{"id":6142,"date":"2016-04-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/?p=6142"},"modified":"2016-04-13T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:00:00","slug":"french-decorator-madeleine-castaing-gets-her-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/interior-design\/french-decorator-madeleine-castaing-gets-her-due","title":{"rendered":"French Decorator Madeleine Castaing Gets Her Due"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wildly beloved and relatively unknown, legendary designer Madeleine Castaing<\/strong><\/em> finally gets her due. Madeleine Castaing was a French antique dealer and interior designer. Original, even whimsical, she revolutionized the world of decoration, creating the style Castaing which is now a reference.<\/p>\n

The romantic work of the french decorating legend is now captivating a new generation.\u00a0Her work \u2014 often inspired by the novels of Marcel Proust and Honor\u00e9 de Balzac \u2014 has influenced everyone from decorator Jacques Grange to fashion designer Anna Sui.<\/p>\n

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In the history of style, she is as important as it gets and she still beguiles and seduces. Ms. Castaing\u2019s use of color is one of the few perceptible influences on the otherwise sui generis<\/em> work of English decorator David Hicks.\u00a0The genius of Madeleine Castaing\u2019s rooms is very hard to decode, though. Like all truly successful decoration, the magic comes from the flower of the combination, rather than the individual parts.<\/p>\n

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Her love of late-19th-century furniture was groundbreaking. For 50 years, her Paris shop was a stage for her ideas and an unforgettable source of inspiration for those not too intimidated to go inside. Her fabric line is still sold today. As for her character\u2026 Well, you could love her just for her wig with the elastic chin strap and false eyelashes.<\/p>\n

The American manufacturer Brunschwig & Fils, which distributed select Castaing fabrics during her lifetime but stopped for a while, has put the line \u2014 now encompassing matching wallpapers \u2014 back into its showrooms, confident that the patterns\u2019 bravado will connect with a new audience. \u201cMadeleine Castaing brought a unique sense of color and whimsy to her rooms,\u201d observes Stephen Elrod, the firm\u2019s executive vice president and creative director. \u201cThe iconic fabrics she created possess a bold graphic quality that plays into today\u2019s bohemian and individualistic trend in interior design.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brunschwig & Fils is once again stocking Edmond Petit\u2019s Madeleine Castaing collection, including, from left, Rayure Castiglione and Rayure Fleurie fabrics, Feuillage wallpaper (shown in two colorways), and Lola Montez wallpaper border.<\/p>\n

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Mixture of types and moods against the current, the \u201cCastaing style\u201d inspires today more than ever: Jean-Paul Beaujard in New York, Jacques Grange and the St James Hotel in Paris as well as Harrods and its Ladur\u00e9e tearoom in London. Ladur\u00e9e, which is now established in the Madeleine Castaing shop in St-Germain-des-Pr\u00e9s, uses its fabrics in its shops around the world, from Milan to Tokyo.<\/p>\n

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One of the most important aspects of Madeleine Castaing\u2019s decoration was her love of color \u2014 rich colors in exotic combinations \u2014 and its potential to evoke history and atmosphere. That is very obvious in this Madeleine Castaing inspired suite at Saint James Paris.<\/p>\n

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With the relauching of Edmond Petit\u2019s Madeleine Castaing collection, the french designer will once again be inspiration for everyone of us. Hopefully it really will connect with a new audience and the interior style will be available for long.<\/p>\n

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