Z x Paris
Now open at 46 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris
We are excited to present our second ZIMMERMANN store in Paris, located on the corner of Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and Rue d'Anjou, extending over two floors of an elegant pre-war building in a neighbourhood that includes the iconic British Embassy and the Jardin des Champs Élysées.
Designed by Studio McQualter, the ground floor boasts plaster walls and Palladiana marble flooring. Each area has its own unique character, with reclaimed timber window displays and modernist furnishings, including Danish elm wood armchairs and art deco side tables. Studio McQualter have carefully selected lighting, such as Philippe Barbier table lamp, an Akari floor lamp and a 1950's Italian chandelier.
The boutique features an array of artwork and vintage pieces. There is a standout Sgraffito mural artwork over the cast concrete staircase, a red vintage lacquered Chinese coromandel screen converted as a wardrobe and other pieces including modernist vases from the likes of Nelly Yassef or Herman Kahler, and paintings by artists like Troy Emery.
'MAKING OF'
SGRAFFITO MURAL ARTWORK
The Saint-Honoré store mural artwork was a fluid creation produced on site over the cast concrete staircase, commissioned by Australian artist Alasdair McLuckie and executed in white and blue Sgraffito by Barcelona artisans, Estucs Orior Garcia. Sgraffito is a decorating technique produced by applying layers of colours then carving through the finish to unveil contrasting images, patterns, colours, and texture. We have previously featured Alasdair's work at the top of the stairs in our Milan store and knew he would be the right fit for the new Paris site because of his graphic and dynamic style.
"My work uses traditional art and craft technique and meticulous process to explore the enduring legacy of modernisms canonized movements, and the dynamic of influence and authenticity more broadly. I think of all my work more and more as collage (a profoundly twentieth century technique) despite what material is actually used to produce the work. As my imagery is inevitably a mash up, a consumption and digestion even, of modernist art history."
Alasdair McLuckie