Paris exhibition of Jacques Tati's Villa Arpel from the movie set of Mon Oncle presented by Domeau & Pérès and Les Films de Mon Oncle (2009) © Benoît Fougeirol
November 26, 2019 (Miami Beach) – Les Ateliers Courbet and Thirlwall Design present Please Be Seated, a capsule installation offering a glimpse at French filmmaker Jacques Tati’s iconic designs in his 1958 film Mon Oncle (My Uncle) – one of the director’s most acclaimed satires on modern design, lifestyle and consumerism. Scheduled in conjunction with the release of Taschen's Jacques Tati: The Complete Work, the installation will debut at Design Miami in December 2019 and be presented subsequently at the New York gallery from January–March 2020. With Please Be Seated, Les Ateliers Courbet introduces to the United States the sole edition of Tati designs ever made, produced by esteemed design studio Domeau & Pérès in collaboration with Jacques Tati’s Estate “Les Films de Mon Oncle.”
The French master craftsmen and design publishers Domeau & Pérès pay homage to Tati’s visionary designs and whims with a limited edition of three visually appealing and completely impractical seats. The “Tati Collection” has been exhibited in European museums and institutions since its 2007 unveiling in Paris with the actual Villa Arpel from the Mon Oncle movie set. The restored Villa was pulled from the archives for the first time since 1958. The collection was also included in the French Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. Today, the three seats belong to important public and private collections including that of Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
In Mon Oncle, Tati shares his questioning of and satirical perspective on modernism and modern design through the misadventures of his iconic character, the candid and clumsy Monsieur Hulot. Certainly visionary at the time, Tati’s work and ideas feel as relevant today as they were in Mr. Hulot’s 1950s.
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About Les Ateliers Courbet
Established in 2013, New York-based design gallery LES ATELIERS COURBET presents a curation program focused on the ongoing craftsmanship and design legacies of the centuries-old manufacturers and contemporary artisans it represents. The gallery’s exhibitions along with its collections of furniture and decorative arts objects, highlight the ongoing dialogues and collaborations between master craftsmen and artists around the world.
While anchored in cultural heritage, Courbet’s selection includes both sought-after works culled from the archives and contemporary pieces.
Since its opening, Les Ateliers Courbet works closely with each studio to place and donate pieces to museums and institutions such as the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Philip Johnson Glass House, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.
While growing its gallery program with institutional collaborations, exhibitions and publications, Les Ateliers Courbet aims to further support its portfolio of master craftsmen and contribute to the ongoing legacy they carry on, through the Editions Courbet – a collection of limited edition pieces created by guest artists, designers, luminaries and handcrafted by Les Ateliers Courbet’s master craftsmen. Its early collaborations have included rug editions by Frank Gehry, Vladimir Kagan and Nepalese weavers, as well as a silverwork edition by Wiener Silber Manufactur and Dutch designer Aldo Bakker.
Les Ateliers Courbet
134 Tenth Avenue, New York 10011
https://www.ateliercourbet.com/
About Thirlwall Design
THIRLWALL is an interior architecture and design practice with offices in Miami and New York and a wide scope of global projects both residential and commercial.
Led by creative director James J. Wall, the firm has garnered recognition from an international clientele over seventeen years for its astute design approach and concepts and its attention to materials and building processes. The team has developed a rich portfolio of interior projects each of which combines idiosyncratic vernacular with clean materiality.
Founder James J. Wall, has honed an acute eye, a layered aesthetic and multicultural knowledge throughout the various countries in which he grew up, studied and lived. After studying painting and sculpture at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris for three years, Wall graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design Dept of Architect and Design, before moving to Copenhagen where he completed his education at post-graduate program of the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen.
About Domeau & Pérès
Both graduates of France’s legendary institution Les Compagnons du Devoir, master craftsmen Bruno Domeau and Philippe Pérès joined forces in the 1990’s to open the now esteemed atelier Domeau & Pérès in Paris. The atelier has garnered worldwide recognition for the acute design perspective and combined craftsmanship expertise of the two masters – both recipients of France’s honoring title of Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres.
A long-kept-secret destination for their meticulous work and comprehensive expertise, Domeau & Pérès have collaborated with countless luminaries such as Marc Newson, Andrée Putman, Pharrel Williams, and Colette in Paris. The studio works on special commissions for clients including Falcon Jet, Hermès, LVMH, Krug, Karl Lagerfeld, Dior, Berluti, the Bridge Club in Bridgehampton, and the Royal Monceau in Paris amongst others.
With guest artists including Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Martin Szekely, Christophe Pillet, Matali Crasset, Pablo Reinoso, and Eric Jourdan, Domeau & Pérès have grown a significant signature collection that belongs to the permanent collection of Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld among others.