Perhaps the flourish that best conveys how Casiraghi and Daguzan embraced an origin story for the home is the series of shallow, squared-off floor-to-ceiling matte metal columns - they resemble chic ventilation shafts - built along the room’s walls. “Sometimes you fall in love with a Picasso,” says Casiraghi, “and sometimes it’s just a shape.” The vintage Florence Knoll dining table is surrounded by deep green lacquered half-barrel chairs by Hoffmann and, on one wall, near a pair of Deco club chairs reupholstered in marigold wool, hang two huge wooden box sculptures, picked up at the flea market. Using waist-high bookshelves as subtle room dividers, Casiraghi broke the space into a living room and dining area with an open kitchen the floors throughout are covered in coco matting, then layered with Chinese Art Deco carpets. Gargantuan lanterns, produced by the Austrian company Woka according to Josef Hoffmann’s original 1917 design for the fabric department of the Wiener Werkstätte, hang from the 15-foot ceilings, creating a souklike intimacy. On the wall that joins the two levels, there’s a 6.5-by-10-foot tapestry in shades of ocher, black, marigold and maroon made in the 1950s from an original design by the Spanish Surrealist Joan Miró it evokes the 1928 oversize Fernand Léger canvas that Saint Laurent placed in the salon of his 1970s-era apartment on the Rue de Babylone. The main floor, up a steep open staircase, is even more dramatic because of its high-ceilinged vastness and its evocation of the past century’s most glamorous periods. Paco Rabanne, owned by the Spanish conglomerate Puig, has thrived under Daguzan’s leadership, with the 39-year-old creative director Julien Dossena, who arrived eight years ago, often showing colorful clothing embellished with metal and plastic elements that evoke the intergalactic playfulness of the label’s early days. While today’s fashion futurism tends to be dystopian - somber cloaks, thigh-high black latex boots - the Basque-born Rabanne envisioned the world to come as groovy and expansive.īastien Daguzan, 37, who has been the chief executive of Paco Rabanne for four and a half years (the founder, 87, retired in 2000), is an optimist, too, both by nature and as a result of his early success raised in France’s rural southwest, he became the managing director of Christophe Lemaire’s namesake company before he turned 30.
His chain-mail halter tops and micro-mini shifts strung together from metallic paillettes reflected the dream of a cleaner, cheerier planet - either ours or one far away. THE 1960S CLOTHING designer Paco Rabanne was an unrepentant optimist.
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