As our residency at Galeries Lafayette draws to a close, we wanted to share the work of Sara Brajovic, our Paris based Collaborator on the project.
Step into our space at Galeries Lafayette and you enter a lived‑in idea - a Ligurian‑leaning apartment composed with the restraint we value and the intimacy Sara Brajovic curates so well. Paris‑based, raised across Europe, and trained in History at King’s College London, Sara approaches design like a scholar with a collector’s intuition. Her world - Taramis, an appointment‑only salon near the Champs‑Élysées - privileges context over spectacle. For our French debut, she framed the room around four precise touchpoints of Italian craft.
Willy Rizzo - the Alveo coffee table
Photographer turned designer, Rizzo’s furniture captures cinema’s cool logic - crisp, functional, and quietly indulgent. The Alveo coffee table anchors the seating zone: lacquered geometry trimmed with metal at the corners and a recessed stainless‑steel well at its centre. It can chill a bottle, hold flowers, or simply reflect light - a simple trick with an urbane payoff. Originally retailed by Mario Sabot in the early 1970s, the model remains a collector’s reflex because it reads as both tool and trophy.
Luigi Saccardo - round dining table for Arrmet / Maison Jansen
Saccardo’s round table is sculpture first, furniture second - four concave brushed‑steel fins locked around a cross brace, carrying a smoked glass disc with a discreet black underlayer. Designed in Italy and distributed in France by Maison Jansen, it speaks the language of the era without shouting it: industrial, architectural, ceremonial. It is the surface where conversations slow down and the eye rests on contour and proportion.
Mario Bellini - the velvet sofas
Bellini’s modular seating is modernity with a soft voice - generous forms that invite movement, reconfiguration, and ease. In this setting, the velvet reads like tailored sportswear: relaxed, technical, and quietly plush. His Camaleonda concept from 1970 is the reference point - a system designed to be composed and recomposed as life shifts. That logic underpins why Bellini still feels current - the design is about living, not posing.
Murano - rostrato glass, handmade in Venice
On the table, a rostrato vase brings Venetian texture into play. The technique - a field of hand‑pulled spikes formed hot, prism by prism - was developed on Murano and refined by masters such as Ercole Barovier. The result catches light like cut stone, adding a tactility that offsets the steel and lacquer around it. It is craft as surface architecture.
Juliana Lima Vasconcellos - the triangle chairs
Completing the composition, Brazilian architect‑designer Juliana Lima Vasconcellos places geometry in dialogue with comfort. Her Tri Chair explores circle, rectangle and triangle in solid wood and velvet - a poised study in line and mass that sits naturally with Saccardo’s steel and Rizzo’s rigor. The piece has earned international recognition for exactly that purity.
Together, these works sketch the Brett Johnson man’s apartment - disciplined, materially literate, global in perspective. Nothing is decorative for decoration’s sake. Each choice earns its place.
Visit
As our final weekend at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann L’Homme, Paris, approaches, explore our SS25 collection alongside the Parfum Triptych - Côte de Ramatuelle, Monsieur Chic, and Oud Raffiné - within Sara’s composed setting. The last chance to reserve private appointments, available for clients who prefer time and quiet.
