French designer Joseph Diran (Joseph Dirand) has repeatedly called the designer of the year and nominated for prestigious awards. His strong point is luxurious minimalism. The portfolio includes the interiors of fashionable Parisian restaurants and American hotels.
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He is forty-three, and give no more than twenty. “For ten years now I have not eaten meat,” he smiles. But the point, of course, is not only that. Diran - of the lucky designers, in his career there were no falls, only ups.
Joseph's father is a famous interior photographer, his mother is the 1970s “it-girl”. He spent his childhood surrounded by art and celebrities. He traveled a lot with his father, he saw the world while still a teenager. Choosing a profession, did not hesitate for a minute. It was necessary to determine only the genre: a great architecture or interior design. “I was always more like a visual, I didn't like to calculate, draw,” Diran says. “Therefore, I was ordered to the architectural university.” He entered the Paris Belleville school and graduated with a red diploma. “As they say, I was born in a shirt. I received my first orders in my second year, so by the fifth, I already had a solid portfolio. ” Your studio is 25 years old when many just enter interns in architectural bureaus - is this not a success?
At 27, he receives an order, which he is still proud of - the design of the Balmain boutique in Paris, followed by offers from Givenchy, Chloé, Emilio Pucci, Alexander Wang, Balenciaga. For each House, Diran offered a concept that reflects the brand's DNA: monochrome Alexander Wang and caramel-glamor Emilio Pucci. The first projects of Diran are dubbed ascetic.
He was often asked tricky questions in the spirit of "how to organize emptiness?" The designer himself does not consider himself a minimalist. “I don’t like crowded rooms, that’s true,” he says. - I like working with volumes, playing with textures, I like to reveal the texture of stone and wood. My interiors only seem empty. They need to peer, then you comprehend all their beauty. "
"I am against" fast food interiors "! A small budget should not interfere with a comfortable interior. ”
A fresh project of Diran - Hotel Four Seasons in Miami. Pastel scale, no marble, interior gardening, almost glamor. The designer says that this is a new round of creativity. “I started from scratch, having understood it literally. My style was formed gradually, from a youthful maximalist denial, I turned to elegant restraint, which came with a mature age. "
Joseph Diran - a famous collector. In his collection - rare "primary" Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand. Inspired by the creations of the masters, he launched his own furniture line: architectural tables, seating furniture, elegant coffee tables, a set of accessories. What are your plans? “I'll record the soundtrack or organize an online auction,” smiles Joseph.
