‘I have to be very honest, the first person I thought of was Oscar Niemeyer,’ Louboutin confessed at the time. When it came to designing the packaging for his debut fragrance, Christian Louboutin admits that Thomas Heatherwick was not at the top of his list. A heavy metal armature frames a glass container, with a chunky clip-on cap through which you can thread a braided Hermès-orange leather cord (in a nice touch, the cord comes in its own separate envelope). The bottle, the off-centre label (again, based on the 1930 design) and the cheerily coloured box are all carefully considered, and make a pleasing contrast to the often trashy packaging that all too many big brands are guilty of. Hermès really pulled the stops out for the bottle: based on the shape of a rider’s stirrup, it’s inspired by archival bottles that were given out at the opening of the first Hermès store in New York in 1930. ‘Galop d’Hermès’ was the second scent that perfumer Christine Nagel created since she took over as in-house Hermès ‘nose’ from the much-lauded Jean-Claude Ellena (her first was ‘Eau de Rhubarbe Ecarlate’, launched in February 2016), and it’s an attractive fragrance based on the unusual combination of leather, Damask rose and an ingredient not much used in perfumery – quince. Everything from the weight volume, to the transparency of a glass bottle should affect how you experience the fragrance inside.’ ![]() Each moving part is essential to the overall feel. ‘For me, creating a bottle is like designing a watch. ‘Though it might not seem like it, this was a more complex design process than my two previous Cire Trudon projects,’ Deltour offers. The bottle underneath is daringly simple, resembling the silhouette of Cire Trudon’s classic scented candles. Rendered in the maison’s signature pine-green hue, the cap is finished in textural rippled-glass. ‘We thought of everything down to the kind of reflection the sticker would produce on the bottle’s reverse, and the texture of the screw-top.’ ‘We talked a lot about tiny details – something that doesn’t really happen in the glass bottle industry,’ she explains. To tackle the brief, French industrial designer Pauline Deltour made a ‘giant mood board of historical and contemporary coloured glass references’, and presented prototypes to study groups. It’s more tactile and you have a thumb action instead, but to develop that was was an absolute mission.’įor its first foray into perfume, creative director of candle celebrant Cire Trudon, Julien Pruvost, wanted a fragrance bottle that ‘could have been here 400 years, but was actually made yesterday’. ‘Instead of squirting the bottle with your index finger, we decided it should be shaped more like a pebble. ‘Its probably the smallest thing we’ve designed – and the most challenging,’ explains Macintosh. Never revealed, until now, the fragrance bottle is the ultimate in bespoke olfactory pursuit. ‘We spent 18 months developing this beautiful bottle in various glass colours, which was refillable, and we worked with Consuela for the scent as well as the packaging, glass, everything.’ ‘It nearly launched until Consuelo decided she loved it so much she didn’t want the public to have it,’ explains Mitchell. During that time, Sybarite founders Torquil McIntosh and Simon Mitchell also lent their design-eye to a fragrance bottle – but it never hit the shelves, as Marni founder Consuelo Castiglioni chose to keep it for her own private collection. Sybarite – the studio behind Marni’s global retail identity between 20 – designed 250 stores worldwide, from Tokyo to Los Angeles. We have services and procedures in place to make your acquisition process both enjoyable and efficient.Bespoke bottle, by Sybarite, for Consuelo Castiglioni, undated Whether you are just starting your collection, adding to an existing collection or even decorating your home, our team’s knowledge and experience can assist you in your endeavor. And, because our network of contacts spans generations, we are often able to acquire pieces that may have otherwise never been available on the market. Our clients can be certain that each and every piece in our gallery has been hand-selected and carefully vetted for authenticity, condition and provenance. ![]() Our commitment to curating the world’s most extraordinary and beautiful treasures has remained steadfast and our acquisition philosophy is simple: seek out and acquire only the very finest works whose provenance, beauty and rarity set them apart from all others. Rau has been recognized as a leader in the antiques industry and today our collections of rare silver, furniture, clocks, porcelain, glass and objets d'art are second to none.
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