FEBRUARY MARCH 2023 / TOULOUSE AND ITS CREATIVE VIBRATIONS / Béatrice Pontacq, Painter by Virginie Bertrand Valorso, photos Pierrick Verny
FROM THE MOST SHARP TO THE MOST ECLECTIC, THEIR PROPOSALS ARE ENCHANTING. THE DESIGNER ANTOINE VIGNAULT HAS GATHERED AT THE OAK GALLERY A SELECTION OF CONTEMPORARY CREATORS OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY, AROUND RADICAL PIECES, SCULPTURES, PAINTINGS, FURNITURE, LIGHTING.
EMMANUELLE VIDAL IS A GALLERY OWNER, EXPERT IN FURNITURE FROM THE 1950S TO 1970S. SHE DESIGNED HOTELS AS WELL AS PRIVATE INTERIORS. BOTH HAVE AS A COMMON DENOMINATOR AESTHETICS AND THE TASTE FOR BEAUTIFUL THINGS. TOGETHER, THE RENEWAL OF THE FORMER ANTIQUE DEALERS’ DISTRICT.
INSPIRED SELECTION
Thirty-two designers and artists interact in Antoine Vignault’s apartment-gallery. Yesterday, director of the furniture collection at Élitis, he launched in 2013 a gathering of creators like no other. Singular personalities are staged at home, online, but also with decorators: Jacques Grange, Jean-Louis Deniot, Serge Castella, Nate Berkus, Alex Papachristidis, Fox-Nahem, Frank de Biasi, Robert Couturier, Nicole Hollis, Studio Reed, Studio Indigo, Tony Ingrao, who follow him today.
“I started presenting my own creations at Patrick Fourtin in Paris, then I wanted to found my own creative studio, to work around the search for the Sacred in contemporary creation.”
OAK GALLERY – ONEOFAKIND
A new gallery will open in the spring in collaboration, for the vintage part, with Emmanuelle Vidal.
Furniture by Antoine Vignault, Lighting by Nicolas Aubagnac, Paintings by Béatrice Pontacq, Ceramics by Pierre Casenove and Béatriz Garrigo, sculptures by Clotilde Ancarani