maison martin margiela @ Maison et Objet

Here is something very exciting that I need to share with you! Great, great news in fact!

Last October, I saw in Paris, an exhibition where Martin Margiela had done all the interior design of the former apartment of the architect who designed the Palais Chaillot. It was stunning and I had particularly loved the wall paper, a kind of black and white color copy rendering of doors, moldings, classic details but interpreted in a new way that made them much cooler… You can see here the pictures I took and posted at the time.

Than what did I just found? Well the wall paper in question, will be available to buy! I love it! It is produced by ENO (Editor of New Objects), a new-coming French editor of objects. Now I need to know where and when to get these trompe l’oeil stickers, but I will figure that out…

trompe l’oeil stickers of doors

feather pen and wax candle holder
pictures from Design Boom daily. more here

Martin Margiela, what are you doing!!!

Although it is said to have been a rumor for quite some time, it is now that we get into post traumatic shock…

Martin Margiela, whom we have never seen and never heard in interview, is leaving the company he founded 20 years ago!!!

His absence from the media, nonetheless didn’t interfere with his rebellious genius being recognized and celebrated all over the world. The creativity he is known for, unrelated to the trends, but more conceptual, unexpected and provocative, has gained an unparalleled stream of followers, all of whom, like me, must be disheartened.

The only comfort resides in the fact that some of the products that have long been staples, should remain on the shelves as long as what is left of the label will survive… and since Mr. Margiela believed in a team work, his successors who hopefully were his collaborators, should carry on the quintessential of his work. There might be some light at the end of the tunnel… Although it will never be the same…

photos are mine from the book “maison martin margiela, 20 the exhibition, by Momu”
and more information at fashionwiredaily.com/first_word/news/article.weml?id=2961