Plumbing brands seek to cooperate with successful couturiers, surprising bold collaborations. Jacob Delafon invited Alexis Mabia, a haute couture master, to design bathroom furniture. About the new experience - in an exclusive interview for interior.ru

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Alexis Mabii is a Frenchman, the author of the prêt-à-porter and haute couture collections. Young, but already popular brand. The designer easily and artistically entered the territory of the luxury interior. Designed La Collection for Jacob Delafon from luxurious white marble - it includes a bath, shower, washbasin and interior accessories.

Collection Alexis Mabille haute couture fall / winter 2015-2016.

The collection will interest my usual customers, those who buy haute couture clothes and want to be unique. They ask decorators to do the craziest things - and they have money for it.

“Jacob Delafon wanted to make a completely new product, which is not typical for them, so they turned to me. They knew that I already have a little experience in interior decoration, and I also created several pieces of furniture. I was given almost complete carte blanche, putting only a few restrictions. It was necessary something French and feminine, very luxurious and luxurious. It was just that easy - I just painted the perfect bathroom for my own home. La Collection is what came to my mind from the very beginning, and the company immediately approved the project. To give femininity, I made all forms very soft and rounded, but at the same time graphic, neoclassical.

The characteristic element is figuratively carved marble wall panels. Thanks to them, the whole bathroom seems to be a precious casket.

The whole collection is very selfish. I really did a bathroom for my own apartment.

The bathroom looks like a big fundamental bowl of a park fountain - it served as the starting point for the entire project. First, I came up with its shape and chose the material, then we were looking for a long time to get a super-soft marble surface. And only after that began to create the rest of the collection. He approached the process as if it were a project for decorating a room: as if he worked with an architect, a decorator, contractors, etc. Plus he invested a lot of his own understanding about design - each item must be timeless and fit any interior, even very modern.

The slightly boudoir style, the kalakatta marble, which resembles a gold-plated shower room, makes the La Collection charming.

Despite some experience in interior decoration and furniture design, the technical side of developing a sanitary collection has become the most complex and interesting at the same time. There were practically no serious technical limitations: the engineers really tried to bring all my ideas to life. In this case, the main focus of the collection is more on design and appearance than on manufacturability. Although, of course, all subjects are very practical.

In total there will be five colors of marble: red, beige, green, pink with veins and white. In the decoration of furniture - gold or silver. Bath, shower and sink will be made of one block of marble - so that the pattern of the vein is the same. It is important to give the customer a choice. But personally, my favorite combination is what we presented at the exhibition. ”