Hotel olivier lapidus biography

  • Olivier Lapidus, a fashion designer turned interior designer who is perhaps most well known for designing Hotel Félicien.
  • I recently got to sit down with the eponymous Olivier Lapidus, in the lobby of his newly-designed Parisian hotel, the 4* Hotel Félicien.
  • 59-year-old Olivier Lapidus is the son of the famed French designer Edmond Lapidus and his wife Jeanne.

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    TRACEY EMIN

    Once called the “enfant terrible” of the ung British Artists, Tracey Emin’s confessional, autobiographical work fearlessly intimates that the artist is here to stay.


    Portrait and Studio Photography by Oli Kearon | Interview bygd Sarah Nicole Prickett

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    In a beautiful new compendium entitled TRACEY EMIN: WORKS 2007-2017  by: Jonathan Jones, published bygd Rizzoli International Publications, we can view a decade’s worth of work of the prolific and inimitable Tracey Emin. Compiled in close collaboration with the artist and unprecedented in its scope, this definitive book collects ten years of Tracey Emin’s drawings, paintings, sculptures, appliques and embroideries, neons, video stills, and installations. A multimedia artist whose intensely anställda work blurs the boundaries between art and life, Emin remains one of the most highly publicized contemporary British artists and continues to stir as much controversy as she has acclaim. A multimedia artist who

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    Olivier Lapidus

    I met Olivier Lapidus while preparations were underway for the EQUIPHOTEL Salon. Olivier is a fashion designer, an interior designer, an inventor, and a key figure in the conception of hotels.

    As part of the EQUIPHOTEL 2014, he will be preparing the room studio suite 302, which I encourage you to visit on “Couture Night.” You’ll be able to try out the suite amid a nocturnal ambiance where the light will take on all the fullness of its meaning. He will be showcasing the full noble qualities of the craftsman and bringing in all the necessary technology installed specifically for the comfort and well-being of the client. A room full of contrasts, it will serve as a source of inspiration and a new “haute couture” vision of hotel design.

    How did you find yourself interested in hotel design?

    I’ve spent a great deal of my professional life in hotels. First there was Tokyo, where I was able to stay two to three months in the Hilton, which has since become the Capitol T

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    Interview with Olivier Lapidus, designer of Hotel Felicien Paris

    I recently got to sit down with the eponymous Olivier Lapidus, in the lobby of his newly-designed Parisian hotel, the 4* Hotel Félicien.

    Just behind me, hanging in the windows,  were the curtains made from his illuminated textiles, a design that originated with this man, born with the famous name. The textiles are woven optical fibers and continually migrate through a million colors, propelled by LED battery tubes, the first ones of their kind in the world.

    « Light is my primary material », explains the designer, who himself has migrated through several design incarnations, over several decades and several continents.

    Raised by the father who designed for and clothed The Beatles, it is only natural that an eye for textiles and creativity would be in this man’s genetics. And what he can rightfully claim as his very own is a desire to push the envelope on all fronts, to achieve what he refers to as an

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