Architect Aline Asmar d’Amman has designed a private salon at Le19M, Chanel's hub for craftsmanship, to showcase the work of its specialty workshops.
on several projects, including the design of luxury suites for the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, and has maintained a close relationship withon the edge of Paris. Asmar d’Amman has designed Le Petit Salon, a private space for receptions and events, in collaboration with several ofNearly $2 Million in Counterfeit Designer Clothing and Jewelry Seized in Two Palm Beach Stores by Police
The entrance to Le Petit Salon is accessed from the interior garden of Le19M’s headquarters designed by award-winning architect Rudy Ricciotti, a striking structure covered in a concrete shell evoking threads. “I love the strength and the force of this building,” Asmar d’Amman enthused. “It’s a giant dream catcher,” said Asmar d’Amman, who sees it as a space for contemplation. “The gesture of the hand has something very mystical, and it’s a moment of concentration and a moment of meditation.”
“I would hide under the table when the bombs were really very violent and open a book and that meant silence. I really felt protected by a book,” she recalled. Her powers of transformation are on full display in the first-floor salon, which visitors access straight out of the elevator. What was once a plain white landing has been turned into an intimate reception room, open by appointment only.
Some of the articulated screens are inscribed with handwritten texts drawn from the writings of female authors such as Virginia Woolf, Anaïs Nin, Marguerite Duras, Nadia Tueni and Etel Adnan.
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