Valérie Lapierre

Sep 24, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Thomas Adank |Valérie Lapierre

In December 1946, a 41-year-old Christian Dior opened his new maison de couture in an understated Neoclassical hôtel particulier on one of the six thoroughfares that form spokes off the Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées in Paris. ‘It had to be 30 Avenue Montaigne,’ he later declared.

Jul 15, 2023 | worldofinteriors.com | Valérie Lapierre |Suzanne Wathelet |Ivan Shaw

Jadot is descended from six generations of high-end furniture makers. ‘My natural habitat is the workshop,’ he says. ‘As a child I was allowed to use the offcuts of wood and fabric to make toys and huts. Since then I’ve never thrown anything away. I use the rejects to make something else - I make use of everything.’ Witness his hand covered in scribbles. ‘I use it like a Post-it note,’ he explains, laughing.