Incollect Magazine - Issue 4

2023 Incollect Magazine 27 In the living room of a Cali, Columbia residence belonging to luxury accessories designer Nancy Gonzales, a mesmerizing large-scale photograph by German artist Candida Höefer is used to create a sense of depth and dimension against the pure white walls. Denoit does not often work with white walls but his client loved the idea, so he added textured finishes in horsehair, parchment and woven natural fibers to articulate the surfaces. A pair of coffee tables designed by Yves Klein in 1961 in the Monogold version, filled with 3,000 sheets of individually crumpled and place gold leaf, and the International Klein Blue version, filled with intense ultramarine pigment powder appear to hover in front of a long white sofa. Coveted works of collectible design, a pair of gilt bronze Crocoseat chairs are by the late Claude Lalanne, one half of the design superstar team known as Les Lalannes. The Crocodile series of pieces, which include a console, armchair, bench, and banquette achieved their startlingly lifelike texture due to the use of an actual crocodile carcass for the casts, obtained from the Paris Zoo. At the left of the sofa is a 1950s design floor lamp by Gaetano Scolari for Stilnovo, at the other end, a midcentury floor lamp with a tray balances the composition. Atop the coffee tables, sculptural forms of gold pre-Colombian jewelry float on lucite stands. Photo: Anita Calero Jean-Louis Deniot: Destinations by Pamela Golbin and Jean-Louis Deniot, © Rizzoli New York, 2022