Collection DIOR Maison X Pierre Yovanovitch celebrates the confluence of two stories

Collection DIOR Maison X Pierre Yovanovitch, born out of a collaboration between Dior and the French atelier Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier, comprises a collection of fifteen homeware and stationary items. The collection was first displayed at St Moritz in Switzerland, as part of NOMAD, the collectible art and design fair. The bespoke pieces that comprise the collection reference the mutual connection that the collaborators share with southern France. While Dior associates with the southern region on account of a property called Château de la Colle Noire that they acquired in the village of Montauroux in the 1950s, Pierre Yovanovitch identifies with the region due to an extensive ten-year-long project that was spearheaded by the designer 65 kms away from Dior’s palatial acquisition.

Apart from the proximity of the two properties associated with the luxury fashion house and the French designer, both Christian Dior and Pierre Yovanovitch have spent significant portions of their lives in the region. Christian Dior would often frequent the Callian plain and Yovanovitch was born in the southern French city of Nice. These overlapping experiences by the collaborators that influenced and enriched their recent collection of homeware items, also inspired the lines and curves that characterise the collection.

Characterised by minimal ostentation, the pieces that form part of the collection are simple, solid and functionally utilitarian. They are unassuming yet they carry a distinct flavour and style that ascribes to Mid-century design sensibilities. Made out of local sustainable materials that satisfy both the extant demands of sustainability as well as the omnipresent demand of timelessness and elegance, the collection is crafted using traditional wood-work and glass-blowing techniques. The collection comprises a mirror, a pencil holder, a trinket tray, two picture frames, two tissue boxes, a cigar tray, four serving trays, a table lamp and two candle holders. Each piece in the collection is finished in a natural wood hue, with limited additions of blue.

Pierre Yovanovitch is an interior designer and fashion designer based in Paris. After an initial stint as a menswear designer for Pierre Cardin, he ventured into the world of architecture and design. Later, he founded his eponymous firm, Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier, in 2001. Yovanovitch brings his extensive experience in the worlds of fashion and architecture together to create designs that reference the haute-couture aesthetic while also implementing superior craftsmanship, materiality and sustainable sourcing efforts in order to create bespoke furniture and lighting products. His designs reference vintage and archaic art and architecture elements while also ascribing to refined and minimalist aesthetics that help create a refined and unpretentious set of products or space.