LIMATHO
DESIGNER
LILOU GRUMBACH
MARQUAND
Lilou Grumbach Marquand
Ever a passionate, hence generous observer of the arts, Diane von Furstemberg has chosen to introduce Lilou Marquand to New York: her work will be on view at Diane von Furstenberg’s Studio.
For fifteen years, Lilou Marquand had the privilege of being Mademoiselle Chanel’s closest collaborator. In the proximity of the « grande dame » of couture, known for her refined sense of color and her flawless eye for details, Lilou Marquand’s own sensibility quickly developed.
So it came as no surprise when she turned her apartment into a studio of her own. Not to create clothes, however.
Hers was to explore another aspect of the world of textiles: she began by making shutters of blinds – strange words indeed for designating her luminous, expansive créations.
Expansion, in fact, is the key to Lilou Marquand’s work. It is implied by her great, twofold obsession: lightness and light. And so, after the blinds, came the screens, and after the screens, the tents. But is « tent » really the right word for these veil-like constructions, combining timeless and modern materials, quivering with subtle echoes of India, Turkey, Africa or Japan ? Names pin one down and nomads don’t like to be cornered. So let us call them « spaces » - spaces that can bed down anywhere, in our bedroom, on our terrace, by the fireplace.
But wherever they alight, the shelter they offer us will be the color of our dreams.
Nadine Trintignant
Inside Lauren Santo Domingo’s Southampton Retreat
