Pierre Yovanovitch exhibit explores “budding romance” between imaginary characters

Bear-shaped armchairs and cushions embroidered with crimson lips are amongst French designer Pierre Yovanovitch’s newest assortment of furnishings, that are on show at New York gallery R & Firm.

Yovanovitch has reworked the R & Firm gallery house into a number of home scenes to show the gathering titled Love. He has enhance the inside to liven up the imaginary character Miss Oops, who repeatedly seems in his designs.

Pierre Yovanovitch has reworked the R & Firm gallery right into a sequence of home scenes for his fictionalised character Miss Oops

“The exhibition will lead friends via an unfolding narrative centred round an imaginary recurring character within the designer’s work referred to as Miss Oops,” R & Firm mentioned.

“Guests encounter completely different home scenes symbolising the emotional evolution of the Miss Oops’ budding romance: beginning within the parlour, resulting in the eating room, then the boudoir, and ending within the bed room.”

Pentagon-shaped Match desk and a set of Madame and Monsieur Oops chairs kind the exhibit’s eating room

Miss Oops first appeared in Yovanovitch’s work on the Design Parade Toulon competition in France in 2018, marking the start of the designer’s exploration with “scenography”.

“To deliver my work out of the context of a personal residence and right into a scenography of my creation is so particular, because it not solely permits me to dabble in my ardour for set design and narrative and showcase my designs to the better public, which is one thing I not often have the privilege to do,” Yovanovitch mentioned.

Cuddly bear-like chairs characteristic in OOPS furnishings assortment by Pierre Yovanovitch

Yovanovitch labored with woodworkers, ceramists, ironworkers, glass makers and upholsterers to create the chairs, couch, tables, cushions, rug and mattress body that make up the Love sequence.

Alongside the 20 new gadgets are a number of modern works – like work and sculptures – that Yovanovitch chosen from New York galleries Perrotin New York, Lehmann Maupin New York, Salon 94, Almine Rech New York and Kamel Mennour.

Extra whimsical graphic parts, deep-coloured partitions and mushy lighting are paired with the items to additional discover the exhibition’s theme of affection.

To proceed the gathering’s narrative, Yovanovitch adorned the Oops chairs with confronted

“Yovanovitch’s interiors have a tremendous heat, magnificence and subtlety which makes the areas dynamic. By including humour to critical design, he creates a brand new aesthetic,” R & Firm co-founder Zesty Meyers added.

Two ear-like nubs prime the Daydream Mama and Papa Bear armchairs positioned within the house’s parlour room, which options darkish blue partitions and a neon signal. The cosy chairs are additionally embellished with embroidered fingers and arms that had been woven onto the customized upholstered items to offer the allusion that it’s being hugged.

A number of cushions and textiles that includes lips and different lust-influenced symbols had been created for the gathering

Positioned inside the exhibition’s eating room is the big pentagonal Match desk with darkish blue patinated metal legs. Surrounding the desk are Yovanovitch’s Madame and Monsieur Oops chairs, outlined by their nearly similar shapes. The Madame design contains a heart-shaped upholstered again, whereas the cushioning on its masculine counterpart inverts that design.

Different items within the assortment embody Take Off, a rounded mattress body made out of oak, Frolocking rug, which weaves collectively wool, mohair and silk and a number of other cushions, and bedspreads detailed with lips and different lust-influenced symbols.

The ultimate room within the gallery house is the bed room the place Yovanovitch designed a rounded mattress body and embroidered mattress unfold

The Love sequence and accompanying exhibition will probably be on show on the R & Firm White Avenue gallery 6 November 2019 to four January 2020.

R & Firm is a New York primarily based design exhibition house based by Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman. Different designers which have displayed work within the gallery embody Sebastian Errazuriz who created a chandelier utilizing 100 stuffed birds and Bae Se Hwa together with his sequence of curvaceous darkish wooden benches and lounge chairs.

Yovanovitch based his Paris studio in 2001. His earlier tasks embody different fuzzy bear-shaped armchairs, a boldly painted reward store in Paris, and a London restaurant with salmon pink partitions and a cooking-themed mural.

​Images is by Stephen Kent Johnson.