On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2025, Yves Salomon Editions presents a new body of work by the Parisian artist and designer Pierre Marie — a 17-piece collection of unique intarsia shearling objects and limited-edition soft furnishings all made in the brand’s Paris ateliers. This partnership represents the brand’s second project in the collectible design space, following a landmark debut in 2024 in collaboration with the historic French furniture maker Pierre Chapo Création. “Our new department, Yves Salomon Editions, is our way to create a bridge between design and fashion.” says Yves Salomon. “After working with Pierre Chapo Création, we fell in love with Pierre Marie’s universe, with his drawings, with this eclecticism that spans everything from Art Nouveau to Memphis and beyond. We really matched with him and wanted to be able to give him a blank canvas so that he could work on the savoir-faire of the house while also challenging the workshops with the complexity of his drawings.”
Unveiled in the covered medieval courtyard of the via Santo Spirito 7 in the heart of Milan, the whimsical collection consists of seats, blankets, stools, cushions and a lamp that each radiate with Pierre Marie’s singular ornamental vision brought to life with meticulous craftsmanship. Considering the origin story of sheepskin as a material and its inherent link with humankind for millennia, a bucolic narrative of heaven and earth unfolds across two themes: “La Prairie” and “Le Firmament”. In the former, a flourish of looped ribbons and bows, geometric leaves and blossoms weaves across a magical meadow, whilst the latter looks upward to the heavens, depicting a sky blanketed with western stars, striped beads and curls of paisley.
The collection’s two hero pieces are a figurative homage — a pair of intarsia chairs entirely upholstered in Spanish merino shearling that, to the artist, represents a child-like memory of the sheep itself. “It's a symbol of childhood, a symbol of innocence, of purity,” says Pierre Marie, in a playful nod to the figurative practice of François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, the sophisticated toy furniture of Renate Muller, and the innocent experimentation of the late, great Gaetano Pesce. Entirely upholstered in a complex intarsia, they appear nestled in a border of green grass, as their resplendent shearling surface forms a seamless whole from 1,200 individual pieces in a warm palette of natural tones, from dark peach and honey to cornflower blue, olive, chocolate, aubergine, lilac and chartreuse. “For me, the material dictated the design. It was important that there were no visible materials other than shearling. I wanted everything to be seamless to really highlight the savoir-faire of Yves Salomon and their workshops.”