Astier de Villatte Creates a Shakespeare and Co. Notebook

Furniture and ceramics designers, Ivan Pericoli and Benoît Astier de Villatte, spend their childhood in the region of Rome, Benoît at the Villa Médicis, and Ivan in the countryside, but they only met at the Beaux Arts academy in Paris. Both paint portraits, draw and received prestigous prizes from the Beaux Arts academy. In 1996, without knowing anything about  “les arts de la table,” they created  their first “dream objects,” furniture and fruit dishes inspired by old objects found at night on the sidewalk, at Emmaüs or at the flea market in Vanves.

Their first stand at the Salon Maison et Objets in 1996 had a wild ambiance and four years later, the famous Boutique Astier de Villatte at 173 rue Saint Honoré opened it's doors on their furniture, dishes, glasses, cups, roman scarves, blankets, but also practical jokes and peepshows.

Their most recent collaboration is a new notepad for Paris' favourite bookshop Shakespeare and Co. Check out their website - it matches the eccentric character of this fabulous Parisian brand.

Boutique Astier de Villatte
173 rue Saint Honoré
75001 Paris

Comments

[The Editor]

definitely one of Paris' most interesting "luxury" brands....

[badaude]

I was just working in one of these notebooks this morning: high-quality thick cream paper (great for drawing); good unusual size (a bit bigger than a moleskine large sketchbook; smaller than an A4; pages a little wider than most books) and gilt-edge pages: what more could you want?