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Article: Directoire his way. (the Paris duplex of French designer Frederic Mechiche)
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- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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Like the legendary dealer-decorator Madeleine Castaing before him, French designer Frederic Mechiche lives in a Directoire world of his own making and says to hell with historical correctness. Period rooms at the expense of an important collection of modern and ethnic art? You must be thinking of someone else.
While Castaing's many decades of imaginative Directoire decorating first took shape at her landmark country house outside Chartres in the 1920s, the Mechiche equivalent has been developing for just a couple of years in a seven-room Paris duplex. Crisply drawn lines, sharply defined forms, the kind of fat eye-popping stripes identified with military tents, a ...