This booth was born from a simple conviction: the finest creations speak to one another across time, regardless of the era in which they were made. With this presentation, Victor Gastou continues a line of inquiry pursued over several years — one centered on the codes of luxury and contemporary elegance. A search informed as much by the classicism of the great decorators of the 1930s as by the freedom of Italian radical design in the 1980s, with a constant determination to root that inheritance in the present.

Philippe Hiquily’s signature hammered brass meets an exceptional boiserie in oak wood, designed by Jean-Michel Frank for Guerlain, and presented by Féau Boiseries. Answering this ensemble is a piece by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova, alongside works by Irene Cattaneo, whose organic vocabulary brings a distinctly contemporary resonance. A table by Emmanuel Jonckers, combining raw black leather and engraved brass, also signals the emergence of a new decorative language — situated somewhere between sophistication and radicality. The ensemble is set beneath the gaze of Raymond Delamarre’s figures representing human knowledge, as a reminder of the enduring permanence of certain aesthetic values across time.

More than an assembly of works, this stand asserts a vision. One of a luxury that rests neither on accumulation nor on effect, but on the precision of dialogues. One of a sensibility capable of bringing Jean-Michel Frank, Sottsass, Hiquily, Delamarre, Jonckers and Cattaneo into coexistence — without hierarchy, without nostalgia.