Begun last year with designers Studiopepe, the cycle of temporary exhibitions launched by the interior design agency Coutume{Studio} continues this summer with Vincent Poujardieu, whose series of lights called "Nida" is featured in a new exhibition design.

The incandescent swarm created by Bordeaux designer Vincent Poujardieu has captivated the Mobilier national and the French Embassy in the United States, which recently acquired some of these pieces to install them at Villa Albertine in New York. In Bordeaux, at the address inaugurated in 2019 by Frédéric Aguiard and Karine Pelloquin, the objects by the 2012 winner of the Connaissance des arts prize (awarded by the National Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters of Bordeaux) are transported into a most intimate universe, as these two decorators and interior designers explain.

1/ Coutume{Studio} orchestrates an intimate staging that makes Vincent Poujardieu's powerful creations interact with pieces by other designers, the better to highlight their respective individuality, as here, with Studiopepe's Daybed Five to Nine (Tacchini). "Vincent Poujardieu's pieces are most often exhibited in all-white settings. Rarely in spaces where they are ultimately meant to be. We wanted to extract them from their almost excessively dazzling dimension," they reveal. For the occasion, matte gold models were thus produced. Distributed within this hybrid space, halfway between showroom, gallery, and private home, they blend styles and eras: from 17th-century statues to Paola Paronetto's ceramic vases, via a contemporary walnut table by DK3 and the burnt wood Owl chairs produced by Coutume{Studio}. In doing so, Vincent Poujardieu's lights metamorphose into soft and strange dreamlike creatures...

2/ The two "Nida" table lamps play with perspectives.

3/ The floor lamp from the same collection features a base composed of a bent stainless steel tube, balanced by two thin rods that cross like sunbeams planted in the ground.

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