collection of masterpieces of his French period, which captured more than one year.

This apartment is a spacious apartment in a historic building on the central square of Nancy. She is elegant and interesting, to become a creator. Each thing has its own story - a story connected with John. Moreover, in each of these stories he is the main character. Mood dictates furniture from PIERRE COLLECTIONmade by the designer. The atmosphere is created primarily classical. But this classic is not the same as everyone’s, special. “Many famous designers tried to fantasize about classical French styles, but it was only a superficial experience. External signs changed - some decorative elements were eliminated. At the same time, the essence - proportions, form construction - remained the same,” Douglas explains. the father, on the contrary, wanted to get closer to the basics and make variations on the theme, not banal copies. " But merely changing the proportions of the monsieur to Hatton was obviously not enough. His furniture is a mix of classic and modern. “A harmonious combination of past and present was for him. He considered the mixture of innovative form and classic content to be the embodiment of glamor, such, you know, mood in the rhythm of rock and roll,” smiles Douglas. would be a real drive. "

The interior design used religious design things of the XX century. They appeared here at the suggestion of the family of John, to whom, after the death of the designer, the apartment had departed, since John himself had a relationship with modernity, especially in the face of design, quite complicated. More precisely, they were not there at all. “My father didn’t understand modern design at all, didn’t participate in a designer get-together, didn’t look at thematic magazines ...” says Douglas.

If John thought little of modernity, then the past was the subject of his hobby - in the apartment here and there, there are antiquarian objects from his collection. "Antiques get along well with the furniture that my father did," Douglas remarks. level of election. "