Mattia Bonetti is a provocative Swiss-born designer based in Paris whose curvaceous wooden standing vases and lamps caught our attention in Les Puces last year and quickly found there way to the home of a Paris client!  We also featured Bonetti’s work here on our blog last spring when he was showing new work in NY. The first two photos above are from that incredible exhibition.

He worked with Elizabeth Garouste for a period in the 1980s through the late 1990s creating works that explore the line between art and design, which is a theme finding it’s way into more and more designers work and consequently some important collections. This is evidenced by the sale of their work that was presented in the Sotheby’s Paris sale of 20th Century Decorative art on November 26th. The above gold chevet (bedside table) sold for 47,100 Euros (Estimate 12,000-15,000 Euros)!  And this black console (Estimate 4,00-6,000 Euros), which could be a stunning counterpoint to more traditional objects, didn’t sell while the signed rug in the same image above sold within it’s estimate of 3,000- 5,000 Euros. There are still great opportunities here!

We are enchanted by the idea of living in an artistic interior that reflects our sensibilities in terms of the form of the objects. This work truly merges the world of art and functional design and opens the door to new experiences through design.

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