A room can reveal more about a person than a portrait ever could. For interior designer and scenographer Ellie Peugeot, whose work moves between London and Paris, collecting is less about ownership than atmosphere: the tension between history and modernity, restraint and play, memory and reinvention. Moving through works by Alberto Giacometti, Jean-Michel Frank and other defining names of 20th-century design, she reflects on the emotional charge objects carry long after they leave their original homes.
Set against a richly layered naturalistic backdrop, the conversation drifts through Art Deco craftsmanship, surrealist forms and the quiet confidence of great interiors. There is patina, lacquer, bronze, silver leaf and the strange magic of pieces that seem to hold time inside them. The result feels less like a tour of collectible design and more like an intimate philosophy of living with art.
This spring, the Important Design sale is cast in a new light: curated by Ellie Peugeot, with exhibition design conceived in collaboration with Thierry Boutemy as an immersive journey into a dreamlike garden, presented by Velocity Black.
