Chair, 1992 Garouste et Bonetti
Desk and chair, Blome residence 1992 
Grand bureau, 1987 Garouste et Bonetti
Belgravia cabinet 1989, Elisabeth Garouste
Kawakubo chest, 1994 Elisabeth Garouste
Table 'Abyss' , 2004 Mattia Bonetti
I first encountered the design team* of Garouste et Bonetti on my first decorating project. It was love at first sight. I adore the artisanal. I found their neo-barbaric pieces captivating and timeless, not unlike Bronze Age artefacts. Alas, nothing lasts forever, Garouste et Bonetti have gone their separate ways. Mattia Bonetti and Elisabeth Garouste now work separately; their individual perspectives are now more evident.
Unfortunately those who love this type of work, seem to do so exclusively. I prefer to see these works as part of a greater whole (i.e. the David Whitney Collection), rather than as merely a display of artisanal furniture.
*This is a correction of the previous information that Garouste et Bonetti were a husband and wife team. Which was a surprise to me as I thought until a few years ago they were both women.
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Tuesday 12 February 2008
Garouste et Bonetti
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7 comments:
Love the Belgravia chest... what fun!
Garouste and Bonetti were never married. He is the longtime husband of French shelter-magazine editor Isabelle Forestier. And according to the 2002 International Who's Who, Garouste is the wife of the French painter Gérard Garouste; they married in 1970 and have two sons.
Do you remember the CRAZY apartment G&B did in Hong Kong? It was published in Nest. God that was nuts and wonderful too, though I couldn't sit still in it for a moment. It would make me require tranquilizers.
AL - thanks for the correction. I thought it might be wrong.
https://www.nationaltrust.org/news/2006/090806_Whitney.pdf
AL - that is the very place I was thinking of when I wrote the statement re an artisanal display! Gorgeous, but too gallery like.
Yes, the Sotheby's info is wrong; I know Bonetti's wife, spent a lovely weekend with her in Tunisia, and they've been married for 20 years or more too ...
thanks for this- their work is what inspired me to return to design school, way back when.
i couldn't agree more about the setting in which the works are displayed- too much one of kind makes for an eye-searing experience where nothing appears special; yet integrated into a more familiar environment, the pieces stand out like jewels.
last, if i had a biological child, i might sell him/her for a belgravia cabinet... ;-)
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