Pierre Bergian

Mayfair Drawing Room, London

2020

It took interior designer Howard Slatkin 33 months to recreate an 18th century European palace in an Upper East Side co-op. Set on the 14th floor of the...

While Jayne Wrightman’s taste was universally recognized as exquisite—she was a peerless collector and long served as a trustee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—the society grande dame and philanthropist chose to work with Parisian decorators Maison Jansen upon acquiring her palatial Fifth Avenue home. In fact, Jansen had already started; the apartment’s previous owner, private dealer Renée de Becker, had brought them in. Wrightsman and husband Charles continued with Jansen; upon principal Stephane Boudin’s death, they began working with Henri Samuel, thus beginning a long association. While the bones of the room owe much to Jansen, the decoration—the colors, the upholstery, and most of the furnishings—are Samuel. Shown here is the sprawling 31-foot-by-21-foot drawing...

A five-bedroom, pale blue-and-turquoise country house located an hour and a half southwest of Paris, Maison de Lèves served as a lifelong laboratory for France’s maîtresse of interio...

When it came to decorating his residences, haute-couture iconoclast Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) was known for committing completely to a given style—and then dispensing with it. Follo...

Thirty pigeon holes Ron Piller is a beautiful, contemporary painting with a mix of mediums: Acrylic, Gloss Medium Varnish on Canvas. It's strong colors and geometry with white, red a...

this is oil on wood panel with a rough sandy textured surface . it comes ready to hang with a black frame that nicey complements the color scheme

A majestic miniature painting by Victor Mongodin. Painted with extraordinary detail, it depicts a pretty young lady writing a letter in her boudoir. Mongodin clearly delights in painting fabrics... the silk of her skirt, the cotton of her camisole, as well as the luxurious velvets of the curtains and drapery. And then there is the mystery: who is she writing to? Born in Vire in Normandy in 1819, Victor Mongodin had studied with de Rudder. Working in the French Capital...

This painting depicts a whimsical portrait of a young boy with light brown hair against a viridian green background. The piece is done in a highly impressionistic manner and is a won...