Muriel Grateau Gallery – Paris
Addicted To Retail (ATR) presents: Muriel Grateau Gallery in Paris, France.
Muriel Grateau must be the most coveted dinner guest in all of Paris: instead of arriving at your door with the usual potted plant or, god forbid, a distressed bunch of flowers, her go-to hostess gift is a brilliant bouquet of linen napkins! This unrivalled colorist – who, by the way, likes to dress in all-black – has been making beautifully understated table linen in 100 different colors for the past 20 years.
But let’s take things from the top: looking back on her long and varied career, you’d be tempted to say that Grateau – who ended up in fashion by divine intervention – was a spirit marked by contradiction. A rebellious aesthete, who simply liked to revolt for revolution’s sake if you like. But that’s where you’d be wrong: each and every one of her little revolutions – making her own clothes when ready-to-wear was still a pipe dream, showing her collections in Milan when everybody was rushing off to Florence or using precious metals only to bury them under coats of enamel – was brilliantly calculated and way ahead of its time. All she had to do was merely wait for the rest of the world to catch up.
Her new locale in the Palais Royal gardens united all her different ventures under one roof, like opening a window on her multi-faceted soul. Accessories, flat knits and pristine white shirts sat right next to multi-colored linens, objects and tableware for the first time in retail history. Through the passage of time, she refined her range and changed her address, taking advantage of the natural synergy between high fashion and home décor. And so it came about that the Muriel Grateau Gallery became exclusively dedicated to fine jewelry and jewelry-like tableware, recently refurbished and unveiled to the public on 19 September 2012, in an all-white environment.
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2012-10-21 11:29:19
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