After first partnering with Chapo Créations in 2024, Yves Salomon Éditions kickstarts a new adventure with an ensemble of pieces created with Dimorestudio, freely echoing the works of Carlo Bugatti.
It all began with an encounter over a shared passion. A year ago, Yves Salomon and his wife Tamara Taichman, both of them design enthusiasts and collectors, met Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci, founders of Dimorestudio. A creative spark was ignited from the get go, and an aesthetic affinity soon led to a desire to develop a project together. After discovering a common curiosity for Carlo Bugatti’s sculptural furnishings and unique pieces blending carpentry and parchment, they set on the idea of designing a collection of contemporary creations, conceived as an open dialogue with the Italian master’s style vocabulary.
The experimental, playful material contrasts that define Bugatti’s work are of great interest to both Yves Salomon Éditions and Dimorestudio. Thus, the collaboration is rife with juxtapositions of metal and leatherware - ranging from leather to shearling and recycled fur. Adhering to the ornamentalist aesthetic cherished by Bugatti, Dimorestudio ideates suspension systems and trimmings in mink. But the main focus stays on intarsia, the artisanal technique that assembles contrasting fur samples to form decorative motifs akin to wood inlay, only in lamb leather, mink and alpaca.
Five different kinds of seats are presented in Milan this April, each with its own unique kaleidoscopic design, evoking both Art déco, 1950s futurism and 1970s glam through a postmodern lens. These whimsical creations are in conversation with Bugatti’s own historic pieces in a layout staged by Dimorestudio’s interior designer duo. To complete Yves Salomon Édition’s second collection, a series of new design proposals will also be unveiled next October in Paris.
Introducing Yves Salomon Éditions
collection by Dimorestudio five reference pieces.
Chaise A. Over a minimal seat basis crafted from metallic material, an intarsia seat cover and back panel are showcased, featuring lamb shearling sourced from a vintage coat.
Divan B. A minimal-design seat, back panel, and armrests with a steel and brass structure are dressed up in recycled mink intarsia. Its one-of-a-kind motif, playfully contrasting two different tones, is showcased over its seat cover and back panel, while ornamental mink fringes hang from the armrests.
Chaise C. This chair is structured around a metal mesh seat elevated over a steel bar mikado. Mink fringes punctuated by gold-plated brass ornaments glide from the chair’s front. The headrest is crafted from shearling.
Fauteuil D. A shearling hammock-style seat is suspended over a Sputnik structure made of eglomise steel rods circling a golden brass sphere, reminiscent of a butterfly chair. A lamb leather headrest completes this luxurious armchair.
Méridienne E. A black lacquered chaise longue is covered in Mongolian lamb and alpaga intarsia, conceived as a kind of leather inlay and repurposed from a recycled coat. This mobile seat is complete with wheels on the front and a leather handle behind its back panel, to be easily moved.
Yves Salomon Éditions
Yves Salomon Éditions is the new design departement of Yves Salomon. It adheres to the rich heritage and know-how that have always defined Maison’s ateliers when it comes to the treatment of noble materials including leather, shearling and recycled fur.
With a history spanning more than a century, this family-run Maison known for its luxury ready-to-wear is now also involved in collectible design. After an initial success in 2024 through a collaboration with Chapo Créations blending wood work and shearling intarsia, Yves Salomon Éditions now offer each year a collection of furniture pieces and accessories crafted by an invited designer, under the creative direction of Marcellin Boyer.
Dimorestudio
The word “Dimore” means dwelling in Italian. The founders of this architecture and interior design studio, American-born Britt Moran and Italian-born Emilio Salci, take on residential, retail and hospitality projects as well as furniture, textile and lighting fixtures design. Proponents of understated tonalities and dreamy atmospheres, they bring a lived-in touch to the spaces they revisit. Since the studio’s debut in 2003, the Milan-based duo has been celebrated for its timeless, trend-transcending take on décor, making of the juxtaposition between vintage
pieces from Italy’s foremost designers and their own creations a truly unique signature.
Carlo Bugatti (1856 - 1940)
Parchment, brass and blackened wood mixed with orientalist-inspired motifs: that’s Carlo Bugatti’s unmistakeable signature. The Italian decorator, designer and manufacturer crafted his pieces of furniture as works of art, always starting his process with clay or plaster models. Although often associated with the Art Nouveau movement, his creations stand out for their architectural structures in circular, arched, concentrical and radiating shapes. Initiated into the arts by his father, a sculptor, Bugatti was then formed at the Brera Academy, then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, and worked for a while in Milan before ultimately moving to France. His atelier produced both furniture and jewelry.